Most Violent Cities in America 2023... Indianapolis #12

[mark40sw]

Most Violent Cities in America 2023

worldpopulationreview.com

 

[Shadow01]

Mine is not on there.

 

[Keith_Indy]

Common man, we can do better...

 

[xwing]

That list is surprising. Chicago is only #20?

 

[xwing]

Common man, we can do better...

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Those rank #s are not correct. I'm not sure what they are computing, since it isn't the Violent Crime rate... (I understand you just copied it off the site, but something is not right there...)

 

[Leadeye]

I have to wonder how the "city" is actually calculated. Indy would be everything in Marion county while I would bet places like St. Louis only count a small fraction of the actual town as so much is broken up into different political divisions. You really could get a ranking to go many different ways depending on how you wanted to interpret the data.

 

[rhamersley]

Those rank #s are not correct. I'm not sure what they are computing, since it isn't the Violent Crime rate... (I understand you just copied it off the site, but something is not right there...)

Appears to be sorted by population low to high.

 

[KLB]

Those rank #s are not correct. I'm not sure what they are computing, since it isn't the Violent Crime rate... (I understand you just copied it off the site, but something is not right there...)

Yep. Here is the list ranked by crime rate

 

[BE Mike]

All I'll say is a quote of my former accounting professor, "Figures don't lie, but liars can figure!"

 

[Ark]

Oh boy I can't wait to vote for the current mayor, or the current mayor

 

[Vanderbilt]

.....as a youth that grew up in the sticks during the 50's-60's...the Indianapolis of the 70's-80's was a fun place to work, run around and live in......today, many of the places of my memory are now the subject of murders, robbery and every other issue one can conjure up. I now live far from the city lights back in the sticks I longed to leave and have little desire to go up there unless I have to.

 

[Twangbanger]

Is this "rate per 100k" or what? Indianapolis is particularly "impressive" when you consider we're apparently including our suburbs in the calculation, and most of the other cities are not. I wonder what the rate would be if calculated within the "pre-Unigov" city limits?

 

[KLB]

Is this "rate per 100k" or what?

Yes.

 

[Vanderbilt]

Is this "rate per 100k" or what? Indianapolis is particularly "impressive" when you consider we're apparently including our suburbs in the calculation, and most of the other cities are not. I wonder what the rate would be if calculated within the "pre-Unigov" city limits?

....yes, it's based on murders per "100K", this is covered on a YT video.....unless one is completely naive, newly every city or town of some size will have an area(s) that could be considered unsafe? Cities like New York, Chicago, Houston et al are easy targets for blame because they're large and always in the news, lol......

 

[KLB]

....yes, it's based on murders per "100K", this is covered on a YT video.....unless one is completely naive, newly every city or town of some size will have an area(s) that could be considered unsafe? Cities like New York, Chicago, Houston et al are easy targets for blame because they're large and always in the news, lol......

Chicago is pretty much unsafe now. The crime no longer stays primarily in certain neighborhoods like it used to.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Having grown up in Tennessee I remember when Memphis had "rough areas" and seems like we never heard anything about Nashville. But I wouldn't live in or near either one now, if you paid me.

 

[KLB]

Having grown up in Tennessee I remember when Memphis had "rough areas" and seems like we never heard anything about Nashville. But I wouldn't live in or near either one now, if you paid me.

I don't even go to Chicago anymore if I can help it. Been there three times since the covid shutdown. Once to the burbs to get my car, and twice downtown for work.

 

[Super Bee]

I don't even go to Chicago anymore if I can help it. Been there three times since the covid shutdown. Once to the burbs to get my car, and twice downtown for work.

I avoid it as well. However, I need to be downtown next weekend then again in November. Not really looking forward to it.

 

[Vanderbilt]

Chicago is pretty much unsafe now. The crime no longer stays primarily in certain neighborhoods like it used to.

....based on the nightly news, you could say the same thing about Indianapolis....when I was a pup, the Downtown and Westside were the dangerous places, now one isn't even safe in Beech Grove, Southport or even Greenwood, lol....

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I don't even go to Chicago anymore if I can help it. Been there three times since the covid shutdown. Once to the burbs to get my car, and twice downtown for work.

I think I can accurately say now it's been decades (2) since I've been there. There's nothing there I want to go see or do.