Murder City USA: St Louis's Record Breaking Murder Rate

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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( note: we weren't able to record in the studio so audio is off a bit) The murder capital of the United States isn't Chicago, Baltimore or Detroit - it's St. Louis, Missouri, which for each of the last **SEVEN** years in a row had has the highest murder rate in the United States. The city just finished 2020 with a record breaking murder rate of 87 per 100,000 people, making it the deadliest city in the world not in Mexico or Brazil. A city of only 300,000 people, it had twice as many murders as London, population 9 million. This is the story of how St Louis became the murder capital of America; guns, gangs, drugs, poor policing, population loss, disappearing industry, concentrated poverty, and a history of systemically racist policies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Underworld podcast. It is 2021. I am one of your host
0:11.8	Danny Gold and I'm here with Sean Williams and things have already got it off to like a disaster kind of you know
0:18.5	Sean's in New Zealand our audio producer might have COVID.
0:24.0	So yeah, the quality in this might not be great.
0:28.0	There with us, you might hear people in my neighborhood yelling at each other,
0:31.0	just the way things go down, you know know we're keeping it gritty over here.
0:33.6	Yeah I mean you're gonna hear maybe some parrots going crazy on my end it's
0:38.2	pretty amazing here it's like bright sunshine I'm on an island somewhere outside
0:41.8	open it's quite idyllic but there's like some pretty loud
0:44.7	birds so that's all you're going to get on mine.
0:46.2	It's kids in New Zealand listen to parrots. I'm here you might hear some degenerates yelling at each other
0:50.5	outside my window but anyway thank you guys for joining us.
0:55.4	This is the podcast where we talk about organized crime
0:58.1	and various criminal phenomenons and things of that nature.
1:01.6	This is our first episode for 2021.
1:03.6	We're gonna keep it moving,
1:04.8	but this episode, it's gonna be a little different
1:07.1	than I think what we've done in the past,
1:09.0	mostly because it's something that I'm interested in,
1:11.3	and I've reported on a lot, and it's kind of being completely ignored in US national media to the point where it's kind of a disgrace.
1:19.0	And you know this is a free podcast so bear with me. You know if you pay for the patron you can you
1:22.8	can yell at me all you want but uh I think it's gonna be interesting yeah like
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