We’re Number 354: Cincinnati Got to This Point During Six Years of John Cranley (Updated for Population Revision)
Or, conversely, Cincinnati is the 18th most dangerous city in America (based on FBI figures, per AP report, out of 371 listed; HT Drudge).
More dangerous than:
- Washington, DC (353)
- Newark(!) (350)
- Dayton (346)
- Toledo (331)
- Miami (327)
- Columbus (326)
- Indianapolis (320)
- Pittsburgh (307)
- San Francisco (270)
- New York City (145)
Small consolation: A few cities didn’t report, including Chicago and New Orleans (but Chicago might very well have come in less dangerous).
John Cranley isn’t the only person to blame for the city’s safety deterioration. But he’s the only one who feels he’s entitled to a promotion to Congress after six years of watching it happen.
I don’t think so.
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UPDATE: This is admittedly from a Wiki entry that doesn’t have a cite, but it conforms with what I expected and recall, having lived in the Cincy Metro area for over 40 years, and in the city itself during part of that time:
Before the riots of 2001, Cincinnati’s overall crime rate was dropping dramatically [citation needed]. It was at its statistical lowest point in records dating back to 1992.
John Cranley has been in City Council for six years while a previously favorable trend in crime has gone the other way — severely.
UPDATE 2, Nov. 12 — Cincinnat Blog points out that the recent restatement of Cincinnati’s population upward by 22,582 changes the city’s crime standing. My admittedly wild quess is that the 7% or so increase improves the city’s ranking by 20 or so places at the very most. The Enquirer link indicates that the city’s standing in homicides only “improved” from 15th-worst to 17th-worst.
