Top 6 in Top 10 Most Dangerous Cities in America.
Louis shaken after the deaths of 12 children since April 4
Missouri is the only state with two entries on this list. Unfortunately, this is a shameful internal competition that the Missourians can do. Louis is a city of extreme dichotomy: At one end of the spectrum, the so-called Gateway to the Midwest is a major economic hub and home to ten Fortune 500 companies, including including prescription drug management giant Express Scripts Holding and Anheuser Busch, the country's most popular brewer, Budweiser. Despite the fact that the unemployment rate in the big city area before COVID was only 3.4%, however, the low unemployment rate did not help limit the violence in St. Louis, with a staggering 1,800 violent crimes per 100,000 residents - almost five times the national average. And if the list is limited to murder, St. Louis will rise from 5th to 1st: in 2018 the city suffered 187 homicides, a rate of 61 per 100,000 people, making it the murder capital of USBoth gun violence and a billion Violent crime settlement rates have exacerbated this problem. Last summer, about a dozen children - some toddlers - were shot dead in St. Louis and as of the end of August, only one arrest had been made.