Is it really dangerous to the average person to live in inner St. Louis? Do they mean the "highest murder rate" or actually the "most dangerous for the AVERAGE (white or black) person to live in"? There is a big difference. Most inner city murders are black on black gang murders. If you arent a black male gang member is it really that dangerous? If so isnt this very inaccurate and misleading by the media?
2006-10-30 05:27:00 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ United States ➔ St. Louis
I believe that you can find the same problems that you encounter here in St.Louis in every city in America. Stay out of trouble and other peoples business and you will be fine. Its not like walking down the street someone is going to kill you but the same dangers that exist in New York and Chicago still exist here. But it isn't as rough as I think the media is trying to portray it to be.
2006-10-31 09:12:49 · answer #1 · answered by Chrisy 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
My daughter and son-in-law live in St Louis so we try to travel there a couple of times a year. My SIL is a St Louis fireman and there are parts of the city he won't go into even in the day time. The last time we were there was for their wedding and the wedding party was staying at the Hyatt Regency Union Station. Someone was robbed right across the street while there was a line of people waiting to get into a club there. Even so, St Louis has become my favorite city and I've personally never had any problems there.
2006-10-30 07:33:38 · answer #2 · answered by Spud55 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been to St. Louis several times with no problems. But you can't argue the high murder rate. What you have to look at is whether those murders were between people who knew each other or have some sort of connection (e.g., rival gangs). If so, then regular people are just left alone.
2006-10-30 05:30:27 · answer #3 · answered by IceTrojan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
East St. Louis is extremely, very, risky. it relatively is a huge ghetto, except you will stay interior the recent government housing, there is nowhere advantageous to stay there. i does no longer even force by using it, somewhat at night. in case you're prepared to stay on the Illinois part, Belleville, Collinsville, Fairview Heights, Swansea, O'Fallon, and Shiloh are plenty nicer, plenty safer areas to stay. I used to stay in Belleville, it relatively is an extremely advantageous city with plenty to do, and somewhat some, many advantageous areas to stay. in case you're in seek of for someplace on the Missouri part, specific places in St. Louis, Hazelwood, St. Peters, St. Charles, even West Alton are all advantageous places to stay. St. Louis city is not greater risky a place to stay than Chicago or manhattan city. I have no concept the place all people is getting each and all the fake data, I even have lived interior the St. Louis section my total existence and not as quickly as replaced into mugged, raped, burdened, vandaled, assaulted or had my domicile or motor vehicle broken into. for sure, those human beings have never lived right here. St. Louis is relatively like another city, you in easy terms would desire to nicely known the place it relatively is secure, and the place it relatively is not.
2016-10-21 00:14:41 · answer #4 · answered by lindgren 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It violent crimes per capita. Look at it this way. If there was one mugging in NYC and one mugging in St. Louis...St. Louis would have the higher crimerate per capita because the population is much lower. I have lived in St. Louis area all my life. I have ventured into aread they some would say are bad with no trouble. It is no different the any other major metroplitan. You have to know what parts of town have the most violence and avoid those areas. Otherwise, most places you can walk and you can drive with your windows down.
2006-10-30 05:31:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let me see....Hmmmmm, it seems I remember about 30 years ago when two black gangs shot it out at a mall in Oakland. Who got killed, not the gang members, but Innocent bystanders.
At about the same time in a San Francisco Chinese restaurant, two Chinese gangs shot it out, again it was the innocent bystanders who got killed.
Is the media really misleading?
2006-10-30 05:34:53 · answer #6 · answered by festus_porkchop 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't every state dangerous for the average person. What about white on white crime? There are white gangs in the county, who probably have done drive-by shooting or have killed someone. But did they research that, I don't think so.
2006-10-30 13:27:22 · answer #7 · answered by lghtsxy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The data is inaccuate. They just went with the city of st. louis and not the entire metropolitan area. If you live in the county you're pretty safe.
2006-10-30 06:30:30 · answer #8 · answered by momoftwo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hate to say this but with all the USELESS, WELFARE STEALING, INHUMAN, SO CALLED BLACK RACE or better yet "*******" TAKING OVER St. Louis it has become a bad place to live. Anywhere they move into they destroy the area. Think I'm wrong look for yourself at North St. Louis City and County just to name two areas. They used to be very, very nice areas until the USELESS BLACK RACE moved in and destroyed them, but then again they do that to every city they TAKE OVER!!!!!
2006-10-30 07:49:53 · answer #9 · answered by m6c9d2000 1 · 2⤊ 3⤋
i don't know i haven't been there in along time. but the internet had said it was the must dangerous place to live in the midwest. so i guess it goes for everyone. i think they also said that the crime rate went up to 25% in two years.
2006-10-30 05:42:21 · answer #10 · answered by gibbs_20_11 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋