>>27080 I had read it in a news item about a month ago but OB had proved it wrong.
After hurricane Ike, a lot of people were placed here in Houston from New Orleans. They trashed the Astrodome and crime shot thru the roof. We've had tons of Michigan license plates in the last few years as the same amount of California. Big city (4 million) and lotsa crime.

damn, what happens to those cities? I can't imagine they will be sold or something

Detroit, Mi

Flint, Mi

Houston;

>>27077 Regarding the bankruptcies, the answer is too many

An interactive map here:
http://www.governing.com/gov-data/municipal-cities-counties-bankruptcies-and-defaults.html

Washington Post sites these stats:

In new crime statistics released Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported 500 murders in Chicago in 2012, up sharply from the 431 recorded in 2011. New York reported 419 murders last year, compared with 515 in 2011.

But residents of Chicago and New York were much less likely to be victims of a homicide than residents of Flint, Mich. Sixty-three murders occurred in 2012 in Flint, a city of 101,632, meaning one in every 1,613 city residents were homicide victims. Detroit, which experienced 386 homicides in 2012, was almost as unsafe; that’s enough murders to account for one in every 1,832 residents.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/09/18/fbi-chicago-passes-new-york-as-murder-capital-of-u-s/

Source: www.protection1.com/local/

>>27079

source?

I think Flint, Michigan rose to no. 1 last year.

such a waste. How many cities in the US are on the brink of bankruptcy?

>>27076 according to the FBI's report of 2012 Detroit has the highest crime.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_rate)

>>27073 I think there's only one other city in the U.S. that has a higher crime rate. Number one is also in Michigan.

Detroit today