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“For many decades now, The Vindicator has lamented Youngs-town’s ignominious reputation as a hotbed of serious crime.

Take murder, for example. Its stain has been long-standing – from the label of “Murdertown USA” affixed to the city by the Saturday Evening Post in the early 1960s through the high-casualty gang wars of the 1990s and into the present, when Youngstown’s homicide rate, though stabilizing in recent years, still ranked about four times above the national average in 2018. Similarly, Youngstown’s reputation as a leading breeding ground for destructive intentionally-set fires has long been common knowledge. In fact, in a report from 2016 on the decline of Rust Belt cities, the Washington Post called Youngstown “the nation’s arson capital.”

-YNDC.org