Re: Nevada - most dangerous state in the U.S!!??
If people are basing these "most dangerous" cities and states from the Morgan Quitno Press "study", you might be off base. Morgan Quitno says that they base their rankings from FBI crime statistics, but the FBI explicitly says that you cannot/should not make some general ranking of cities based off their statistics.
The president of Morgan Quitno Press is also a shameless self-promoter, which could also impact the rankings. Morgan Quitno issued the press release that St. Louis was the most dangerous city literally hours after the Cardinals won the World Series. They also "coincidentally" named Atlanta the most dangerous city in 1996 when they hosted the Olympics. Scott Morgan, the company's president, was asked if the timing of these releases were merely publicity stunts, and he could only respond, "Well, I wouldn't call it a 'stunt'."
I wouldn't panic over these statistics.
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