When I watched some true crime documentaries, I was quite surprised how many of those occurred in small, quiet towns or the suburbs. Maybe it’s because people are less suspicious of others or being a part of a relatively smaller community gives them a sense of security and reassurance since everybody knows everybody else.
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However, there are many small towns in the US where violent crime rates can go as high as 33.1 per 1,000 residents like in Bessemer, Alabama for example, with a population of 26,000. So, based on FBI and Census Bureau data compiled by NeighborhoodScout, Visual Capitalist created a map that showed which US cities were the safest.
Take note that the dataset only included cities with a population of 25,000 or higher, and violent crimes referred to arson, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, murder, rape, armed robbery, and aggravated assault.
The results showed that almost 40% of the safest cities were in Massachusetts, mostly around Boston. The safest city is Ridgefield, Connecticut with a total crime rate of 1.9 per 1,000 residents. The chances of someone being a victim was 1 in 510. Meanwhile, Carmel in Indiana was the only city in the top 100 to have a population of over 100,000.
The team also found that many of the safest cities were near some of the most dangerous ones. One such example was Detroit, ranked among the top ten most dangerous cities in the US, whose neighboring towns like White Lake have very low crime rates. -via Reddit
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Source: neatorama