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Seems to be a mix of both Republicans and Democrats representatives of these districts. California has 8 cities in the top 20 according to this list, and Arlington VA tops the list.
We ranked 303 cities with populations over 100,000 people from most to least safe in this analysis. The following summaries show the safest cities overall, the safest large cities, and the most dangerous cities from the analysis and their total cost of crime. The full data set including the city's population, cost of crime, and crime rates by type of crime are included at the end of this study.
There's an ongoing stereotype that larger cities are more dangerous. While no larger cities (population of 300,000 or more) made the overall safest list, fewer than half of the 15 least-safe cities in the U.S. were large cities. Four of the cities that are least safe also rank in the top 15 best cities to buy a home during the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting that even cities that are not among the safest places to live can be attractive markets for homeowners.
And on the flip side, the top 5 worst (never seems to change):
The safest cities over 100,000 people (Via the methodology used, which is discussed).
Where you are in each city definitely makes a difference. I just spent much of 3 1/2 weeks in one of the most dangerous cities on the list (Jackson, MS), and I never felt unsafe. However, most of my time = East of I-55 (and up to one block west of I-55) and close to the border with Madison County (the wealthiest county in MS}...I would imagine one of the statistically safer areas of Jackson.
FWIW, I’ve been to 269 of the 303 cities on the list, and I’ve lived in 5 of them, Including 3 in the top 50.
Seems to be a mix of both Republicans and Democrats representatives of these districts. California has 8 cities in the top 20 according to this list, and Arlington VA tops the list.
And on the flip side, the top 5 worst (never seems to change):
St. Louis, MO
Baltimore, MD
Detroit, MI
Jackson, MS
Memphis, TN
Lists like this almost always favor suburbia or the Gotham/Metropolis setup because unlike other places, suburbia can exclude the blue collar workers needed to run a fully independent city. But since suburban cities only contain the white collar workers who often work somewhere else, and the blue collar folks in many cases can't even afford to live in the exact suburb they work in the methodology is iffy.
When talking actual cities- Bend, McAllen, College Station, Fort Collins, Rochester are the actual cities. McAllen and College Station both technically offload blue collar workers to The Other Valley Cities and Bryan respectively but I think they can get a pass. I'm unsure of the situations of the others.
The rest of this list is in suburbia, with some of the iffy ones being Provo which is technically a satellite city of SLC. Raleigh would be next on this list but it's in a similar relationship with Durham.
I feel it's not bad list, but when talking how well run a place is politically you have to look at a metropolitan scale because if the hood is in the city over, what your doing is drawing an imaginary line and it's not like Americans are actually doing better in your area. This list also supports the Sunbelt because we tend to have large suburban boundaries and thus tons of suburbs over 100,000, while other regions have mostly smaller towns.
Here are the Farmers Insurance Group’s Most Secure U.S. Places to Live
Large Metro Areas (500,000 or more residents)
1) Madison, Wis.
2) Des Moines–West Des Moines, Iowa
3) Syracuse, N.Y.
4) Austin–Round Rock, Texas
5) Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine
5) Rochester, N.Y.
6) Honolulu, Hawaii
7) El Paso, Texas
8) Bethesda–Gaithersburg–Frederick, Md.
9) Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Wash.
10) Pittsburgh, Pa.
11) Minneapolis–St. Paul–Bloomington, Minn.
12) Nassau–Suffolk Counties, N.Y.
13) McAllen–Edinburg–Mission, Texas
14) Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk, Conn.
15) Raleigh–Cary, N.C.
16) Albany–Schenectady–Troy, N.Y.
17) Wichita, Kan.
18) Buffalo–Niagara Falls, N.Y. 19) New Haven–Milford, Conn.
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How the hell New Haven ever made this list is a mystery to me. Nothing safe about that college town, like most college towns. Mildew, CT.......err, Milford is so bad that when I swiped my debit card at Walmart, my bank called me within 10 minutes to verify it. I asked why, and they said that that particular Walmart had the highest rate of fraudulent credit card use.
And there's no way El Paso -- crawling with illegal aliens and the problems they bring -- is going to be on this list next year.
Aspen, CO is a very safe place. Billionaires don't use guns to rob people...
Yes, they're all heavily black-majority cities. Is that the point that you were trying to make?
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