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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
most dangerous cities in the United
States for this list we mainly based our
rankings on the FBI’s latest statistics
on violent crimes which include murder
aggravated assault rape and robberies
however while many of these cities are
at a low point in their histories
there’s nowhere to go but up so
hopefully they’ll see their fortunes
turn soon number 10 Atlanta Georgia
dubbed the capital of the new south
Atlanta is home to global headquarters
of mega corporations like coca-cola the
Home Depot and UPS as well as the cable
news network CNN aside from its rep as a
hub for business Atlanta is a
cosmopolitan hotspot with fancy
restaurants and a hip nightlife but it
isn’t all rainbows and unicorns in
Georgia’s capital either the thug life
of putting your life and risk at all
times it’s located along several popular
drug trafficking routes which means
Atlanta’s violent crime rate has
historically sat well above the national
average it’s not for money anymore it’s
not for the gang anymore just people
going out just don’t leave feel like
doing at the time it’s not any
organization to it at all
however those rates did drop
significantly in the first decade of the
2000s so hopefully it won’t be on this
list for long number nine
Baltimore Maryland Maryland’s largest
city is rich in history culture the arts
and crime thirteen days into our new
year and sixteen people have already
been killed here in our city in June
2013
Baltimore saw a record 28 shootings and
10 homicides in just five days in August
the following year stray bullets from
violent disputes in both Baltimore and
nearby Prince George’s County killed
three three-year-old children as opposed
to other violent cities that have seen a
recent decline in murder rates Baltimore
saw a 7.3 percent hike in homicides in
2013 plagued by drugs and poverty be
more figures prominently among the most
crime-ridden cities in America with all
this killing we ain’t provide nothing
only thing we providing is message to
show our youth that this world is factly
destroying itself number eight
birmingham alabama we have breaking news
now we are getting some information on
the victims from yesterday’s shooting at
ups described as the cradle of the civil
rights movement Birmingham is Alabama’s
largest metropolis once a booming
industrial center of the South
Birmingham eventually saw roughly 25% of
its population living below the poverty
line which is approximately double the
national average that high poverty rate
paired with the ever-present drug trade
has kept the crime rate up to the point
where its crime rate is one of the
highest in the country regardless of the
city size crime tape marks the murder
scene near the loading dock through this
door the dead man in an employee only
corridor connecting to the kitchen while
those rates have gone down in the last
few years they are still way higher than
the national average number seven
Memphis Tennessee home of the Blues
barbecue and Graceland Memphis also has
a huge criminal culture crazy hell you
could just see someone one day and then
the next day they’re gone with over 180
gangs in the area including Gangster
Disciples
Crips Bloods la raza nation and ms-13
Memphis is plagued with serious gang
violence but dubious distinction for
West Tennessee tonight more dirty cops
are busted here than anywhere else in
the country ad corruption in the police
force to the mix with an average of 20
police officers arrested yearly since
2009 on various charges including DUI
extortion drug trafficking sexual
solicitation and more and it’s not
surprising that Memphis figures on the
FBI’s most dangerous cities list year
after year he’s on video counting cash a
bribe investigators say number six
Chicago Illinois hook
County Sheriff Sargent pumping gas
suddenly three men in hoodies approached
him one man displays a gun Chicago has
battled a gun violence problem for years
the 2000s saw staggering murder rates
often coming close to or surpassing 500
per year 2013 for example started off
with a handful of murders on New Year’s
Day alone by the end of the week the
number had already reached double digits
the 66 month old child who haven’t had
the chance nor the opportunity to live
her mother never seen aloud to see what
she would become a mass shooting at a
basketball game in Cornell Square Park
in September of that same year left 13
wounded the next year didn’t fare much
better as fourth of July weekend 2014
was a bloody one with over 80 shootings
taking place 16 of them proving fatal
supposed to be Independence Day but it’s
not independence for parents who lost
their children to gun violence or any
other citizen in the city of Chicago who
lost their life to gun violence this
weekend it’s no surprise that the Windy
City is number 6 on our list some of the
stories we’re hearing right now and that
are going national are shocking the rest
of the country but Chicago’s been
dealing with this violence for quite a
while number 5 Camden New Jersey the
skyline of Philadelphia is almost
painful to look at from here because
it’s so close such a glittering symbol
of wealth and prosperity compared to
here home to Campbell Soup headquarters
and the first drive-in movie Camden was
once a thriving town that boasted
businesses that employed thousands fast
forward 60 years to a crime infested
ghost town where poverty reigns
city officials count nearly 200 places
where illegal drugs are sold in the open
making the most dangerous US cities list
since 1998 Camden’s crime problem has
been deteriorating for several decades
labeled a food desert by the USDA for
its lacking access to healthy food and
with its over 50% poverty rate high
unemployment and a standing as America’s
poorest City Camden became a wasteland
of abandoned homes with no money to tear
them down
chaos took over and the crime rate
soared they take us longer to get there
but at no point in time can we ever quit
number four st. Louis Missouri
four people were walking here along with
clean Avenue in the Central West End
when police tell me that thir Lester
Johnson robbed them at gunpoint with the
third highest murder rate of any major
city in the country in 2011
it’s no wonder st. Louis clocks in at
number four on our list you know they
sell dope out here you know they shoot
not here
and you got your five-year-old son in
the car right most of our shootings are
drug-related while Violent Crimes have
been going down in the last decade there
were still a recorded 120 murders in
2013 sending the murder rate up by 6.2
percent from the previous year
Zuri state representative TDL Amin has
asked the governor to order the National
Guard to help patrol the most dangerous
North st. Louis neighborhoods and with
the shooting of 18 year-old Michael
Brown by police in the Ferguson
neighborhood of st. Louis County in
August 2014 and the riots and violence
that followed it will probably not be a
great surprise that crime statistics in
st. Louis took yet another hit
protesters threw Molotov cocktails and
fireworks at riot police who responded
with tear gas and rubber bullets
number three Flint Michigan begin with
breaking news in Flint where a state
trooper has been shot the birthplace of
General Motors Flint was once home to
thousands of auto manufacturing jobs but
with the decline of the US auto industry
most of those jobs are now gone 66
people were killed in Flint last year
tying a record set two years earlier
close to 40 percent of Flint’s
population lives below the poverty line
and the city has had to cut back
significantly on police budgets having a
huge effect on the city’s crime-fighting
efforts with just over 100,000 residents
Flint saw almost 70 murders in 2012 and
over 50 the following year this one got
lucky shots fired but cops come
immediately
sometimes in Flint they don’t come for
hours not since the city laid off a
quarter of its police force it’s
effectively created a war here
and it’s a war zone the city is also
especially dangerous for women with the
most disturbing attack being the rape of
an 87 year old woman in the middle of
the day back in 2012 it makes me just
want to leave here no I don’t want to
stay here no longer because I don’t want
to be at the wrong place at the wrong
time
number two Oakland California a break in
the case of a paramedic murdered in
Oakland police have arrested five
teenagers all between the ages of 14 and
16 according to the Center for Disease
Control and Prevention Oakland figures
in the top five cities nationwide for
gang homicides this California city’s
main problems stem from poverty the drug
trade and gang-related crime live in the
killer fielder colligative I got to go
to Beirut know about war finish found
just across the bay from San Francisco
Oakland was also classified first coast
to coast for violent robberies as the
city faced budget cuts the police force
shrunk significantly and was soon
one-third the size of other cities in
the state even though it’s plagued by
the most crime before we unveil our top
pick here are a few honorable mentions
Hector Rodriguez is facing first-degree
murder of Winter Park high school
teenagers Jeremy steward and Nicholas
pre Shea after they were shot
execution-style their bodies burned
along the East Orange County walking
paths and she comes out with the little
girl and she says call 9-1-1 my name was
Amanda berry now did you know who that
was when you when she said that when she
told me it didn’t register until I got
the call to 9-1-1 and I’m like I’m
calling the 9-1-1 for a minute I thought
this girl was dead the ranking Buffalo
doesn’t want to brag about it now ranks
as one of the most dangerous cities in
the country a 15 year old murdered in
Little Rock after a prank
when a man fires his gun into a car full
of seven teenagers that’s where
witnesses say a white man dressed in
black military-style clothing burst into
a Sikh temple during Sunday morning
prayers and opened fire he was one of
seven killed in the incident which ended
in a police shootout it was pretty
brutal
Meredith Cole is angry her and her
boyfriend were in downtown Springfield
just after midnight on the 22nd of
August when they were assaulted outside
the Outland
room number one Detroit Michigan while
we work all day they stay at home and
figure out whose house they can break in
and take this stuff that they didn’t
work for once a booming metropolis and
the automotive capital of the world
Detroit has seen a steady decline since
the mid 20th century my way to work I’ll
come outside my car gone this morning
this morning clutter police yep
they show up nope after major industries
started outsourcing their manufacturing
jobs to cheaper pastures unemployment
soared as a result Detroit’s violent
crime rate hovers around five times the
national average and it has the highest
homicide rate among big cities Kenneth
says younger criminals are scary in the
past bad guys might rob you and then try
to get away the young criminals they
don’t they’ll kill you and they’ll kill
somebody else and they don’t care add
the recent bankruptcy to the mix and
it’s not surprising the Detroit snagged
our number one spot 139 square miles the
largest city in the United States so
they can’t service it all and they don’t
have the tax base to do it anybody with
any money has left town do you agree
with our list what do you think are the
most dangerous cities in America for
more serious top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
you
watch your back and store your valuables
in your trunk
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
most dangerous cities in the United
States for this list we mainly based our
rankings on the FBI’s latest statistics
on violent crimes which include murder
aggravated assault rape and robberies
however while many of these cities are
at a low point in their histories
there’s nowhere to go but up so
hopefully they’ll see their fortunes
turn soon number 10 Atlanta Georgia
dubbed the capital of the new south
Atlanta is home to global headquarters
of mega corporations like coca-cola the
Home Depot and UPS as well as the cable
news network CNN aside from its rep as a
hub for business Atlanta is a
cosmopolitan hotspot with fancy
restaurants and a hip nightlife but it
isn’t all rainbows and unicorns in
Georgia’s capital either the thug life
of putting your life and risk at all
times it’s located along several popular
drug trafficking routes which means
Atlanta’s violent crime rate has
historically sat well above the national
average it’s not for money anymore it’s
not for the gang anymore just people
going out just don’t leave feel like
doing at the time it’s not any
organization to it at all
however those rates did drop
significantly in the first decade of the
2000s so hopefully it won’t be on this
list for long number nine
Baltimore Maryland Maryland’s largest
city is rich in history culture the arts
and crime thirteen days into our new
year and sixteen people have already
been killed here in our city in June
2013
Baltimore saw a record 28 shootings and
10 homicides in just five days in August
the following year stray bullets from
violent disputes in both Baltimore and
nearby Prince George’s County killed
three three-year-old children as opposed
to other violent cities that have seen a
recent decline in murder rates Baltimore
saw a 7.3 percent hike in homicides in
2013 plagued by drugs and poverty be
more figures prominently among the most
crime-ridden cities in America with all
this killing we ain’t provide nothing
only thing we providing is message to
show our youth that this world is factly
destroying itself number eight
birmingham alabama we have breaking news
now we are getting some information on
the victims from yesterday’s shooting at
ups described as the cradle of the civil
rights movement Birmingham is Alabama’s
largest metropolis once a booming
industrial center of the South
Birmingham eventually saw roughly 25% of
its population living below the poverty
line which is approximately double the
national average that high poverty rate
paired with the ever-present drug trade
has kept the crime rate up to the point
where its crime rate is one of the
highest in the country regardless of the
city size crime tape marks the murder
scene near the loading dock through this
door the dead man in an employee only
corridor connecting to the kitchen while
those rates have gone down in the last
few years they are still way higher than
the national average number seven
Memphis Tennessee home of the Blues
barbecue and Graceland Memphis also has
a huge criminal culture crazy hell you
could just see someone one day and then
the next day they’re gone with over 180
gangs in the area including Gangster
Disciples
Crips Bloods la raza nation and ms-13
Memphis is plagued with serious gang
violence but dubious distinction for
West Tennessee tonight more dirty cops
are busted here than anywhere else in
the country ad corruption in the police
force to the mix with an average of 20
police officers arrested yearly since
2009 on various charges including DUI
extortion drug trafficking sexual
solicitation and more and it’s not
surprising that Memphis figures on the
FBI’s most dangerous cities list year
after year he’s on video counting cash a
bribe investigators say number six
Chicago Illinois hook
County Sheriff Sargent pumping gas
suddenly three men in hoodies approached
him one man displays a gun Chicago has
battled a gun violence problem for years
the 2000s saw staggering murder rates
often coming close to or surpassing 500
per year 2013 for example started off
with a handful of murders on New Year’s
Day alone by the end of the week the
number had already reached double digits
the 66 month old child who haven’t had
the chance nor the opportunity to live
her mother never seen aloud to see what
she would become a mass shooting at a
basketball game in Cornell Square Park
in September of that same year left 13
wounded the next year didn’t fare much
better as fourth of July weekend 2014
was a bloody one with over 80 shootings
taking place 16 of them proving fatal
supposed to be Independence Day but it’s
not independence for parents who lost
their children to gun violence or any
other citizen in the city of Chicago who
lost their life to gun violence this
weekend it’s no surprise that the Windy
City is number 6 on our list some of the
stories we’re hearing right now and that
are going national are shocking the rest
of the country but Chicago’s been
dealing with this violence for quite a
while number 5 Camden New Jersey the
skyline of Philadelphia is almost
painful to look at from here because
it’s so close such a glittering symbol
of wealth and prosperity compared to
here home to Campbell Soup headquarters
and the first drive-in movie Camden was
once a thriving town that boasted
businesses that employed thousands fast
forward 60 years to a crime infested
ghost town where poverty reigns
city officials count nearly 200 places
where illegal drugs are sold in the open
making the most dangerous US cities list
since 1998 Camden’s crime problem has
been deteriorating for several decades
labeled a food desert by the USDA for
its lacking access to healthy food and
with its over 50% poverty rate high
unemployment and a standing as America’s
poorest City Camden became a wasteland
of abandoned homes with no money to tear
them down
chaos took over and the crime rate
soared they take us longer to get there
but at no point in time can we ever quit
number four st. Louis Missouri
four people were walking here along with
clean Avenue in the Central West End
when police tell me that thir Lester
Johnson robbed them at gunpoint with the
third highest murder rate of any major
city in the country in 2011
it’s no wonder st. Louis clocks in at
number four on our list you know they
sell dope out here you know they shoot
not here
and you got your five-year-old son in
the car right most of our shootings are
drug-related while Violent Crimes have
been going down in the last decade there
were still a recorded 120 murders in
2013 sending the murder rate up by 6.2
percent from the previous year
Zuri state representative TDL Amin has
asked the governor to order the National
Guard to help patrol the most dangerous
North st. Louis neighborhoods and with
the shooting of 18 year-old Michael
Brown by police in the Ferguson
neighborhood of st. Louis County in
August 2014 and the riots and violence
that followed it will probably not be a
great surprise that crime statistics in
st. Louis took yet another hit
protesters threw Molotov cocktails and
fireworks at riot police who responded
with tear gas and rubber bullets
number three Flint Michigan begin with
breaking news in Flint where a state
trooper has been shot the birthplace of
General Motors Flint was once home to
thousands of auto manufacturing jobs but
with the decline of the US auto industry
most of those jobs are now gone 66
people were killed in Flint last year
tying a record set two years earlier
close to 40 percent of Flint’s
population lives below the poverty line
and the city has had to cut back
significantly on police budgets having a
huge effect on the city’s crime-fighting
efforts with just over 100,000 residents
Flint saw almost 70 murders in 2012 and
over 50 the following year this one got
lucky shots fired but cops come
immediately
sometimes in Flint they don’t come for
hours not since the city laid off a
quarter of its police force it’s
effectively created a war here
and it’s a war zone the city is also
especially dangerous for women with the
most disturbing attack being the rape of
an 87 year old woman in the middle of
the day back in 2012 it makes me just
want to leave here no I don’t want to
stay here no longer because I don’t want
to be at the wrong place at the wrong
time
number two Oakland California a break in
the case of a paramedic murdered in
Oakland police have arrested five
teenagers all between the ages of 14 and
16 according to the Center for Disease
Control and Prevention Oakland figures
in the top five cities nationwide for
gang homicides this California city’s
main problems stem from poverty the drug
trade and gang-related crime live in the
killer fielder colligative I got to go
to Beirut know about war finish found
just across the bay from San Francisco
Oakland was also classified first coast
to coast for violent robberies as the
city faced budget cuts the police force
shrunk significantly and was soon
one-third the size of other cities in
the state even though it’s plagued by
the most crime before we unveil our top
pick here are a few honorable mentions
Hector Rodriguez is facing first-degree
murder of Winter Park high school
teenagers Jeremy steward and Nicholas
pre Shea after they were shot
execution-style their bodies burned
along the East Orange County walking
paths and she comes out with the little
girl and she says call 9-1-1 my name was
Amanda berry now did you know who that
was when you when she said that when she
told me it didn’t register until I got
the call to 9-1-1 and I’m like I’m
calling the 9-1-1 for a minute I thought
this girl was dead the ranking Buffalo
doesn’t want to brag about it now ranks
as one of the most dangerous cities in
the country a 15 year old murdered in
Little Rock after a prank
when a man fires his gun into a car full
of seven teenagers that’s where
witnesses say a white man dressed in
black military-style clothing burst into
a Sikh temple during Sunday morning
prayers and opened fire he was one of
seven killed in the incident which ended
in a police shootout it was pretty
brutal
Meredith Cole is angry her and her
boyfriend were in downtown Springfield
just after midnight on the 22nd of
August when they were assaulted outside
the Outland
room number one Detroit Michigan while
we work all day they stay at home and
figure out whose house they can break in
and take this stuff that they didn’t
work for once a booming metropolis and
the automotive capital of the world
Detroit has seen a steady decline since
the mid 20th century my way to work I’ll
come outside my car gone this morning
this morning clutter police yep
they show up nope after major industries
started outsourcing their manufacturing
jobs to cheaper pastures unemployment
soared as a result Detroit’s violent
crime rate hovers around five times the
national average and it has the highest
homicide rate among big cities Kenneth
says younger criminals are scary in the
past bad guys might rob you and then try
to get away the young criminals they
don’t they’ll kill you and they’ll kill
somebody else and they don’t care add
the recent bankruptcy to the mix and
it’s not surprising the Detroit snagged
our number one spot 139 square miles the
largest city in the United States so
they can’t service it all and they don’t
have the tax base to do it anybody with
any money has left town do you agree
with our list what do you think are the
most dangerous cities in America for
more serious top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
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