by John Mac Ghlionn
Eleven U.S. cities rank among the 50 most dangerous in the world, according to a recent report published by Numbeo, a global quality of life database. All 11 are governed by Democratic mayors.
Three U.S. cities — Baltimore, Memphis and Detroit — are ranked among the 20 most dangerous cities on the planet.
The three cities have more in common than just violent crime. All three are run by Democrats.
Baltimore ranks #15 on the annual dangerous cities list, with Memphis and Detroit close behind at #18 and #19, respectively.
Brandon Scott, just 38 years of age, is the mayor of Baltimore. Jim Strickland Jr., an attorney and politician, is the 64th and current mayor of Memphis, where the Memphis police department has just announced plans to permanently deactivate the unit that five of the officers involved in the vicious beating of Tyre Nichols belonged to. Mike Duggan, meanwhile, is currently serving as the mayor of Detroit.
Two more U.S. cities run by Democrats appear among the 30 most dangerous in the world: Albuquerque (#23), where 45-year-old Tim Keller serves as the 30th mayor, and St. Louis (#27), where Tishaura Oneda Jones has served as mayor since April of 2021.
Tracking back for a wider view yields a still grimmer perspective for Democrats, as another six Democrat-run cities rank among the world’s 50 most dangerous: New Orleans (#35), Oakland (#38), Milwaukee (#40), Chicago (#43), Philadelphia (#46), and Houston (#50). Again, all of these cities are run by Democrats.
Numbeo’s report contains both a Crime Index, which is an estimation of overall levels of crime in a given city, and a Safety index. A city with a high safety index is considered very safe. A city with a high crime index is considered anything but. If a city’s crime levels are lower than 20, for instance, this is considered excellent. Crime levels between 20 and 40 are considered good; crime levels between 40 and 60 are moderate; crime levels between 60 and 80 are considered high. Finally, crime levels higher than 80 are considered dangerously high. The Safety Index, meanwhile, is ranked in the completely opposite way, with scores higher than 80 indicating that a city is very safe, and scores under 20 indicating that a city is borderline uninhabitable.
Baltimore has a Crime Index score of 75.5 and a Safety Index score of 24.5. “Charm City” finds itself sandwiched between Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, and Rosario, Argentina’s third-most populous city.
In 2019, then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr referred to Baltimore as the country’s “robbery capital.” Although the comment was deemed controversial by some commentators, it is amply substantiated by crime statistics. Last year, the city of 576,000 experienced a sharp spike in robberies, with robberies of convenience stores jumping by 300%. Baltimore also suffered a sharp increase in homicides.
Some 900 miles away, in Memphis, overall crime increased by more than 8% last year. By August of 2022, 4,501 crimes had been reported in the downtown area of the city, 600 more than had been reported by August of 2021, according to the city’s Data Hub.
In Detroit, more than 220 officers left the police department last year. Long known as the automobile capital of the world, Detroit has, in recent times, become more closely associated with assaults, shootings and homicides. On New Year’s Day, for instance, a total of 6 people were shot, one of them fatally. Five days later, a 16-year-old was killed and an 11-year-old was injured in yet another shooting.
Democrats have often been labeled “soft on crime” by their opponents. The latest Numbeo report will do little to stem such denunciations.
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John Mac Ghlionn is a contributor to Just the News.
Photo “Crime Scene” by Derek Bridges. CC BY 2.0.
Where are the comments
Testing testing my Giveashitometer. Tap tap. Yep flat zero. It’s working fine. The people there asked for it, they are getting it. Enjoy.
The elected officials are only a mirror reflection of the population of these cities. Bad people are electing other bad people. It is just the major characteristic of the democrat party that it is full of bad people.
Democrats promote murder and mayhem.
It keeps them “in business” with making constant disingenuous promises and providing endless blame that serves to permanently divide people.
Where is Camden on this list?
I don’t know why everyone leaves Jackson, MS off of their best of / worst of lists. The residents here are working HARD to produce numbers that fall at the extremes of lists like Numbeo’s! Currently, Jackson is an 80.22 on the crime index and a 19.78 on the safety index. You have to acknowledge that those are genuinely-competitive statistics with other big league players, like Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore, etc.!
Come on folks! If Jackson consistently works to produce world-class high crime / low safety numbers, at least give us the recognition we deserve!
Staying out of all big cities.👌🇺🇲
It’s not the Dimms or ReThugs…it’s “The People”…who rules them does not matter…
True, people are just brainwashed by their rulers. Your post proves it.
Absolutely not true. The statistics do not support your claim
What is it then about “The People” in Democratically dominated cities that is so vastly different about “The People” in the rest of the country?
“The People” in those 11 U.S. cities are, in fact, largely Democrats, who elect Democrats, who govern like, well, Democrats! No surprises there.