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    10 Most Dangerous Cities in the US (#1 is the highest cost of crime)   
      
       St. Louis, Missouri   
       Jackson, Mississippi   
       Detroit, Michigan   
       New Orleans, Louisiana   
       Baltimore, Maryland   
       Memphis, Tennessee   
       Cleveland, Ohio   
       Baton Rouge, Louisiana   
       Kansas City, Missouri   
       Shreveport, Louisiana   
      
      
   Crime In America: Study Reveals The 10 Most Unsafe Cities In 2022 (It’s   
   Not Where You Think)   
      
   Crime is surging in the US—and it’s only getting worse. Homicides   
   increased by 7% in 2021 and gun violence has been on the rise since 2014,   
   with deadly shootings in large cities up by 80%. MoneyGeek, a personal   
   finance technology company, recently analyzed crime statistics in nearly   
   300 cities with populations over 100,000 to rank the most dangerous cities   
   in the US, as well as the safest cities in America—a useful list for   
   everyone from travelers to concerned citizens.   
      
   MoneyGeek compiled the list of most dangerous cities in America and safest   
   places in the US by using the cost of crime per capita, which was based on   
   standardized crime data from the FBI combined with research on the   
   economic cost by type of crime. The total societal cost of crime for these   
   cities? An estimated $203 billion in 2020. Read More: To see the most   
   recent list of the most dangerous and safest cities in the US, check out   
   Report Ranks America’s 15 Safest (And Most Dangerous) Cities For 2023.   
      
   The team at MoneyGeek says it did this report on the most dangerous cities   
   in the US because it is interested in all aspects of Americans’ financial   
   lives. “[Safety] ties into both understanding home buying as well as   
   insurance. Crime and economic opportunity are also correlated. Where we   
   choose to live has impacts on our wallets, jobs and opportunities,” says   
   Doug Milnes, MoneyGeek’s chief of data analytics. “Travelers can use this   
   report to understand the relative safety of these cities across the   
   country that they may be visiting. For some that may mean avoiding a less   
   safe destination all together and for others that may mean making   
   different itineraries or taking different precautions in a given city.”   
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   A new list ranked the most dangerous cities in America and the safest   
   cities in the US. The results ... [+]getty   
      
   This is the second year that the team at MoneyGeek has run this analysis   
   of the most dangerous cities in America and safest places in the US, and   
   they found that crime increased in cities across America from 2019 to 2020   
   (the latest full year that data was available). “Overall we saw a 15%   
   increase in the cost of crime and the median increase was 11%,” says   
   Milnes.   
      
      
   Determining The Most Dangerous Cities in America   
      
   There were several US cities that had increases in crime that were   
   significant. “It’s worth noting popular tourist destinations like Seattle,   
   New Orleans and Chicago were amongst cities that saw increases in the cost   
   of crime,” says Milnes. “In Chicago the cost of crime increased by 29%, in   
   NOLA the increase was 40% and in Seattle it was 42%. These percentage   
   increases can hide some numbers. NOLA’s increase in the cost of crime was   
   on top of an already high cost of crime. We saw 70% of cities in America   
   reported some increase in the cost of crime.”   
      
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   So why should people care about the cost of crime? Two reasons, says   
   MoneyGeek. “The cost of crime we’ve calculated provides weights that can   
   help us understand relative differences in crime rates that captures the   
   impact of the crimes reported,” says Milnes. “Second, the cost of crime   
   estimates used in our rankings reflect all of the costs of crime in a   
   community: The impact to the victim and the community and remind us all   
   that crime has an impact on our communities. I’d like to believe that the   
   cost of crime reminds us how communities that struggle with crime pay for   
   it in a variety of ways.” St. Louis most dangerous city in America   
      
   St. Louis was named the most dangerous city in America.getty   
      
   In its analysis, MoneyGeek ranked 297 cities with populations over 100,000   
   people from most to least safe. Coming in at the bottom of the list was   
   St. Louis, Missouri, which was named the most dangerous city in America.   
   Milnes says it’s hard to know why St. Louis is so dangerous, but one   
   factor might be the fact that it’s struggling economically. “The   
   population has decreased over time rather than increased like the   
   population of America and the GDP of the St. Louis metro area has grown   
   slower than the overall country since 2001,” says Milnes.   
      
   So should you avoid St. Louis in your travels? “As a traveler, it comes   
   down to your tolerance for risk and the activities you’re planning on   
   doing,” says Milnes. “There are likely areas within St. Louis that are   
   worth avoiding for safety reasons, but that doesn’t mean that one can't be   
   safe there.”   
      
      
      
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