What do they have in common? You guessed it!
CQ Press released it’s annual list of http://os.cqpress.com/citycrime/2009/CityCrime2009_Rank_Rev.pdf from CQ Press states that many factors contribute to the reason crime may be high, including “composition of population”. Interestingly, the “population” they refer to is a “concentration of young people”. The more likely reason the list is controversial is that the top fourteen cities have a higher percentage of non-European derived peoples.
See for yourself:
http://os.cqpress.com/citycrime/2009/CityCrime2009_Rank_Rev.pdf