Recall a few months ago that the St. Louis Chief of Police urged card-carrying good guys to leave their guns at home because St. Louis had a cutting-edge video surveillance system with 400 cameras to keep residents and visitors safe.
Yeah, we laughed out loud too at the inept police chief peddling the snake oil that video cameras prevent violent crime.
Here’s our report from April 17, 2015.
DIM WIT? St. Louis Police chief calls for the law-abiding to leave their guns at home. “We got cameras” he says.
St. Louis Metro Police Chief Sam Dotson has a message to the law-abiding good guys of St. Louis following three shootings in his city that have left six people perforated: Leave your guns at home.
That’s right. Sam “Snowflake” Dotson – as in “Special Snowflake Syndrome” – made the comment to local reporters – noting that the department has a network of 400 cameras throughout the city with which to identify criminals.
KMOV reported:
“Leave it (guns) at home,” Dotson said. “Don’t give criminals more guns because we already know they are using them.”
He also says police will have access to 400 cameras throughout the city to catch criminals. Police will have access to this information from the new Real Time Crime Center.
We know that the only thing that stops bad people with evil in their heart isn’t a video surveillance system, but a good guy with a gun.
Well, it’s been almost a year later.
Here’s what those 400 cameras have gotten St. Louis:
St. Louis usurps Detroit to become most violent city in the US: Gateway City is worst for rape, robbery aggravated assault and murder according to FBI data
- St. Louis, Missouri ranked first with 88.1 violent crimes per 10k residents
- FBI released crime rates in cities with more than 100,000 people
- Cities in Delaware, Maine, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming were not included because city populations were too low
- Criminology professor said St. Louis is unlikely to be influenced by the police shooting of Michael Brown, since homicides were already increasing
- Violent crimes include rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and murder
(UK Daily Mail) – A list of the most violent cities in each state has been released, with St. Louis, Missouri taking the top spot.
Compiled from data released by the FBI charting crime in the first six months of 2015, the ‘Gateway City’ is followed by Memphis, Tennessee, Detroit, Michigan, Birmingham, Alabama, and Rockford, Illinois, to round out the top five.
The violent crimes listed by the FBI include rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and murder.
THE MOST VIOLENT CITIES IN EACH STATE, WITH CRIME RATES PER 10,000 RESIDENTS
One question: Where’s Chicago?
1. St. Louis, Missouri: 88.1
2. Memphis, Tennessee: 84.2
3. Detroit, Michigan: 83.4
4. Birmingham, Alabama: 82.8
5. Rockford, Illinois: 76.3
6. Baltimore, Maryland: 67.7
7. Stockton, California: 67.4
8. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: 65.3
9. Cleveland, Ohio: 61.5
10. Hartford, Connecticut: 55.8
11. Atlanta, Georgia: 55.7
12. Springfield, Massachusetts: 54.4
13. Anchorage, Alaska: 53.6
14. Tallahassee, Florida: 52.8
15. Odessa, Texas: 51.8
16. Newark, New Jersey: 50.2
17. Buffalo, New York: 50.2
18. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 49.1
19. Albuquerque, New Mexico: 48.2
20. Wichita, Kansas: 45.5
21. North Las Vegas, Nevada: 43.4
22. Jackson, Mississippi: 43.2
23. Durham, North Carolina: 42.8
24. New Orleans, Louisiana: 42.7
25. Tulsa, Oklahoma: 41.5
26. Pueblo, Colorado: 41.6
27. Des Moines, Iowa: 38.7
28. Salt Lake City, Utah: 38.2
29. Tacoma, Washington: 36.6
30. North Charleston, South Carolina: 34.8
31. Tucson, Arizona: 32.4
32. South Bend, Indiana: 32.2
33. Louisville, Kentucky: 30.2
34. Manchester, New Hampshire: 28.9
35. Providence, Rhode Island: 26.6
36. Norfolk, Virginia: 24.5
37. Billings, Montana: 21.1
38. Sioux Falls, South Dakota: 20.6
39. Lincoln, Nebraska: 17.4
40. Eugene, Oregon: 15.3
41. Fargo, North Dakota: 14.6
42. Boise, Idaho: 13.5
43. Honolulu, Hawaii: 11.6
When St. Louis is safe enough that Dotson and the rest of his police can leave their guns at home, I MIGHT consider leaving mine as well.
I don’t anticipate that day coming in my lifetime.
Even less so with the war on police being waged by inner city black folks demanding less policing from the police, yet they wail at the explosion of violent crime created by violent criminals from within their own community.
Too many in the black community are more interested in protecting their violent predator family members than they are in fixing the problems in their community. In other words, they are making their bed. Let them lay in it.
Once again, snake oil doesn’t work.
When will foolish people learn? I suppose there’s a reason half the population is more foolish than average. They’re just known as Democrats. Or low-information voters. Or leftists living in a dream world. Or idiots.
Sorry for repeating myself.
Start a new federal government program. Everyone that feels threatened gets a government fold out “safe place ” fish net wrapped CRIB.
Yes, where is Chicago? I don’t see any cities in Texas, and only one in Florida, and I bet they don’t have 400 cameras.
If cameras stopped crime, convenience stores wouldn’t get robbed so often.
If gun laws stopped crime, Chicago would be among the safest cities in America.
If laws stopped criminal behavior, we wouldn’t need prisons.
If signs stopped unwanted behavior, we wouldn’t need traffic cops.
Oh yeah, where’s East St. Louis?
I think this report is hogwash, how can Chicago, D.C., and Los Angeles not be on it?
Being from what the frothing liberals called “the Gun Shine State “many years ago, couldn’t help but notice our state capital standout in a leadership role that many gun friendlier cities don’t have and it’s really no wonder, Florida is in the 2016 legislature trying to push thru concealed carry on campus for CCW residents and those that have cried the loudest have been from where, if you said, Miami, Tampa, or Jacksonville you’d be wrong, but if guessed the Big T you’d be right on espcially from the FSU campus police followed close behind the city chief, if you think it’s hard to find a good gun hating liberal just go to any city with a large university there like bedbugs always near the bed.
Days all got there Obama phomes…lol