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CNN Money rolled out another in a long line of successive disses on Cleveland in its recent Most Dangerous Cities roundup.

While we all collectively yawn, here are the deets:

Cleveland comes in at a hearty #4 on the list, beat out by the likes of Detroit, St, Louis and Oakland:

Burglaries were one of the biggest issues facing Cleveland residents in 2011, with the number of break-ins and thefts climbing by 8.6% from the previous year. That gave the city the second highest burglary rate in the country — next to Toledo, Ohio.

Street crimes — robberies and assaults — also continued to soar, with Cleveland second only to Oakland among the nation’s 72 largest cities.

One area of improvement: The number of murders fell to 74, from 81 the year before.

Two years ago, USA Today’s highly renowned analytics team pegged us at #10 on their own list.

This article appears in Jan 16-22, 2013.

Eric Sandy is an award-winning Cleveland-based journalist. For a while, he was the managing editor of Scene. He now contributes jam band features every now and then.

5 replies on “And Yet *Another* Unsettling Ranking For Our Fair City!”

  1. What??

    Good thing the cops are out there writing tickets for speeding and jaywalking…
    Freaken’ cashiers with guns I’ll tell ya…

  3. Hey, it could be worse. We could be living in Oakland, CA. Did you watch the network news last night? The vice mayor walks around wearing a bullet-proof vest! Or worse than that, we could be pizza delivery drivers in Akron!

  4. I took my kid to school this morning, picked up my wife from work at the West Blvd. Rapid Station. All in a 30 minute period. I Counted 19 Cleveland Po-Lice cars hiding for red light/stop sign violations. Nothing for speeding though as they would have had to open the PUBLIC OWNED Po-Lice car windows to put the laser out and the poor babies would get cold and freeze to death.. What really yanks my chain is they park on sidewalks and on Private Property. HEY FRANKIE POO INACTION JACKSON !!! What ever happened to Po-Lice cars aren’t supposed to sit there and idle burning and wasting fuel ? We sure be protected against that MAD Mother that’s taking her kid to School by the diligent Fund Raisers for Mayor SIEG HIEL Jackson. PSSSSTTTTT whats the next illegal tax you gonna foist upon us Herr Fuhrer ?

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