Here is the top ten list:
1 Detroit, MI 884,462
2 St. Louis, MO 346,879
3 Flint, MI 118,256
4 Oakland, CA 398,834
5 Camden, NJ 80,071
6 Birmingham, AL 233,577
7 North Charleston, SC 87,655
8 Memphis, TN 680,828
9 Richmond, CA 103,106
10 Cleveland, OH 452,759
They are not the officially dangerous cities, but just according to the private research group CQ Press's 14th annual report ”City Crime Rankings: Crime in Metropolitan America” which was published on Sunday. It is based on the FBI’s Sept. 24 crime statistics report.
CQ Press' report looked at 378 cities with at least 75,000 people based on per-capita rates for homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and auto theft. Source: CiP & PnD