Why list the most dangerous neighborhoods in America rather than just sticking with the traditional city and state breakdown. Well the answer is relatively simple and makes all the sense in the world. Let's take for example my home town and 2008's most dangerous city! Even in New Orleans, last years most dangerous city in America, many areas or neighborhoods are very, very safe, while others average multiple murders nightly. So in my opinion listing the most dangerous neighborhoods rather than city is much more accurate. The data is brought to us by NeighborhoodScout.com who collects data from all 17,000 local law enforcement agencies in America, and uses a relational database to aggregate the statistics from each agency to the municipality that they protect. This provides an accurate representation of the total crimes and actual crime rates within any given city or town. The most dangerous neighborhoods are based on violent crimes from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports and reflect the following: murder and manslaughter, rape, armed robbery, and aggravated assault. The findings are based on real data and used to predit the number of violent crimes in a neighborhood per 1,000 people. Not only is the data excellent for evaluating violent crime but could and should be utilized by government leaders, consumers and private business for a variety of reasons. Without further delay, we bring to you the Top 10 Most Dangerous neighborhoods in America as reported by Dr. Andrew Schiller and NeighborhoodScout.com. Number 10. Richmond, Va. Neighborhood: Church Hill Found Within ZIP Code(s): 23223 Predicted Number of Annual Violent Crimes: 169 Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 132.45 Your Chances of Being Victimized Here (in one year): 1 in 8 Number 9. Dallas, Texas Neighborhood: Route 352/Scyene Rd. Found Within ZIP Code(s): 75210 Predicted Number of Annual Violent Crimes: 249 Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 132.87 Your Chances of Being Victimized Here (in one year): 1 in 8 Number 8. Kansas City, Mo. Neighborhood: Forest Ave./41st St. Found Within ZIP Code(s): 64110 Predicted Number of Annual Violent Crimes: 240 Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 133.11 Your Chances of Being Victimized Here (in one year): 1 in 8 Number 7. Memphis, Tenn. Neighborhood: Warford St./Mount Olive Rd. Found Within ZIP Code(s): 38108 Predicted Number of Annual Violent Crimes: 272 Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 135.93 Your Chances of Being Victimized Here (in one year): 1 in 7 Number 6. Kansas City, Mo. Neighborhood: Bales Ave./30th St. Found Within ZIP Code(s): 64128, 64127 Predicted Number of Annual Violent Crimes: 220 Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 144.93 Your Chances of Being Victimized Here (in one year): 1 in 7 Number 5. Baltimore, Md. Neighborhood: North Ave./Belair Rd. Found Within ZIP Code(s): 21213 Predicted Number of Annual Violent Crimes: 361 Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 149.98 Your Chances of Being Victimized Here (in one year): 1 in 7 Number 4. Jacksonville, Fla. Neighborhood: Beaver St./Broad St. Found Within ZIP Code(s): 32204, 32202 Predicted Number of Annual Violent Crimes: 47 Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 185.77 Your Chances of Being Victimized Here (in one year): 1 in 5 Number 3. Miami, Fla. Neighborhood: 7th Ave./North River Dr. Found Within ZIP Code(s): 33128, 33130, 33136 Predicted Number of Annual Violent Crimes: 393 Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 207.28 Your Chances of Being Victimized Here (in one year): 1 in 5 Number 2. Chicago, Ill. Neighborhood: State St./Garfield Blvd. Found Within ZIP Code(s): 60609 Predicted Number of Annual Violent Crimes: 275 Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 264.17 Your Chances of Being Victimized Here (in one year): 1 in 4 Number 1. Cincinnati, Ohio Neighborhood: Central Pky./Liberty St. Found Within ZIP Code(s): 45210, 45214 Predicted Number of Annual Violent Crimes: 457 Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 266.94 Your Chances of Being Victimized Here (in one year): 1 in 4 So there you have it. Is your neighborhood included or near any of these areas? See if your neighborhood makes the top 25. If you live in or near any of these areas you need to take extra security measures. Visit us today for self defense, home security and surveillance products.