How We Rank the Cities:
SafeWise carefully calculates its safety rankings by analyzing and weighting the total number of crimes of a given city in relation to its population and other significant factors. All American municipalities with more than 10,000 residents were considered. SafeWise then identifies relevant safety, health, and educational information and programs that help make each “Safest City” more secure.
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Lots of room for fudging toward liberal nonsense.
They didn’t seem to be able to fudge away from the obvious correlation of low crime rates and demographics.