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Little Rock Voted #1 Most Dangerous Mid-Sized City In America

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The 10 Most Dangerous Mid-Sized Cities In America By Movoto Real Estate http://www.movoto.com/blog/top-ten/most-dangerous-mid-sized-cities/ Editor’s Note: This ranking is based on an analysis of official  FBI crime data from 2012 . Cities were compared using crime rates per 100,000 residents, a standard analytical practice, in order to objectively and fairly compare places of different sizes. No matter where you go, there’s going to be crime—from the big cities, to the small towns, to everything in-between. It’s the latter we’re going to be taking a look at in our latest crime ranking, which is a follow-up to a post here on the  Movoto Real Estate  Blog from January of this year. In that ranking, we highlighted  the safest mid-sized cities  in the country. This one is the other, tarnished side of that coin: the most dangerous mid-sized cities in America. If you read the aforementioned post, the number one place in our top 10 will come as no surprise. It was Little Rock, AR, a

Arkansas ex-cop killed while trying to set anti-corruption blogger’s hot dog cart on fire

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Arkansas ex-cop killed while trying to set anti-corruption blogger’s hot dog cart on fire (via Raw Story ) A former police officer died while trying to set ablaze a food cart belonging to a blogger who exposed crooked cops and other corrupt city officials. ArkansasMatters.com reported Friday that former Little Rock Police Officer Todd Payne died when blogger…