These Are America's 10 Most Dangerous Cities

Epoch Times ^ | 10/18/2023 | Joe Gomez

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Democratic mayors are in charge of almost all of the United States' 10 most dangerous cities, based on analyses of the latest available national data on violent crimes and the cost of crime.

NeighborhoodScout and MoneyGeek used different methodologies to gauge the most violent and costliest crime cities, although five of the cities ended up on both lists.

NeighborhoodScout’s report is based on the number of violent crimes per 1,000 residents in cities with 25,000 or more people. The data are based on the number of violent crimes reported to the FBI in each city, projections of violent crime rates based on prior years’ data, and the population of each city, according to the company.

MoneyGeek analyzed the most recent crime statistics from the FBI to estimate the societal cost of crime per resident in 263 cities that have populations greater than 100,000.

10 Most Dangerous Cities

NeighborhoodScout says it matches crime incident data from "all 18,000+ local law enforcement agencies in the U.S. to the specific local communities the agency covers, and hence in which community the crimes have occurred."

The organization considers homicide, rape, armed robbery, and aggravated assault as violent crimes.

Its most dangerous city is Bessemer, Alabama, with a violent crime rate of 33.1 crimes per 1,000 residents. Bessemer is a suburb of Birmingham, which comes up sixth on this list and second on MoneyGeek's "cost of crime" top 10 list.

NeighborhoodScout lists Monroe, Louisiana, as its second most dangerous city, with a rate of 26.3 violent crimes per 1,000 residents. Monroe sits halfway between Shreveport, Louisiana, and Jackson, Mississippi.

In third place is Saginaw, Michigan, with a violent crime rate of 25.1 per 1,000 residents. Saginaw is about 100 miles northwest of Detroit.

Rounding out the top 10 are Memphis, Tennessee; Detroit; Birmingham, Alabama; Pine Bluff, Arkansas; Little Rock, Arkansas; Alexandria, Louisiana; and Cleveland.


(The Epoch Times)

Several mayoral races in the above cities are run as nonpartisan elections, which means all candidates are in one pool for voters.

However, all but one of the cities are run by mayors who are either Democrats or are affiliated with the Democratic Party. The exception is Monroe, Louisiana, whose mayor, Friday Ellis, is a Republican-turned-independent.

Cost of Crime Top 10

MoneyGeek's data measure the cost of crime per capita in cities of 100,000 or more. It doesn't drill down to cities as small as NeighborhoodScout (25,000) but ends up with a very similar list and five exact matches.

“Crime and safety are intertwined with prosperity, income, and economic opportunity. Crime is costly to individual victims, perpetrators, communities, and society at large,” the finance company posted on its website.

Overall, MoneyGeek calculated the cost of crime in 2021 was $1,836 per capita in U.S. cities, up 6 percent, or $100 per capita, since 2020.

The company says it analyzed crime data, including violent crimes such as murder, rape, and aggravated assault and property crimes such as home burglary and motor vehicle theft. MoneyGeek omitted any cities that didn't report murder and rape.

It calculated the cost of crime based on the "direct economic costs of crime to individuals and society."

This includes the medical and mental health care costs for victims and the damage to and loss of property, and the costs for police and corrections, MoneyGeek stated in its report.

"Aside from the imminent danger of crime, people living in higher crime areas see depressed home values and pay higher prices for crucial needs, including home insurance, renters insurance, and auto insurance," the report states.

Ranking No. 1 on MoneyGeek’s list is St. Louis, which has an estimated crime cost per capita of $8,457, according to the finance company. Democrat Tishaura Jones was sworn in as the 47th mayor and the first black female mayor in the city’s history on April 20, 2021. Her predecessor was also a Democrat.


(The Epoch Times)

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[TwelveOfTwenty]

Miami Florida has a majority black and brown population, with a Hispanic mayor, yet they rarely show up on these reports. What's more, at least through 2018, their crime rate was dropping faster than the national average. So what's different about them?

Their mayor is a Republican.

[Deplorable American1776]

Now, for comparison, I’d like to see the SAFEST cities in America, and the mayor’s party affiliation.

[nikos1121]

Bessemer Alabama is the home of Bo Jackson

[Bonemaker]

Who they voted for.

[Subcutaneous Fishstick Blues]

ok, but I don’t think Detroit is 91.2% white.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[Sooth2222]

Most violent crimes are never reported to the police.

Bureau of Justice Statistics: "About 46% of violent victimizations were reported to police in 2021"

For a more accurate assessment of crime in your city, it ay be more accurate to count murders (because it's hard to hide bodies) and car thefts (because insurance companies require a police report).

[Churchillspirit]

"I am very surprised Chicago isn't on there."

Me too. Must be something to do with per capita. Chicago is a big 'town'.

[Vaduz]

Indeed and some people say it’s racist to ask the question Who’s your daddy.

[1Old Pro]

How many of those mayors are white? It may sound racist but it's actually a pertinent question.

A more important factor is what is the population of these cities; race, employment percentages, welfare, school performance.

[CodeToad]

All cities are dangerous in America, not just 10 or so.

[ifinnegan]

I think you are mixing up the word freed with enslaved.

[GOPJ]

But, but, but - the FBI, DOJ, Homeland Security, and the SPLC tell us the most dangerous people in the country are White Middle Class, Middle Aged American men who consider themselves Christians...

And yet, NONE of these high crime 'communities' listed look like MAGA cities.

Am I missing something here? Or are the FBI, DOJ, and Homeland lying to the country for totalitarian thug reasons?

[cowboyusa]

Wow, Philly not on there.

[Zhang Fei]

[Actually, up to the 1960s, black communities had relatively low rates of crime, illegitimacy, and other social pathologies.]

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While it would have been nice if this were true, it wasn’t reality, at least not for homicides. Black homicide rates were similar to those in the 80’s and slightly higher than today’s. How much of this is related to improved survival rates from ag assaults due to advances in emergency medicine? Who knows? Page 13 of the paper below gives a summary of the per capita homicide rate over the decades.

https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1219&context=trotter_review

[Rockingham]

I stand corrected. Thank you for pointing out my error. I dug into the literature and official data and wonder how I got things so wrong. My guess is that it is due to some poorly remembered bit that I read years ago. I hold to my larger point: that Leftist policies have aggravated crime rates and other pathologies for Black Americans.

[MinorityRepublican]

Blame LBJ for that.

[Reverend Wright]

The numbers for Blacks are 12 does 60. The 12 percent of the black population does 60 percent of the violent crime.

By ratio, the 9.5% in Knoxville is responsible for 48 percent of the violent crime.

Without them the Knoxville rate would be Crime rate = ~25