In 2022, the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro area recorded the highest homicide rate of U.S. cities with a population over 250,000, at **** homicides per 100,000 residents, followed by the Memphis, TN-MS-AR metro area. However, homicide data was not recorded in all U.S. metro areas, meaning that there may be some cities with a higher homicide rate. St. Louis St. Louis, which had a murder and nonnegligent manslaughter rate of **** in 2022, is the second-largest city by population in Missouri. It is home to many famous treasures, such as the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, Washington University in St. Louis, the Saint Louis Zoo, and the renowned Gateway Arch. It is also home to many corporations, such as Monsanto, Arch Coal, and Emerson Electric. The economy of St. Louis is centered around business and healthcare, and boasts ten Fortune 500 companies. Crime in St. Louis Despite all of this, St. Louis suffers from high levels of crime and violence. As of 2023, it was listed as the seventh most dangerous city in the world as a result of their extremely high murder rate. Not only does St. Louis have one of the highest homicide rates in the United States, it also reports one of the highest numbers of violent crimes. Despite high crime levels, the GDP of the St. Louis metropolitan area has been increasing since 2001.

In 2023, around 3,640.56 violent crimes per 100,000 residents were reported in Oakland, California. This made Oakland the most dangerous city in the United States in that year. Four categories of violent crimes were used: murder and non-negligent manslaughter; forcible rape; robbery; and aggravated assault. Only cities with a population of at least 200,000 were considered.

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This dataset was created by Donojazz

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In 2025, Pietermaritzburg in South Africa ranked as the world's most dangerous city with a crime rate of 82 per 100,000 inhabitants. Five of the 10 cities with the highest crime rates worldwide are found in South Africa. The list does not include countries where war and conflict exist. South Africa dominates crime statistics When looking at crime rates, among the 10 most dangerous cities in the world, half of them are found in South Africa. The country is struggling with extremely high levels of inequality, and is struggling with high levels of crime and power outages, harming the country's economy and driving more people into unemployment and poverty. Crime in Latin America On the other hand, when looking at murder rates, Latin America dominates the list of the world's most dangerous countries. Violence in Latin America is caused in great part by drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, and gang wars.

FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System (FBI NIBRS) crime data for St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), including incidents, statistics, demographics, and agency information across multiple jurisdictions.

Context

I created this dataset as part of a semester project in an Intro to Data Science with Python class.

Content

Data was compiled from crime reports at: https://slmpd.org/Crimereports.shtml

Acknowledgements

We wouldn't be here without the help of others. If you owe any attributions or thanks, include them here along with any citations of past research.

Inspiration

Your data will be in front of the world's largest data science community. What questions do you want to see answered?

FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System (FBI NIBRS) crime data for St. Louis Community College: Meramec (University or College) in Missouri, including incidents, statistics, demographics, and detailed incident information.

FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System (FBI NIBRS) crime data for St. Louis County Sheriff's Office (County) in Minnesota, including incidents, statistics, demographics, and detailed incident information.

These data are part of NACJDs Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed except for the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompanying readme file for a brief description of the files available with this collection and consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed. The two central objectives of this project were (1) to evaluate the effect on crime of a targeted patrol strategy mounted by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) and (2) to evaluate the researcher-practitioner partnership that underlay the policing intervention. The study addressed the following research questions: Do intensified police patrols and enforcement in crime hot spots result in larger reductions in firearm assaults and robberies than in similar areas subject to routine police activity? Do specific enforcement tactics decrease certain type of crime? Which enforcement tactics are most effective? Does video surveillance reduce crime? How does the criminal justice system respond to firearm crime? Do notification meetings reduce recidivism? Does community unrest increase crime? Did crime rates rise following the Ferguson Killing? To answer these questions, researchers used a mixed methods data collection plan, including interviews with local law enforcement, surveillance camera footage, and conducting ride-alongs with officers.

ContextAn increasing body of research has linked the geographic distribution of lead with various indicators of criminal and antisocial behavior.ObjectiveThe current study, using data from an ongoing project related to lead exposure in St. Louis City, MO, analyzed the association between aggregate blood lead levels and specific indicators violent crime within the city.DesignEcological study.SettingSt. Louis, Missouri.Exposure measureBlood lead levels.Main outcome measureOfficial reports of violent crimes were categorized as 1) crimes involving a firearm (yes/no), 2) assault crimes (with or without a firearm), 3) robbery crimes (with or without a firearm), 4) homicides and 5) rape.ResultsWith the exception of rape, aggregate blood-lead levels were statistically significant predictors of violent crime at the census tract level. The risk ratios for each of the outcome measures were as follows: firearm crimes 1.03 (1.03–1.04), assault crimes 1.03 (1.02–1.03), robbery crimes 1.03 (1.02–1.04), homicide 1.03 (1.01, 1.04), and rape 1.01 (0.99–1.03).ConclusionsExtending prior research in St. Louis, results suggest that aggregated lead exposure at the census tract level predicted crime outcomes, even after accounting for important sociological variables. Moving forward, a more developed understanding of aggregate level crime may necessitate a shift toward studying the synergy between sociological and biological risk factors such as lead exposure.

The dataset shows the homicide data for the city of Baltimore from the years of 2007 all the way till present and updated almost monthly. Baltimore ranks 2nd on the highest murder rates in the United States, only second to St. Louis in Missouri. The data is obtained through the website, Baltimore Sun Homicide News through a Creative Commons License. The data shows details such as cause of death, police district in which the homicide occurred, and the name, age, gender and race of the victim, and more.

Graph and download economic data for Combined Violent and Property Crime Offenses Known to Law Enforcement in St. Bernard Parish, LA (DISCONTINUED) (FBITC022087) from 2004 to 2021 about St. Bernard Parish, LA; crime; violent crime; property crime; New Orleans; LA; and USA.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of St. Louis Park Crime Prevention Fund

Combined Violent and Property Crime Offenses Known to Law Enforcement in St. Louis County, MN was 674.00000 Known Incidents in January of 2021, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Combined Violent and Property Crime Offenses Known to Law Enforcement in St. Louis County, MN reached a record high of 1178.00000 in January of 2005 and a record low of 616.00000 in January of 2019. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Combined Violent and Property Crime Offenses Known to Law Enforcement in St. Louis County, MN - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on November of 2025.

Combined Violent and Property Crime Offenses Known to Law Enforcement in St. Louis County, MO was 9856.00000 Known Incidents in January of 2021, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Combined Violent and Property Crime Offenses Known to Law Enforcement in St. Louis County, MO reached a record high of 12572.00000 in January of 2008 and a record low of 8712.00000 in January of 2014. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Combined Violent and Property Crime Offenses Known to Law Enforcement in St. Louis County, MO - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on November of 2025.

FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System (FBI NIBRS) crime data for ST LOUIS CITY County, Missouri, including incidents, statistics, demographics, and agency information.

FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System (FBI NIBRS) crime data for St. Louis Police Department (City) in Michigan, including incidents, statistics, demographics, and detailed incident information.

Detailed crime statistics for San Luis, Argentina 2024. Official crime data by departments, serious crime rates, and crime trends.

Context

This dataset looks at the number of movies produced in the United States of America that fall into the "crime" genre between 1985 and 2017 and compares it to violent crime rates of the same time. The time frame was chosen based off of accessible data (The Movies Dataset ends with 2017 and the FBI's CDE tool starts at 1985).

The data for the movies and genres was pulled from "The Movies Dataset" on Kaggle where columns were adjusted and the first two genres were kept. The data was then filtered to only include films released in the United States of America from 1985-2017. Violent crime data and population data in the USA was then joined.

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movies-to-crime_data_by_population_1985-2017_2023-03-06.csv: This file contains the filtered and sorted data joining together the rest of the included data.

movies_data_cleaned_V2.csv: This includes a large movie dataset that was pulled from the aforementioned "The Movies Dataset" and adjusted for usability for this project, find original dataset here.

population_data_1985-2017.csv: This data was pulled from the World Bank, Population, Total for United States [POPTOTUSA647NWDB], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

violent_crime_rates_USA_1985-2017_2024-03-06.csv: This data was pulled from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's "Crime Data Explorer" tool. Data pulled includes all violent crime 1985-2017. More information concerning how violent crimes are categorized can be found on the Crime Data Explorer's website linked above.

Acknowledgements

All data was sourced via publicly available datasets and linked to above. Special thanks to Kaggle user Rounak Banik for their work creating "The Movies Dataset" which was incredibly helpful.

Inspiration

This project was a side project to gain further practice with tools such as SQL, R, Tableau and spreadsheets. It began with a focus on authors of crime novels vs amount of actual criminals. The project soon morphed into this after a struggle to find usable datasets.

Associations between lead exposure and violent crime types, St. Louis City, MO.