If you didn’t like the last 34 stories about how St. Louis ranks high in crime rate, well guess what?! Still true. Maybe you should move.

Don’t move to Camden, NJ though. They are the only place worse than us. Which means the worst has happened…freaking Detroit did better than us in this list. Super. Weak.

The newly release book “City Crime Rankings 2009-2010″ not only has a great catchy little title, but also lots and lots of PDFs with numbers and letters on them, all saying St. Louis is the 2nd-worst crime city behind the Goodfella’s home base in Camden, NJ.

The purpose of City Crime Rankings is to serve as a resource for researchers, city and law enforcement officials, and the community. The book provides the means by which individuals can compare local communities to other similar communities through comparison to the national level of reported crime as well as crime rates per 100,000 of individual types of reported crime, violent and property crime categories, and overall crime.

The crimes tracked by the UCR Program include the violent crimes of murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault and the property crimes of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. These are also sometimes known as “Crime Index” offenses; the index is simply the total of the eight main offense categories.

The overall city crime rankings top 10 are as follows along with our assumed reason:

1. Camden, NJ – Gangsters and the Situation. That would make us want to kill someone too.

2. St. Louis, MO – I think it might be the proximity to Illinois.

3. Oakland, CA – Not sure, but my research of watching the movie “Friday” 10 years ago tells me that Deebo might be on the loose again.

4. Detroit, MI – No way are they really this low. Where are you hiding the bodies Detroit? Tell us! Someone poke the Lions’ offensive line with a stick.

5. Flint, MI – Wait. Maybe this is where Detroit put the bodies.

6. New Orleans, LA – Having permanently pruney hands for the last five years would make you stabby too.

7. Birmingham, AL – Hey everybody! Wanna go to Birmingham?! …didn’t think so. That general attitude probably has something to do with it.

8. Cleveland, OH – You did this Lebron James. Yes, this data is from last year, but that just means they knew it was coming.

9. Jackson, MS – Both sides till bumming about that whole slavery ugliness.

10. Memphis, TN – It’s Memphis.

Go blind reading all the data at os.cqpress.com/citycrime/2009/CityCrimeRankings2009.htm

According to the Globe-Democrat, managed to kill 24 less people in 2009 than in 2008.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department reported there were 143 homicides recorded in the city for 2009. That’s 24 fewer than the 167 homicides reported in the city during 2008. Police departments record crimes such as homicides that become part of the FBI’s Uniform Crime statistics

24 of you got away…and St. Louis pissed.

You think you’re going to get away with this?  Pffft.  Maybe in Salt Lake City, but not here.  Not in one of America’s most dangerous cities.   24 people cheated death in St. Louis last year and St. Louis hates cheaters!

Ha ha ha…another funny article from Punching Kitty!  Well laugh it up buddy.  You just wait until 2010 ends with exactly 24 more deaths than in 2009.

Though we didn’t start until a little after the new year with Punching Kitty, and of course, there was our little multi-month, unplanned “break,” we’ve had a good first year here.

Here, in order of most page views, are our most popular stories:

1. Breaking: KFNS Producer Arrested on Rape Charges
2. Update on the KFNS Producer Arrested on Rape Charges
3. When You Account for the Season, the Cardinals Aren’t All That Cheap
4. Free Beer for Ladies: August Busch IV is Back on the Market
5. Is This the Final Goodbye From The Bull’s Craig Cornett?
6. The Cubs Suck: Snow Version
7. We Got a Letter From Charles Jaco Last Night!
8. Did Charles Jaco Fake a Desert Storm CNN Report?
9. Now the Whole Country Gets to “Enjoy” Dana Loesch Like We Do
10. The Internet Hate Machine Turns On Kurt Greenbaum

That’s a pretty damn good list of some of the fun stuff we did this year methinks!

Did anything not make the list that you thought would?

We are going to hit you later with a list of our favorite posts from 2009 despite what the numbers say, so if you have any suggestions for those, let us have em!

Real quick review for those that may have forgotten or never heard of it:

Radio is the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light.[1] Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space. Information is carried by systematically changing (modulating) some property of the radiated waves, such as amplitude, frequency, or phase. When radio waves pass an electrical conductor, the oscillating fields induce an alternating current in the conductor. This can be detected and transformed into sound or other signals that carry information.

Good, we are all up to speed now.

Here are the overall St. Louis Radio ratings, provided by Arbitron, for Spring 2009:

Things of note:

- In the latest from the Battle of the Sports stations, 101 ESPN (WXOS) creeps up to a 1.4, which is low, but pretty high in compared to the other combatants.  590 The Fan (KFNS) comes in at a 0.6 and 1380 The Team (KSLG) right behind them with a 0.5.  These numbers make sense just based on range alone, but another thing to note is that the time to make the big numbers is the “Summer” book since that is when the two AM stations can have their signal be the strongest for the longest time.   Its also worthy of pointing out that WXOS needs the bigger numbers way more than the other two, since the little AM stations basically can run on the same amount of money Sally Struthers gives to those Ethiopians each day.

- KMOX is still a monster.

- Are the Cardinals playing?  Oh well then give KTRS their extra points.

- Kind of a big drop from the Arch (WARH): 6.0 to 4.8.  Weird.

- The Point (KPNT) is just hanging on in there.  Though I have no evidence, I just get the feeling the Point might not be long for this market.

Those that know more about this than I, or have particular feelings for any of these stations, feel free to weigh in in the comment section.

As always, if you have some information you want to share with me about any of these stations, you can do so anonymously, by emailing tips at PunchingKitty dot com, or by calling and leaving a message on the tip line: 314-266-TIPS