St. Louisan here. What's really impressive about our murders is that basically ~95% of them take place within two small neighborhoods inside St. Louis city limits, which itself is but one small subsection of the metro area, which actually has a population hovering around 3 million. Those two neighborhoods, Dutchtown and North City, are impressively dangerous, so dangerous that even diluting them with the rest of the city still places us at the top of "most dangerous cities" lists year after year.
Population of St. Louis: 312,000
Population of NYC: 8,537,673
http://amp.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article191211704....