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9 St. Louis, Missouri
According to U.S. News and World Report, the most dangerous city in the United States is St. Louis.
If you have a death wish, just wander around the streets of East St. Louis at night.
There is a decent chance that someone will shoot you.
Things were not always this way in St. Louis. But today things have
gotten so bad that you can find packs of wild dogs roaming the city
digging through trash and threatening children.
The following is from a report by the local CBS affiliate in St. Louis....
...Lewis Reed is sounding the alarm. "I’ve witnessed
packs of dogs, 10 and 15 dogs running together, and I’ve seen all these
dogs I’m talking about they don’t have collars, they don’t have tags,
these are truly wild dogs," he said.
Reed says stray dogs are terrorizing the north side. "It’s
obscene that parents have to walk their kids to school, in some parts of
the city, with a golf club to fend off wild dogs."
This kind of thing is actually happening in America?
#10 New Orleans, Louisiana
The problems that New Orleans has experienced have been well documented.
But unlike most of the cities listed above, at least New Orleans has an excuse. New Orleans permanently lost 29% of its population after Hurricane Katrina, and large sections of the city were essentially destroyed by that storm.
Even today, there are still some areas of New Orleans that look as if they have just been bombed.
It has been estimated that about 20 percent of the homes in New
Orleans are still standing vacant, and poverty is rampant. New Orleans
will probably never fully recover to the level it was at before
Hurricane Katrina hit.
#11 Oakland, California
Oakland has always been in the shadow of San Francisco, and the contrast between the two cities continues to grow.
Oakland has always been considered one of the more dangerous cities
in America, and this year crime rates in Oakland are rising rapidly.
The following is from a recent article in the New York Times....
At the beginning of April, murders in Oakland were up
26 percent over a year ago, rapes were up 41 percent, and robberies
were up 35 percent.
When Chief Batts arrived as a “change agent” in 2009, the police
department employed 837 officers. It now has 635. The department no
longer responds to burglaries that are not still in progress, and
frequently does not respond to other calls for help.
So if your house has been robbed and the burglars are gone what are you supposed to do?
Due to a crippling lack of resources, the previous police chief
decided that his department would no longer be able to respond to all
crimes.
The following is a partial list of the crimes that police in Oakland are no longer likely to respond to....
burglary
theft
embezzlement
grand theft
grand theft: dog
identity theft
false information to peace officer
required to register as sex or arson offender
dump waste or offensive matter
loud music
possess forged notes
pass fictitious check
obtain money by false voucher
fraudulent use of access cards
stolen license plate
embezzlement by an employee
extortion
attempted extortion
false personification of other
injure telephone/power line
interfere with power line
unauthorized cable tv connection
vandalism
So what do you do if you are a victim of one of those crimes in Oakland?
That is a very good question.
#12 Baltimore, Maryland
If you can believe it, Baltimore was actually once a great city.
But today it has become a crime-ridden, drug-infested hellhole.
I used to drive up to Baltimore all the time. It truly is a "blue
collar" city. There are a lot of really hard working people there.
Unfortunately, there are not nearly enough jobs for everyone and a lot of people have turned to drugs and crime.
There are some areas of Baltimore that you really should never enter
by yourself. If you do go into them, you might not make it back out.
There was one incident in Baltimore earlier this year that was particularly disturbing.
One poor young man had gotten drunk and was apparently wandering
around all by himself. Some thugs approached him and they clearly
sensed that he was vulnerable. So they knocked him to the ground,
stripped him of his car keys, his watch, his money, his cell phone and
his clothes.
A crowd gathered around to watch, and instead of helping the man,
several of them got out their cell phones and laughed hysterically while
they recorded the incident with their cell phone cameras for YouTube.
What made all of this even sadder is that this happened right in front of a Baltimore courthouse.
What in the world has happened to this nation?
All of us that still love this country should be deeply saddened by everything above.
America is rotting from the inside out, and if we are ever going to
find any solutions we need to start admitting how bad things have really
become.
The truth is that our problems are not limited to one political
party, one special interest group or to one region of the country. The
social decay that is plaguing America can literally be found everywhere.
For much more on this, please see the following four articles....
1) "25 Signs The Collapse Of America Is Speeding Up As Society Rots From The Inside Out"
2) "70 Reasons To Mourn For America"
3) "20 Signs That Society Is Breaking Down And That America Has Been Overrun By Psychos"
4) "12 Factors That Are Turning The Streets Of America Into A Living Hell"
So don't laugh at Detroit or Cleveland or St. Louis.
The rest of the country is declining too.
If the city where you live is not a hellhole already, it will be soon enough."
According to U.S. News and World Report, the most dangerous city in the United States is St. Louis.
If you have a death wish, just wander around the streets of East St. Louis at night.
There is a decent chance that someone will shoot you.
Things were not always this way in St. Louis. But today things have
gotten so bad that you can find packs of wild dogs roaming the city
digging through trash and threatening children.
The following is from a report by the local CBS affiliate in St. Louis....
...Lewis Reed is sounding the alarm. "I’ve witnessed
packs of dogs, 10 and 15 dogs running together, and I’ve seen all these
dogs I’m talking about they don’t have collars, they don’t have tags,
these are truly wild dogs," he said.
Reed says stray dogs are terrorizing the north side. "It’s
obscene that parents have to walk their kids to school, in some parts of
the city, with a golf club to fend off wild dogs."
This kind of thing is actually happening in America?
#10 New Orleans, Louisiana
The problems that New Orleans has experienced have been well documented.
But unlike most of the cities listed above, at least New Orleans has an excuse. New Orleans permanently lost 29% of its population after Hurricane Katrina, and large sections of the city were essentially destroyed by that storm.
Even today, there are still some areas of New Orleans that look as if they have just been bombed.
It has been estimated that about 20 percent of the homes in New
Orleans are still standing vacant, and poverty is rampant. New Orleans
will probably never fully recover to the level it was at before
Hurricane Katrina hit.
#11 Oakland, California
Oakland has always been in the shadow of San Francisco, and the contrast between the two cities continues to grow.
Oakland has always been considered one of the more dangerous cities
in America, and this year crime rates in Oakland are rising rapidly.
The following is from a recent article in the New York Times....
At the beginning of April, murders in Oakland were up
26 percent over a year ago, rapes were up 41 percent, and robberies
were up 35 percent.
When Chief Batts arrived as a “change agent” in 2009, the police
department employed 837 officers. It now has 635. The department no
longer responds to burglaries that are not still in progress, and
frequently does not respond to other calls for help.
So if your house has been robbed and the burglars are gone what are you supposed to do?
Due to a crippling lack of resources, the previous police chief
decided that his department would no longer be able to respond to all
crimes.
The following is a partial list of the crimes that police in Oakland are no longer likely to respond to....
burglary
theft
embezzlement
grand theft
grand theft: dog
identity theft
false information to peace officer
required to register as sex or arson offender
dump waste or offensive matter
loud music
possess forged notes
pass fictitious check
obtain money by false voucher
fraudulent use of access cards
stolen license plate
embezzlement by an employee
extortion
attempted extortion
false personification of other
injure telephone/power line
interfere with power line
unauthorized cable tv connection
vandalism
So what do you do if you are a victim of one of those crimes in Oakland?
That is a very good question.
#12 Baltimore, Maryland
If you can believe it, Baltimore was actually once a great city.
But today it has become a crime-ridden, drug-infested hellhole.
I used to drive up to Baltimore all the time. It truly is a "blue
collar" city. There are a lot of really hard working people there.
Unfortunately, there are not nearly enough jobs for everyone and a lot of people have turned to drugs and crime.
There are some areas of Baltimore that you really should never enter
by yourself. If you do go into them, you might not make it back out.
There was one incident in Baltimore earlier this year that was particularly disturbing.
One poor young man had gotten drunk and was apparently wandering
around all by himself. Some thugs approached him and they clearly
sensed that he was vulnerable. So they knocked him to the ground,
stripped him of his car keys, his watch, his money, his cell phone and
his clothes.
A crowd gathered around to watch, and instead of helping the man,
several of them got out their cell phones and laughed hysterically while
they recorded the incident with their cell phone cameras for YouTube.
What made all of this even sadder is that this happened right in front of a Baltimore courthouse.
What in the world has happened to this nation?
All of us that still love this country should be deeply saddened by everything above.
America is rotting from the inside out, and if we are ever going to
find any solutions we need to start admitting how bad things have really
become.
The truth is that our problems are not limited to one political
party, one special interest group or to one region of the country. The
social decay that is plaguing America can literally be found everywhere.
For much more on this, please see the following four articles....
1) "25 Signs The Collapse Of America Is Speeding Up As Society Rots From The Inside Out"
2) "70 Reasons To Mourn For America"
3) "20 Signs That Society Is Breaking Down And That America Has Been Overrun By Psychos"
4) "12 Factors That Are Turning The Streets Of America Into A Living Hell"
So don't laugh at Detroit or Cleveland or St. Louis.
The rest of the country is declining too.
If the city where you live is not a hellhole already, it will be soon enough."