Jay,

I am quite familiar with quite a few cities on both list having
lived in Michigan, Massachusetts, New York and have brothers and
sisters spread out from the East Coast to West Coast. If you fly
commerical airlines, many times, you don't have any choices but to land
at big airports in the so-called crime cities. Unless one get really
lost, got off the wrong exit etc and wander into bad neighborhoods,
thousands and thousands of passengers have safely flown in and out of
Detroit, St. Louis etc.

Small GA airports can locate anywhere big or small cities but from
my limited flying experience in the last 5 years, most appear to locate
in nice areas free of crimes.

Of course it is expected that big cities with many ghetto areas are
not as safe as tony suburbs. Your average criminal don't live in
expensive neighborhood and the rich tax base helps to provide good
local services including police protection. Sometimes it seems that
too much wealth is concentrated in too few areas. Of course poverty is
no excuse for crimes but there is a strong linkage. It's the chicken or
the egg question.

Hai Longworth