St. Louis

===Crime===
{{Main|Crime in St. Louis}}
Since 2014 the city of St. Louis has had, {{as of|2017|April|lc=y}}, one of the highest murder rates, per capita, in the United States,<ref>{{cite news|title=Millennials really like St Louis|url=https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21720664-addition-countrys-highest-murder-rate-city-boasts-vibrant-start-up|access-date=April 14, 2017|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=April 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413184035/http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21720664-addition-countrys-highest-murder-rate-city-boasts-vibrant-start-up|archive-date=April 13, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> with 188 homicides in 2015 (59.3 homicides per 100,000)<ref name="crimerate">{{cite web |url=https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/table-6 |title=Crime in the United States, 2015 |publisher=FBI.gov (Uniform Crime Reports) |access-date=April 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170322171022/https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/table-6 |archive-date=March 22, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Bosman, Julie and Mitch Smith (December 28, 2016). Article comparing Chicago's annual homicide statistics to those of other American cities, including St. Louis, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/us/chicago-murder-rate-gun-deaths.html ''New York Times''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170331214442/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/us/chicago-murder-rate-gun-deaths.html |date=March 31, 2017}}</ref> and ranks No. 13 of the most dangerous cities in the world by homicide rate. [[Detroit]], [[Flint, Michigan|Flint]], [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]], [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], and [[Baltimore]] have higher overall violent crime rates than St. Louis, when comparing other crimes such as rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.<ref name=crimerate /><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-01-02|title=NeighborhoodScout's Most Dangerous Cities - 2020|url=https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/blog/top100dangerous|access-date=2020-06-08|website=NeighborhoodScout|language=en-US|archive-date=March 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308110815/https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/blog/top100dangerous|url-status=live}}</ref> Despite these high crime rates relative to other American cities, St. Louis [[index crime]] rates have declined almost every year since the peak in 1993 (16,648), to the 2014 level of 7,931 (which is the sum of violent crimes and property crimes) per 100,000. In 2015, the index crime rate reversed the 2005–2014 decline to a level of 8,204. Between 2005 and 2014, violent crime has declined by 20%, although rates of violent crime remains 6 times higher than the [[Crime in the United States|United States national average]] and property crime in the city remains 2 {{frac|1|2}} times the national average.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.morganquitno.com/methodology01.htm |title=Methodology |publisher=Morganquitno.com |access-date=March 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511075835/http://www.morganquitno.com/methodology01.htm |archive-date=May 11, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> St. Louis has a higher homicide rate than the rest of the U.S. for both whites and blacks and a higher proportion committed by males. {{as of|2016|October}}, 7 of the homicide suspects were white, 95 black, 0 Hispanic, 0 Asian and 1 female out of the 102 suspects. In 2016, St. Louis was the most dangerous city in the United States with populations of 100,000 or more, ranking 1st in violent crime and 2nd in property crime. It was also ranked 6th of the most dangerous of all establishments in the United States, and East St. Louis, a suburb of the city itself, was ranked 1st.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/|title=2015|website=Ucr.fbi.gov|access-date=August 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830025557/https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015|archive-date=August 30, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.slmpd.org/images/Homicide_Stats_for_Website.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=October 18, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019003806/http://www.slmpd.org/images/Homicide_Stats_for_Website.pdf |archive-date=October 19, 2016 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>  The [[Metropolitan Police Department, City of St. Louis|St. Louis Police Department]] at the end of 2016 reported a total of 188 murders for the year, the same number of homicides that had occurred in the city in 2015.<ref>Murphy, Doyle (January 3, 2017). [http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2017/01/03/st-louis-murder-toll-hit-188-in-2016-tying-2015s-unusually-high-number "St. Louis Murder Toll Hit 188 in 2016--Tying 2015's Unusually High Number."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116171953/http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2017/01/03/st-louis-murder-toll-hit-188-in-2016-tying-2015s-unusually-high-number |date=January 16, 2017}} ''Riverfront Times'' (''RFT''). Retrieved January 15, 2017.</ref> According to the STLP At the end of 2017, St. Louis had 205 murders but the city recorded only 159 inside St. Louis city limits.<ref name="2017murders">{{cite web |url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/focused-police-presence-in-north-st-louis-better-relationships-with/article_7ba12d3a-ed23-5ecb-b92f-db8c8cc8bb39.html |title=Focused police presence in north St. Louis, better relationships with protesters among new chief's goals |work=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] |date=January 3, 2018 |access-date=January 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206033621/http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/focused-police-presence-in-north-st-louis-better-relationships-with/article_7ba12d3a-ed23-5ecb-b92f-db8c8cc8bb39.html |archive-date=February 6, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>St. Louis Crime tracker-City snapshot, https://graphics.stltoday.com/apps/crime/index.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211201618/https://graphics.stltoday.com/apps/crime/index.html |date=December 11, 2017}} Retrieved January 30, 2018</ref> The new Chief of Police, [[John Hayden Jr.|John Hayden]] said two-thirds (67%) of all the murders and one-half of all the assaults are concentrated in a triangular area in the North part of the city.<ref name=2017murders />

Yet another factor when comparing the murder rates of St. Louis and other cities is the manner of drawing municipal boundaries. While many other municipalities have annexed many suburbs, St. Louis has not annexed as much suburban area as most American cities. According to a 2018 estimate, the St. Louis metro area included about 3 million residents and the city included about 300,000 residents. Therefore, the city contains about ten percent of the metro population, a low ratio indicating that the municipal boundaries include only a small part of the metro population.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/upshot/crime-statistics-south-bend-st-louis-misleading.html |last=Asher |first=Jeff |date=December 17, 2019 |title=South Bend and St. Louis, Where Crime Statistics Can Mislead |access-date=July 14, 2020 |newspaper=The New York Times |archive-date=September 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200913002557/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/upshot/crime-statistics-south-bend-st-louis-misleading.html |url-status=live}}</ref>