Anyone who's familiar with U.S. cities as a whole will probably not be surprised by this:
In compiling their data, Wallethub assessed more than 180 cities across 41 indicators of safety.
This ranged from traffic fatalities and assaults per capita as well as levels of unemployment and the number of citizens that are uninsured. ...
Coming out on top as the safest place in the states was Nashua, New Hampshire, while St. Louis, Missouri, was considered the most dangerous.
Oof. St. Louis. The Gateway to the West and the most dangerous city in the country.
This has actually been known for a while. You may recall in the classic 1983 film Vacation that the suburb of East St. Louis was shown as an absolutely crime-infested nightmare of a city:
And man, it sure earned its ranking this year:
Last year, there was 200 murders in the city, which was a decrease on the year previous - dropping from 201 in 2021.
The city likewise "tied with several others as having the worst assaults per capita rate in the county."
If you've been reading Not The Bee for a while, you've seen the stories:
The safest city in the country, meanwhile — Nashua — last year "reported a six percent decrease in crimes against people from the year previously," with under a thousand "crimes against people" reported in 2022.
Here is Daily Mail's handy map of all the winners and losers:
(Not sure how Chiraq missed the list!)
If you're looking at real estate in St. Louis, well, don't. The Marxist experiment there is coming to its inevitable end.
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