If someone had predicted at merger time that Louisville would have a higher murder rate than these other big cities, they'd have been laughed at. This amounts to a catastrophic failure by local police, federal agencies, the courts and the lawmakers of the last 5 years who allowed this to happen. It takes a village to really f--k up this bad. Highest murder rates 11. Louisville, 12. Tulsa, 13. Newark (Tony Soprano's area), 14. Philadelphia, 15. Milwaukee, 16. Pittsburgh, 17. Oakland and Washington