“I think ‘St. Louis’ means the Metropolitan Area…”

No, just the opposite. At the turn of the 20th Century, St. Louis City seceded from St. Louis County because it did not want its tax money used to expand the metropolitan area beyond its natural borders. As a result, all of the growth that occurred in the 1920’s and 1950’s occurred in St. Louis County, not St. Louis City.

As a result of that, St. Louis City is a fairly small area of mostly slums with just 300,000 residents unable to dilute its violent crime statistics with the 1,000,000+ residents of St. Louis County.

Most other major American cities have areas just as violent as St. Louis, but they also have areas within the city with much lower crime. In the St. Louis region, those low-crime areas are almost all outside the city limits.

So the statistics are skewed.

I believe there are California cities that should be on the list. Maybe they aren’t large enough. Stockton for instance might be too small.

And what does 30,000 car break-ins per year in SanFrancisco do for their status? Nothing – but people consider all the facts not just homicide rates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwdYpMS8s28

This is where the woman was arrested with a garrotte after breaking a window.

Deconstruction begins by me:
First the person who introduced Dr. Peterson mildly discussed freedom of expression.

At 9:50 the protestors start in with the disruptions..
At 10:48 Dr. Peterson says, “That’s pure narcissism at work btw”

At 21:30 the banging on the doors start. Between 10:48 and 21:30 was a remarkable discussion.

Makes you wonder….

As for Pinker, here’s a dissenting opinion:
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/02/unenlightened-thinking-steven-pinker-s-embarrassing-new-book-feeble-sermon

The pattern here is the mixing of white and non-white culture (South-America is 50% Spanish or Portuguese and 50% indigenous, only exceptions are Chile, Paraguay Argentina). White institutions are still strong enough to report the bodies, but the society has become violent and dangerous. Is South Africa the African country with the three most dangerous cities in the continent? Or is the African country that still keeps institutions professional enough to report the body count?

Same can be said about US cities.

The routine violence against the kafir is not actually even deemed a crime… and is sanctioned by the police… if you want to call them that.

Pakistan
Iran
India

Their numbers are off the hook.

See this.

One scholar named Steven Pinker published “The Better Angels of Our Nature” in 2011. His thesis was that violence had declined over the centuries, and he identified six possible reasons.

Here is some of the data for that.