United States - Miami

Florida has the second highest crime rate of all 50 states and Miami is America's second most dangerous city. In 1995, 41.3 million tourists flowed through Florida, so it may not seem like a big deal when one or two of them are offed. A Dutch tourist couple on their way to a shopping center in west Dade was robbed and murdered on February 23, 1995. After a brief respite of two years, it seems that the tourist death toll is beginning to climb again. The Dutch tourists were lost in the seedy area of Liberty City in Dade County in the mid-morning. Many tourists are victims of bump-and-rob scams in which the perpetrator rear-ends the victims on the highway and then robs them as they pull over to exchange info. Miami is home to thieves who like to create confusion by spilling food, asking directions or bumping into you while their accomplice grabs your belongings. These folks tend to be from South America. In July 1997, fashion designer Gianni Versace was gunned down by a homosexual serial killer in Miami's trendy South Beach. Haitian seamen have been dropping like flies on freighters at Miami's docks. A July 1997 massacre aboard one freighter left six Haitian crewmen dead in an ongoing series of assaults on cargo ships by bad guys looking for drugs to steal. And speaking of drugs, the DEA's Miami office confiscated 16,465 pounds of cocaine during the first nine months of fiscal 1996. That was more than five times the amount seized in Houston and four times the amount nabbed in L.A. during the same period. In 1996, the U.S. Customs Service seized 70,000 pounds of cocaine, an increase of more than 50 percent over 1995. The Cali cartel makes Miami its North American home, and the DEA says South Florida is home to more cocaine traffickers than it was a decade ago. Sonny Crockett, where the hell are you?

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