The REAL Most Dangerous US Cities. Facts vs. Opinions.

The REAL Most Dangerous US Cities. Facts vs. Opinions.
Today we look at the actual most dangerous cities in the United States. Most people have opinions on what the most dangerous cities are, most of those opinions are way off from the reality and the stats.
Chicago is the poster child for this. Everyone thinks they are the worst when it comes to violent crime. It's not true. Chicago isn't even in the top 10. Neither is San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Portland, Oregon.
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[@maria_getty]

What the heck! It feels almost illegal to see his face 😂

[@lovenature2251]

😂😂Right!!

[@garciasfruitsveggiesandcan7337]

OMG it's weird ain't it? Did not expect him to look like he does....pictured him in my head WAY DIFF!!!!! LOL loves his vids regardless

[@violetqueen450]

Okay before watching the video, I'm going to guess that Detroit, New York City, and New Orleans are the most dangerous cities. Let's see if I'm right

[@anthonyjackson1446]

Right his voice made me think he was 29 or 38 at the most, dark or dark brown hair maybe look somewhat like a Payton Manning looking dude ..🤔🤔🧑🏼‍🦱

[@lovenature2251]

@@garciasfruitsveggiesandcan7337 OMG..Yes. I did the same thing 😂Now I got to adjust to this new face after all this time...🤣

[@NSgeg765]

The most violent cities according to social media comments is NY, Chicago, SF, LA, Seattle, Portland etc. when none of those appear in any top violent cities. More crime per capita in Rockford or Bakersfield. I think many people just assume cities that are in the media a lot or have problems with homeless are by default the most dangerous cities.

[@quaaaaaaaar]

there's more crime in denver than any of those cities actually

[@spicychad55]

Lmao never take social media comments seriously. Almost never right about anything.

[@naptime0143]

Don't believe Fox news 😂

[@ag4allgood]

@@naptime0143 Its an entertainment channel for right wing propaganda not a News channel. Being sued BIGLY !

[@JP-jd8wr]

​@@ag4allgoodsadly it's still the most watched and believed "news" despite the fact.

[@kristinverge9889]

I lived in Colorado for about 4 years in the early 90's and visited St Lois for work. I had a free day so, not knowing she the markets were, I took a taxi. I realised it was not far from my hotel. Being from Australia I told a stall holder I'd been chatting to that I was going to walk back. He looked at me like I was insane, told me I couldn't walk there and called me a taxi. After watching this I was very grateful!!

[@thebighousencaaattendancer478]

The craziest part of this video is that Chicago isn't even the most violent city in Illinois!

[@painkillerjones6232]

Is Decatur still number one "per capita" ?

[@thebighousencaaattendancer478]

@@painkillerjones6232 Where is Decatur? I honestly never heard of it.

[@painkillerjones6232]

@@thebighousencaaattendancer478 Well, it would be in Illinois, of course.

[@bjs301]

Lifelong Ohioan here, and you recited the Brown's motto: "Love the Cleveland Browns, but I'd never want to live in Cleveland". I can't believe I missed Detroit. For some reason I convinced myself crime had fallen with the big population decline.

[@seanmcdirmid]

Hey what about Toledo? If you think Detroit is bad, wait till you see its little brother just south of the border.

[@bjs301]

@@seanmcdirmid I know Toledo well. It's on major drug and sex trafficking pipelines, but it's violent crime rate has taken a dip since 2021, and right now it's not in Ohio's top 10. I hope it stays that way.

[@UnicornDreamsPastelSkies]

Probably because some criminals just do not have the literacy, job skills and income they need to even hope to move out of that city... if they did, they probably would not still be criminals. That and teen pregnancy could possibly explain Little Rock's slight population rise as well despite their crime rate.

[@Hogtownboy1]

It did. They pretend that the area past 8 mile doesn’t count. LA doesn’t have suburbs. LA county contains most of LA. Most of the other cities on this list are surrounded by wealthy suburbs including Detroit Cleveland and oakland

[@seanmcdirmid]

@@UnicornDreamsPastelSkies You are assuming that they are from the city in the first place, when they are more often than not from small towns in the region.

[@seanchristophersynthesizer6999]

As someone of 1/2 Hispanic ethnicity who was born in SoCal. I do agree with the theory of "we'll take care of it ourselves" theory. I have cousins over there who have told me some crazy stories. Soooo glad I got out of there by joining the Army back in the late 80's.

[@cruzloera4931]

Glendora? I only see rich white people now. Has it changed that much?

[@seanchristophersynthesizer6999]

@@cruzloera4931 lived next door in Azusa. Glendora was the hospital that I was born in.

[@higgs923]

@@cruzloera4931 I graduated from Glendora High School in the mid-Sixties. The student body was lily white - not one person of color - during the four years I attended. I live in Glendora now and it's more diverse though not by much.

[@danmur2797]

@@cruzloera4931 It hasn't, Glendora is still full of rich white people. Maybe a little more diverse, but still rich.

[@danmur2797]

It's also an exaggeration. I'm full Hispanic and lived not far from Glendora. Azusa has always been a dive, even for Hispanics. Glendora was more uppity. However this is really exaggerated. The troublemakers usually got in trouble one way or another. I generally feel safer in the San Gabriel Valley and SoCal than many other regions. I would leave my laptop unattended at a coffee shop, or car doors unlocked, and I didn't worry about what would happen. In contrast I visited areas of NYC or Denver where I did feel unsafe if I didn't watch my stuff.

[@marena3511]

Thanks Briggs for mentioning the possibility of stats being a little (or a lot) off from actual reality due to unreported crimes. Living in Hawaii the last 15 years, I can tell you the numbers are definitely higher than the stats.

[@Debo6778]

memphis Tennessee would fall into that category

[@Freedom-ht1ih]

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[@Tom-tg2jl]

California big box stores have stopped reporting shop lifting, so the theft numbers are down if you ask the government but wayyyyyy up if you look at shrink reports

[@andyblanzy2693]

Remember being in Hawaii around 2005. Guy escaped prison. Asked my wife, we’re on an island, where are they going to go?

[@garytucker3563]

Never been in Hawaii, but I've seen videos that show that the side of Hawaii not tourist developed is dangerous.....there are Blood affiliated gangs there now!

[@enokradfonos8686]

This always makes me think of a friend that came from a "backwoods" small town area in the Midwest and moved to a larger city's less desirable area. When I asked him what he thought of it he said he grew up in a trailer park where he heard gun shots almost every other day there. His family had to fix walls more than once for bullet holes. His new city place didn't have near as many gunshots and no holes in the wall, yet. The cops were at the trailer park constantly, but where he lived in the city wasn't that bad. At the trailer park people were getting stabbed all the time, there were several deaths, drug deals and busts were common, and people cooking meth. The big thing he brought up was the skin color was different and that is why people make it seem worse in the city than back in the trailer park. He was Caucasian living in a highly non-Caucasian area of the city, the trailer park was all Caucasian. It was really interesting to hear his perspective of actually living in a city area that was deemed unlivable by many people and to say it was less violent and crime ridden than the small town area he grew up in was an eye opener for sure.

[@Heathcoatman]

This is actually quite typical. I grew up in Los Angeles and not an expensive neighborhood. I guess it would be considered lower middle class. Someone fires a gun or yells for help in the city and within 10 seconds 30 people have called the cops. The cops show up in 90 seconds. I lived out in the country in the south for about 8 years and I never felt less safe or more vulnerable in my life (and I was in Iraq). I wont elaborate on the reasons, lets just say it's the wild west.

[@Realmotion2000]

Them trailer parks no joke

[@deanfirnatine7814]

That is so far beyond the norm, but people love these kind of one off incident arguments to poke holes in reality.

[@enokradfonos8686]

@@deanfirnatine7814 Telling an anecdote of someone's personal experience "pokes a hole in reality"? Who's reality?

[@ggsimmonds1]

@@enokradfonos8686 Because the problem with anecdotes is that people will think the scenario from the anecdote applies across the whole when it most likely doesn't. I'm in a similar boat as your friend. I grew up in Baltimore but moved to a small rural town in SE Texas and I see where your friend is coming from, but I think it is wrong. My current area of residence has a significant problem with Meth addiction. Yes, this leads to a lot of crime, but its usually non-violent crime. but since the town is so small, when violent crime does happen the entire town knows and talks about it. Everyone knows Joe Lee stabbed Jimbo, and then next week when the cops are at Tricia and David Lee's trailer home due to theft, domestic dispute, or any other non-violent crime, it feeds into that violent crime opinion. The 2 other things that come to mind -- the majority of violent crime is typically limited to "in circle" crimes. Drug dealers commit crimes against other dealers, gang members commit crimes against other gang members etc. Its possible that your friend only saw so much crime in his backwoods town because of their circle being involved in those activities, and when he moved to the city he was an outsider and wasn't directly impacted by crime as much. Lastly, all people are just prone to hyperbole and exaggeration

[@loveydovey89]

I live in Chicago and my husband's family from Cleveland always asks us how we do with all the crime LOL I'm like... how do you do with the MORE crime? hahaha

[@iv4792]

I did for 2 years in the 90s.

[@tastyneck]

I'm not calling your husband's family dumb but that's what stupid people and the people who only watch a certain 'news' channel think. They can't fathom that cities are big with different types of neighborhoods and isn't literally and entirely filled with the crimes being reported about them. My city, like most others, as issues that are largelyt centered around certain areas but that those issues aren't really dealt with in the rest of the city. My city is 49 square miles and people are constantly making ignorant comments about the whole city being covered in homelessness because that's what they're told to think and what they want to believe. When you're not in the neighborhoods dealing with the majority of that, it's beautiful, generally safe city with insane views. But, nah, it's a liberal city therefore there's nothing good about it and they turn a blind eye to their own city's issues. Sorry for the rant.

[@JdeC1994]

Homicides per 100 K (2022) Chicago: 25.8 Cleveland: 45.7 🙄🙄

[@tastyneck]

@@JdeC1994 lol stats dont lie

[@nobody-hp7fg]

@@tastyneck what is this certain news channel

[@Joyless13]

I’m not american but I reckon Memphis, St Louis and Pine Bluff/Little Rock may crack a top 5 spot.

[@Joyless13]

Well, even though I got it right I must admit I thought Memphis was #1.

[@skipperson4077]

well done, here have a gun....* I don't think those cities have ever not had some violence, Midwest/Southern rust belt although they all have potential. I really wouldn't expect non-Americans to know this!!

[@hoopty.]

I live in Castalia, Memphis, and I know the numbers are high, but I don't see it by living here. I question the numbers all the time.

[@Joyless13]

@@skipperson4077 now that you gave me a gun I can finally apply for an American citizenship! Just kidding. I’ve been an avid Briggs viewer for a decent amount of time. I got to know a thing or two about the US through him, but I have to say that if wasn’t for the videos I wouldn’t even know Little Rock was a city lol, some things are just hidden too deep for people who’re not into the country itself.

[@Joyless13]

@@hoopty. I sure never been to Memphis, hope one day I will, but I gotta tell you that from my perspective it doesn’t seem to be that dangerous. That’s only personal opinion I might add. Being from Brazil I’ll probably tell you that Siria isn’t that dangerous if you compare it to a few places from my country so don’t take me as a trustable source.

[@tomtompkins6779]

I enjoy your videos. Been watching them for a long time. I think some of the conflict about what people see as violent comes from the fact that depending on what part of any given area you live, maybe the violent part may not be the violent part. So you can go to any of these cities and find excellent neighborhoods. But those other neighborhoods that aren't so excellent are also there. And of course that's what makes the numbers turn out like they do.

[@katjones7760]

I would watch another video but I follow you so closely I've seen them all! Keep up the great work!!! Looking forward to the next one!

[@DoloresJNurss]

Thank you for contrasting truth versus assumptions!

[@Visavislespoir]

Chicago's violent crime stats are also very interesting, because they're heavily skewed by certain communities. This is especially true for murder, which is mostly concentrated in specific communities on the West Side, like Garfield Park. Most of North Side and the close in regions of West and South Side are extremely safe by big city standards, and the moment you go out of the city and into the suburbs, the crime rate drops rapidly (though the outer suburbs have their own problems of commuting times and sheer boredom).

[@buckshot6481]

So Mayor Beetlejuice was okay after all ? 😂

[@queenkjuul]

​@@buckshot6481not good, but like everything about Chicago, not as bad as they said on the news either

[@queenkjuul]

I always laugh when fox news viewers tell me downtown Chicago is a warzone because i go downtown every week and never once felt in danger for even a second lol. Garfield Park? Different story. But even big chunks of the south side are safe, pretty, and friendly

[@shaykosovac8722]

​@queenkjuul nice city. Unfortunately it's number one in homicides

[@queenkjuul]

@@shaykosovac8722 another person who literally didn't watch the video lmao The murder rate in Chicago is not top 10. How do you still not get how statistics work after he literally explained it in this video

[@laurataylor8717]

I was expecting people to say NYC because there are so many people there, but honestly I've walked around NYC alone at night and as long as I wasn't being stupid about it, never felt unsafe, so I'm glad it didn't make the list.

[@ggsimmonds1]

NYC is finally breaking away from the reputation it earned in the early 90s when it was considered a war zone with the number of homicides. Today for a city its size it is remarkably safe

[@sextond]

I have lived in a lot of cities: Baltimore, Phoenix, Tucson, Salt Lake City, Huntsville, AL, Nashville, Houston, Dallas, and now Boston. Weird, but the big scary Northeast city of Boston is the one where I feel safest of them all.

[@BillMorse-jr2ou]

Boston seems forgiving at times, but expensive..... the other cities perhaps not

[@user-tn2pe7uf2d]

What did you think about salt lake City?

[@sextond]

@@user-tn2pe7uf2d It was not as safe as you would think for a "Mormon" city. There were a lot of shootings there when I lived there in the late 90's/ early 2000's.

[@user-tn2pe7uf2d]

@@sextond I was born and raised there

[@sextond]

@@user-tn2pe7uf2d I worked at Myriad Genetics when I lived there.

[@rustyberry4405]

My three were St. Louis, Baltimore and Detroit because of seeing similar videos. Surprised New Orleans wasn't on the list and have been told several times Jackson, MS is a place you just want to drive through as well. I hope these cities can turn things around because many have things I'd want to checkout

[@melendyladyboykin2482]

I've heard the Greyhound buses won't even stop at night in Jackson, MS. They will let people out somewhere in Pearl. I don't know that for a fact though.

[@THECA]

@@melendyladyboykin2482It’s not a fact. Lol Greyhound isn’t located in Jackson anymore. They just use a Truck Stop in Pearl.

[@melendyladyboykin2482]

@@THECA I didn't know that. Thanks.

[@moappleseider1699]

They wont turn anything around. Multiple decades in a row of failed left wing policies and they still vote democrat every time without fail... well lots of fail actually.

[@painkillerjones6232]

@@THECA Gee, wonder why.

[@markwarmke6766]

Great video. An idea might be what the top 10 were 10 years ago vs now. I bet most are the same, but curious if any had any major improvements and what they did.

[@thatsnotparanormal6265]

Great, very informative video. Would love to see a similar video on the least dangerous U.S. cities.

[@the_k9_cpt]

Wow! Always happy to meet a fellow veteran. Thank you for your service, brother!

[@brad4231]

Really interesting to see geographically how violent crime can be scattered (or concentrated). I’m from Tupelo, MS and also spent years growing up in Northeast Texas. So I had a certain proximity that allowed me to keep up with Little Rock, Memphis, and (to an extent) St Louis. Growing up tho, Shreveport, LA & Bosier City were always on the news for drive by shootings and murders

[@kerrynight3271]

I grew up not too far from Shreveport, and that was the city we always drove to for school clothes and to eat at the great cafeterias. I was shocked when I learned about 10 years ago how violent the city has become.

[@elsenorgatito]

Shreveport and Bossier City are also songs by the greatest (them or Alabama) country band of all time, Turnpike Troubadours.

[@ag4allgood]

@@elsenorgatito Never heard of your greatest country band !

[@nedruss7040]

To be fair, the news in any city is drive-by shootings & murders. It's the nature of news. That single drive-by gets the top billing. That's the way it was in Baltimore, but also Honolulu, which is way less violent. One other thing that distorts the stats is that different jurisdictions have different statutes defining crimes. Several cities have lowered serious crimes to misdemeanor level. This is more common in recent years. I've never seen any serious work on how legal codes involving violent crimes have changed, but given the insane level of degradation in other felonies to misdemeanor status, some violent crimes almost certainly fall into this category as well. Also, what denotes a violent crime? Is the threat of violence (a form of assault) included even if no physical violence occurred? Does ransacking a store count as violent crime? it sure seems violent to the people who own the store, their employees, & their customers.

[@angelcitygirl]

Native Angeleno here. Thank you for the shout out. Definitely not an aggressive town though it's so large geographically that you have the Valley, LA proper, LA County etc. so it might be higher depending on that.

[@supersaturn956]

Nice work

[@danmur2797]

I agree, LA is not generally aggressive. I've felt safe enough to leave my laptop out unattended while going to a Starbucks bathroom, or car door unlocked in the street. I can say that in NYC, I never really felt I could do that. Or in a number of other cities. LA gets a rap from the 80s and 90s.

[@ilovetotri23]

So I did ok. I picked St Louis and Detroit. Very surprised Chicago did not make the list. I know it is so large that the stats make less dangerous. Great video Briggs!

[@rickhall517930]

Thanks Briggs. These types of videos are great.

[@heatherwhittaker6169]

You are the best at this type of information,and the only one I listen to,thank you ❤️

[@acbc3543]

Uncle Briggs! Austin Texas used to be safe but not anymore. True story .

[@r.pres.4121]

Austin has grown too big for its britches. I used to live in Austin a long time ago. Have no desire to either visit or move back.

[@acbc3543]

@@r.pres.4121 no problem. I still live in Austin and I still love this place . There’s no perfect place but Austin is still perfect for me .

[@theeddorian]

I had a friend who lived in Stockton 30 years ago. The apartment hired an MMA fighter as security - things went down hill when he left for a competition. The area had been "improved" hoping to attract more money. A small group of teens moved in, tagging the building and generally making a nuisance while the security was overseas competing. Shortly after he returned, the tagging stopped. Oddly, several teens suffered red, orange or yellow faces.

[@RJLbwb]

About the same time I was at a convention in Stockton and the hotel staff warned me not to walk to a store or a restaurant.

[@Rhaspun]

I grew up in Stockton. Left for college and ended up working and living in the Silicon Valley area. I'm now retired. I grew up on the rougher side of town but it wasn't as violent when I was young. One thing I did notice over the years is that a lot of criminal elements from the SF Bay Area come into Stockton. Often times I will see in the daily local paper that many perps seem to come from Oakland, Antioch, Pittsburg and a couple of other cities over and over. This is besides others coming in from other Central Valley towns. They seem to gravitate towards Stockton. One time a murder happened in a apartment complex. After about a month the PD arrested someone who was from Oakland who was visiting a friend in Stockton. When my parents were still around they stayed in the neighborhood. A couple of neighbors had kept an eye on my mom when she was out doing yard work. The immediate neighborhood was quiet. The troublemakers would be people walking through going to other neighborhoods.

[@theeddorian]

@@Rhaspun Stockton and Sacramento are both crossroads in the valley if you're heading north and south, or east and west. During the '70s the overall economy deteriorated. It continued downhill right into the '90s. Troublemakers do tend to come in from outside. On the run-up to the 2020 elections there were some serious riots in Sacramento where the arrested came from as far away as L.A. to throw rocks and bottles, and do casual looting. Stockton hjad one on of the best used bookstores on the planet in a warehouse over off Cherokee. The owner didn't actually want to sell the books. His shelving was old fruit crates with multicolor lithographs that were collectible in their own right.

[@Rhaspun]

@@theeddorian I remember a few of the people arrested during a protest a couple of years ago. A couple of them were from Soutern Cal and a couple others were from the SF Bay Area. It looks like they live for protests since it will give them a chance to mix with the crowd as they start problems for everyone.

[@theeddorian]

@@Rhaspun I live in Sacramento and the rumour here was that the outsiders, who caused the majority of the havoc were actually paid to come to the rally. The organizers were not happy. Downtown was boarded up, business in the tank, and the police seriously paranoid.

[@davidevans3429]

Great video. Where did you get your statistics? I have a few places that I would like to research.

[@markhuber8345]

The metra line just announced that they are going to extend train service from Chicago to Rockford. The new station is to be developed in Huntley illinois. FYI, Huntley illinois is where del Webb sun city is, I bet the seniors can’t wait !! Thanks Briggs… I always look forward to on this day.

[@violetqueen450]

How about a video on the most dangerous small towns? I just found out that my hometown of Winslow Arizona has 1,151 violent crimes per 100,000 people! I had no idea!

[@jjorjojo]

There's not enough people to get an accurate number.

[@jjorjojo]

@gunnytinman The population is less than 10,000 and it's in the middle of nowhere. That place can experience half the homicides of Cleveland and have the same murder rate as Cleveland.

[@deplorablecovfefe9489]

Cleveland is non-stop police sirens. Like a 24/7 background noise that never goes away....lol you know your getting close when you start to "hear" Cleveland.

[@jchow5966]

This was really good! Thank you for another interesting & well made episode. NEW ORLEANS. LA. SAN FRAN. PHEONIX. DETROIT.

[@noelj317]

Can you do the opposite next?like safe cities or best place to raise a family. Actual vs opinion

[@williamsummerson1204]

Great video suggestion.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

There are none

[@noelj317]

@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN oh so no Plano, Arlington, Naperville, Cape Coral?

[@NSgeg765]

Safety can be relative though. Some people assume any city where you may get panhandlers is dangerous.

[@quaaaaaaaar]

@@noelj317what of philadelphia, minneapolis, irvine, and seattle?

[@paulanthony6931]

Thank you for your service to our country. A fellow US Army vet here too. We enjoy the content you share with us. God bless you 🇺🇸

[@BAD46660]

Thank you for your service.

[@paulanthony6931]

@@BAD46660you are welcome and God bless you 🇺🇸

[@Quandtimus]

thank you for serving and protecting this great country! 🤝

[@Heavywall70]

Fayetteville, Columbus Ga, El Paso, Jacksonville NC, pretty much any military town could make the list imo

[@dvolkov76]

Wow! You actually looking a place to hear a gunshots?!

[@therrendunham5594]

Interesting and informative video. It would have been nice, though, to preface everything with the fact that violent crime overall has trended downward over the last 30 years.

[@alexnoskov1041]

I really like this opinion vs facts type of videos!

[@aaronboyd2211]

Facts are facts and as a fellow show me state resident you are spot on with that #1 pick St. Louis is pretty rough

[@rahuliyer7456]

Former Chicagoan here. I am born in the city proper on the West Side. My family till lives in Lincoln Park West and Old Town. Yes, Chicago gets a bad reputation, because of the media and corruption, but it has surprisingly lower crime. Chicago has a politics and corruption problem. Rockford IL, it's an old factory town that's seen better days. It lost it's industrial core due to globalization. I used to live in Rockford. It's a "h*** hole". I currently live in metro Phoenix (Mesa). It's a city that no one thinks about, and that is fine by me.

[@thomashelminski6351]

I agree. Southeast Phoenix is quiet and not super popular.

[@davidvaladez4662]

I'm from Rockford too, bottom of the barrel.

[@urcookin]

Gary isn’t much better and it’s right there next to Chicago.

[@MkMuphin..]

Rockford is bad, Chicago is not bad at all where tourists go.

[@Visavislespoir]

Fr, corruption and mismanagement in Illinois is generally ass, especially in Chicago.

[@wesleythurman1033]

Thanks! I really enjoy these.

[@mattl6948]

I love your shirt! BTW it’s great to see you in the videos!

[@dennismorgan2230]

Hi Briggs, I grew up in Stockton and when I clicked on the video, I thought….. I wonder if Stockton is on the list? 😆 I often say that Stockton is a great city to be from 😂 My friends who still live there,they totally stick up for it. To the point where I have thought about moving back…..than I come to my senses and stop looking at Zillow 😅 I currently live in Sultan WA and I can handle whatever thug comes my way here…….thanks to Stockton 🤣

[@sr7312]

True story: during the worst snowstorm of last winter one of the Cleveland TV stations went to an ACE Hardware where the (black) owner was talking about how they sold out of shovels and salt and he mentioned someone had even stolen the store's shovel they kept by the loading dock.

[@ShermanMark1]

Yeah, I remember seeing that on the news.

[@nhmooytis7058]

In the 1978 blizzard we walked to Lawson’s, bought 2 bottles of low alcohol apricot Brandy, went home, put the radiators on full blast, and got drunk in bed under the comforter.

[@user-zf4xu9wu9f]

😂 love the commentator to these videos he's really saying honest stuff about and is funny good stuff 💯🤣🤣😆 love the channel 🤙👍🇺🇸

[@bmv9053]

The “wrong” news stations? Just curious, what news stations do you watch, @briggs? Genuine question. Love your videos, btw.

[@joshuagunthner1838]

I think the thing with St Louis is that most people not from the area assume it's a much better place to live than it is. The historical record, the songs "meet me in st louis" for example, the scenery and proximity to other cool places all make you want it to be better than it is. It throws you off when it makes this kind of list as a result.

[@jeffwebb2966]

I love St. Louis as a city resident and it is a great place to live. Crime stats are deceiving and not always accurate if you look at the big metro area.

[@macrc2129]

@@jeffwebb2966 Almost all the violent crimes in the city are in bubbles. Like Dutchtown for example.

[@mathisnotforthefaintofheart]

St Louis is a very segregated city. Once you go out of the city into the county, there are plenty of safe places to live with great public schools, etc. There is more to a city than just a name

[@langhamp8912]

@@jeffwebb2966 I put St Louis at the very top of all US cities as well, far ahead of places like Chicago, SF, and NYC. St Louis has an incredible music scene, and a night life scene, plus it's much more bikable and walkable than most other cities except maybe Seattle. Most of its museums are free, and Forrest Park is what an urban park should be like. Unlike the aforementioned cities, doing most things in St Louis is free, and you can find something to do every single day if that's your thing. A lot of cities I've lived in have sacrifice everything for parking lots. For example, Montgomery AL. Once that happens, there's nothing in the city to make it a city anymore.

[@nottheoneb5854]

I live in Albuquerque. Crime isn’t horrible here. According to the city’s data, the trends on violent crimes have significantly decreased and the crimes that are frequent are theft (like a lot of cities). Life is pretty cheap and simple here and fun for people who like the outdoors and microbreweries in every street lol

[@OldAssSax]

I live in SE Albuquerque and it is pretty bad here (near Kathryn/San Pedro). That being said, we bought our place five years ago this month and have had no direct issues with our place. Plenty of homeless activity in the adjoining alley but they mainly just pass through.

[@imtired6104]

@@OldAssSax Holy cow yeah, you're brave to be over there. My husband and I were looking on Zillow for houses and I spotted a pretty decent one on Edith, not so bad so far, until I saw it was in Martineztown, I was all Nope! Husband was raised in the South Valley, I was raised the the NE Heights.

[@yaxleader]

@@imtired6104 Try Mesa Del Sol, loads of buildup over there with a gym, grocery store, and eatery already in with a brewery and loads of other stuff planned. Every few Thursdays in the summer, there's live music and food trucks at Portrait Park, which also has a community pool. It's 15 minutes or so from most work areas, including the base and the hospitals. I've lived there for 2 years and I'm moving out to be closer with family in a few months, but it's probably the best new neighborhood in Albuquerque imo

[@jeffking4176]

I spent some time in Albuquerque, way back in the 1980’s. I found it not bad. Fairly friendly. I stayed at a motel right off the interstate. 📻🙂

[@urcookin]

It’s the cops really.

[@stevewilde2898]

I live in St. Louis and I won't deny it can be dangerous. But... out of curiosity, how were the stats compiled? Sometimes, the stats are not apples-to-apples because St. Louis isn't part of the surrounding county and the city itself is a concentration of crime in a (hopefully) safer overall metro area.

[@ericmoreau4568]

As a kid, we used to visit raunchy Reno, where my aunt lives...you could say it's a mini version of some of these above nightmarish towns . 😳

[@roydavis2242]

I had St Louis at #1 and Detroit at #2 so I got the top two right. I had forgotten about how bad Rockport, IL is.

[@rahuliyer7456]

Rockford IL. Not Rockport IL!!!

[@nscalefan7739]

I think it would be interesting to see a violent crime rate breakdown by census tracks. As census tracks are by design around the same population that helps equalize everything out. I have seen maps that did this and crime rate doesn't care about lines on the map as a blob of high crime crosses city, county, state, etc borders. It is really eye opening as to just how high the crime rate can get at the census track level.

[@rogerodle8750]

Tracts

[@Fotosynthesis858]

Around the 1990’s, Washington DC was consistently in the top 3-5 in violent crimes. And now they aren’t even on this list. WHAT CHANGED? What did they do to lower the violent crime rates? That’s a video I would be interested in watching ✌🏾

[@eatmanyzoos]

took a bus ride across the country, the greyhound station in st louis looks out at the skyline. the melancholy is palpable.

[@sitdowndogbreath]

I felt that driving a truck thru that sad 😢 city 🌆

[@mikem9892]

Then next stop Kansas City...🤣

[@hideawayhomesllc5103]

I hate to say it, but if you took out the "North Side" of Milwaukee, your violent crime RATE would go way down. The North Side is the 2nd most segregated section in the USA, per the 2020 census. Thank you for throwing in the RATE in the last minute of your video.

[@TheMacPherson]

North Side is wildly segregated, I went to a college in the Menomonee Falls area, and the abrupt transition from Germantown and the Falls to NW Milwaukee is pretty crazy

[@RedStarGOSJ]

Regarding your comment about making a video explaining what people call the freeways in and near their cities, I am from San Jose, making me a northern Californian. We NEVER put "the" in front of our freeway numbers. My family realized this back in the 70's when visiting LA every summer. We don't call it "The 5", it's just "5". "280", "101", "17". We northerners just do not use "the" while describing our freeways. Side note: while in Los Angeles we catch ourselves calling it "The 101"!!! Keep your videos coming!

[@lynleewillette9257]

Boy was I off!! Thanks for clearing my misconceptions up!

[@WorldAccordingToBriggs]

Happy to help!

[@ViburaBlanca]

Briggs face reveal is crazy to me. He sounds young as hell

[@queenkjuul]

It takes serious cable news poisoning to think that NYC, LA, or SF - three of the most expensive locales in the western hemisphere - could possibly be in the top 10 most dangerous lol

[@ayannadivineempathpsychict9838]

Right roflmao they jump through hoops to hate it. We have healthcare worker rights high salaries and great weather. Cali has it all. ❤❤❤❤

[@Weather_Nerd]

@@ayannadivineempathpsychict9838 Born and raised, CA is an absolute shithole. Especially SF

[@SA-hz1rs]

@@Weather_Nerd Florida is

[@pinballinc1752]

This video only covers "violent" crime it is NOT representative of the rampant crimes threatening businesses and people getting their car windows smashed in by thieves. It does not include the fact that 50% of the homeless in this country are in California. It does not include the most disgusting places in this country like "skid row" (LA) for "feces ally" (San Francisco). I've recently traveled to San Francisco and saw first hand the feces riddled streets and needles littering the walkways. It's outright disgusting.

[@pinballinc1752]

@@ayannadivineempathpsychict9838 High salaries...and high taxes. And don't forget 50% of America's homeless live in California.

[@feliciasampson8032]

I was close - should have left it at St. Louis but East St. Louis did get a mention...good job top ten! BTW, my friend in Stockton got his house burglarized twice in one week.

[@necroslair]

Hadn’t thought about “Homicide: Life on the Street” in a long time. Incredible show - especially Andre Braugher’s character Detective Pembleton…

[@ridesharegold6659]

Here's the problem with comparing cities - lots of places, like LA, have lots of bad neighborhoods that aren't in the central city. Compton is not LA. It's its own city. If you want a good idea of what it's like to live in a place you really need to compare metro areas or at least the entire county that way you get the good neighborhoods and the bad.

[@SA-hz1rs]

Miami has a ton of ghetto suburbs

[@Dave-oz8xe]

Compton is not as bad as it was in the 90s, the worst neighborhoods in la metro are in the city of la.

[@Weather_Nerd]

This.

[@ericburton5163]

I agree, but using metro areas wouldn't cause the cities people think of as having high crime rates to be on the list, but rather medium sized metros in the South and West. This is because most Sunbelt have less cities in a metro (which usually is a good thing) compared to Rust Belt metros. So many southern metros have really high crime rates but no individual city does, while in the Midwest, the central cities or certain suburbs have high crime rates but the overal metros are lower ranked.

[@ridesharegold6659]

@@ericburton5163 exactly, every metro area has bad neighborhoods. Metro crime would be an accurate description of the relative level of crime.

[@seanchristophersynthesizer6999]

Even back in the 80's, whenever I went to Stockton (family visits), I only felt happy once I left.

[@noahbawdy3395]

I never felt in danger in New York City. They moved and talked a little faster sometimes. Actually the only times I feel the least bit uneasy or in danger is being around my identical mirror twin and or our adoptive mother. As Johnny Cash once sang, "I've been everywhere man".

[@theeddorian]

In Northern California, you mark yourself as a southerner whenever you precede the interstate number with "the". The usage has been creeping northward, but usually us northerners just say the number, e.g. "take 5 North to Woodland, then drop off onto west 99," or, "if you want to get to South Shore you want to take 50."

[@user-hm1zb8js5i]

I was with my wife travelling to Chicago once and our car broke down in the middle of the night in Rockford. We were scared for our lives.

[@jillwiegand4257]

Rockford has some bad areas in the west side area. But the rest of Rockford is really nice. Millon dollar homes, and many nice suburbs. They are building a Hard Rock Casino by the interstate in Rockford. They are really making it much nicer in the last couple of years. I have relatives in this area and I've visited over the years. Getting much nicer. ❤ Memphis, Baltimore, New Orleans, NY and Philly would be my guess.

[@loveydovey89]

Would have been safer in the murder capital, yep!

[@quaaaaaaaar]

@@loveydovey89chicago is MUCH safer than rockford

[@queenkjuul]

​@@loveydovey89it's like you literally didn't watch the video And yeah i feel way safer in Chicago than in Rockford or the shithole towns in northern Indiana or rural Ohio, that is an absolute fact

[@jjorjojo]

@@jillwiegand4257 NY isn't dangerous. If anything it's one of the safer cities.

[@chillindave1357]

I love the sarcasm! Beautiful!

[@redemptionhappens7725]

Crime goes unreported when you live in an area where the police don’t respond. In Spokane Washington they won’t do anything about theft or cars getting broken into. Won’t respond to attempted burglaries (my screen door was cut open), so there comes a point when you just need to move. I hear the crime rate is dropping and it makes me laugh. The people have simply given up and are putting their energy into moving away. I’ll never move back to Washington or any state that feels sorry for the criminal community and refuses to enforce simple laws.

[@mom.left.me.at.michaels9951]

Same for Portland, I've lived here forever but I'm pretty over it. I was at the hospital the other day and a guy was just blatantly stealing a car out of the garage. I called the police in ear shot, did not phase him at all. Guess he knew they wouldn't do anything but ask me for the license plate number for "insurance purposes". Can you imagine finally getting discharged from the hospital just to find out your car is gone and you have to take the bus home?

[@subjekt5577]

The thing is, the police don't respond anywhere. Even in suburbs it can take hours for them to get there.

[@redemptionhappens7725]

@@mom.left.me.at.michaels9951 I hope you move away from there ASAP. I moved to Charlotte NC. It’s so much better. The police respond. You can defend yourself. No one feels sorry for people who continue to make bad choices over & over & over. No one feels sorry for these able bodied mostly men who are to pvssy to do anything except drugs & crime. I’m never going back.

[@BrianPaulRenfroekamacazikidd]

Minnesotan and former Illinoian here. We don’t use “I” when referring to interstates either. Hell in Illinois, we use the nickname of the interstates “Dan Ryan”, “Stevenson”, etc.

[@mikenixon2401]

Alright my subjective opinion of five violent cities in no particular order: New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, Washington DC, San Fancico. Now, see if I got any correct. Thanks Briggs for your work.

[@robgronotte1]

You got one right!

[@jetsons101]

Briggs, I have been to 49 of the 50 states. This list is almost spot on. Many cities have the problem of smash and grab/shoplifting. When people can steel up to "varies by city" $990 and just get a slap on the wrist, there will be problems. While at a friend's house in a different city, we were in a sporting goods story and some guys just walked in and grabbed armfuls of stuff on the rack and just "walked" out the door like it was nothing......... Great watch

[@ShermanMark1]

What's the state that you have not gone to yet be?

[@jetsons101]

@@ShermanMark1 Alaska. All the others I have been in, not just fly overs. Flying into Chicago O' Hare for a layover doesn't count as visiting Chicago or seeing IL. lol lol Side Note: My favorite small city would be Gettysburg

[@alistairt7544]

Just curious, have you been to any towns/cities where you felt like you can move/live there? When I travel, some cities I could actually picture myself living there and place it on my list of possible cities to move to.

[@citylumberjack9169]

Just to clarify ... smash-and-grab is NOT violent crime. When you rank by property crime alone, the worst three by capita are Albuquerque, Spokane, and Memphis (followed in order by San Francisco, St. Louis, Oakland, Portland, Baton Rouge, Wichita, and Tulsa).

[@jetsons101]

@@citylumberjack9169 Smash and Grab not a violent crime ??????? It looks violent to most people, especially when the "people" doing the crime beat the crap out of innocent bystanders. You must have been hit by a W0KE stupid stick. Leave the basement and get some fresh air and sun, the sun is that big round shiny thing up in the sky. Have a great day, lunch is over, back to work.

[@GraceCase]

Love the shirt, Briggs!

[@loriloristuff]

Milwaukee!!! You are spot on! Also, Madison. You are also spot on about Stockton. And go south to Vallejo. Scary, both. Relatives still in the Bay Area go to neither place. Yes, you're correct on Memphis, Detroit, St. Louis (also East St. Louis).

[@queenkjuul]

Thank you for spreading the truth about Chicago though 🙏 beautiful city full of safe places to go

[@tudorjason]

Three cities I think are in the top 5 are Camdem, NJ; Oathland, CA; and Baltimore, MD.

[@MrLoretano77]

Was suprised Camden didnt make the list.. maybe it is too small to qualify?

[@jdollar5852]

My first trip to Camden was 2005 to visit Campbells. I flew into Philly and rented a car from Avis. Being naive, I accepted the upgrade to a convertible and then drove over the bridge to Camden. White guy from Alabama, convertible, Camden NJ. Nobody shot at me, so I guess I got lucky. After that, I always requested an armored truck when I visited. Most of Jersey is great.

[@MrLoretano77]

@@jdollar5852 been there many times and all over Jersey. My family is from there. Camden never fails to dissappoint

[@Entername-md1ev]

Seeing Briggs’ face was the biggest surprise this morning 😂😂 so used to his voice just being a voice without a face

[@O_G]

In Albuquerque the road rage is out of control. Everyone is seemingly mentally ill on the roadways, they honk at you for anything and are always confrontational.

[@MultiRocknroll123]

My folks live in OFallon, MO about 35-40 minutes west of St Louis. They still got thugs from Ferguson making their way out there to break into cars

[@alexstokowsky6360]

The policing is way better where your folks live and they are catching these thieves and doing the work that St. Louis cops won't do. The thieves are taking the cars to chop shops on Broadway in St. Louis. I remember decades ago they would take stolen cars to Arkansas for parts, but now it seems to be done locally. A woman visiting the St. Charles casino got caught with 12 license plates in her trunk of all cars which have been stolen. They have been putting up video cams on highway 70 in St. Charles County to catch thieves as well.

[@dianecaldwell5237]

Thanks for another interesting video. I thought St. Louis might be at the top of the list. I’ve been all over the US, but St. Louis was the only city I’ve been to where I saw someone loading a gun as our vehicle passed by him. The guy was watching us closely. We got out of there pronto without incident and I haven’t been back there since then. This is one of my favorite channels here and it was great seeing the face behind the camera! Keep up the great work.

[@versatilechannel9387]

Born and raised in St. Louis. I come from the Mike Brown generation, my high school was about 10-15 minutes from Canfield the neighborhood where it happened. We were walking out of school back then I still have friends that live in Canfield today. That was one situation that sent the entire city and Metro area or what we like to call “County” North county being the most dangerous metro area & where the Situation took place into and downward spiral. The city has been dangerous since way before my lifetime but I watched it get worse in the last 15-20 years. Back in the days certain neighborhoods had gangs & street guys doing that type of activity but they kept the kids and women out. Many guys from that generation are dead or in jail so now it’s the kids that are running wild. Teenagers rolling around with heavy artillery ready to fire at enemies on sight. Gang wars all over the city.

[@marksnyder8022]

They closed a historic bridge across the Mississippi River and made it a pedestrian bridge. East St. Louis came to play and decided to stay.

[@billyjwolf2871]

St.Louis is a pretty bad city for some neighborhoods but most are usually calm and non violent it’s mostly like when there is a peaceful population and then a group of people with guns come in and add a little spice to the mix

[@user-nc7kk3sw8g]

@@marksnyder8022East St.Louis people tend to stay on their side of the river

[@robesperti5116]

Cool shirt Briggs!!

[@mjr2451]

Great concept

[@sassykaren7587]

I used to live in Baltimore City and I still check on the news up there. So Baltimore City should definitely be in the top 5!!!

[@MrLoretano77]

I live here and no doubt it deserves its place

[@ggsimmonds1]

I grew up splitting time between Curtis Bay, Brooklyn, and Cherry Hill. Every so often I hear news and think ah some things never change

[@dreamingwolf8382]

1) I feel like a ton of crime, even violent crime, in most places goes completely unreported- particularly in migrant communities. and 2) Not all crime has to be violent to be dangerous. If you took all crime into the perspective this list would probably change drastically.

[@NoirMorter]

Unreported crime is happening in non-migrant communities. i've talked to a lot of New Yorkers that don't report crimes any longer because its a waste of time amongst other reasons.

[@tb5124]

Okay but he clearly said we’re talking about violent crime. Of course it’d change if we added every single crime.

[@SA-hz1rs]

@@NoirMorter Florida lied to the fbi about its crime reporting

[@TheCharleseye]

@@NoirMorter Honestly, the only reason to report a crime in my city (in Northern California) is so that you have a record of it, for insurance purposes. Even violent criminals are getting processed out the same day they're arrested. They don't bother going to their court dates, so they get a bench warrant. All that means is the next time they get stopped, they get arrested, processed, and released...again. It's insane.

[@RondaMurphyRSM]

@@NoirMorter Waste of time in Florida too.

[@canucklehead11]

I live in a city of just over 500k in Canada and this video made me curious to compare. There's a violent crime rate of 106.4/100k where I live. I've been told by some that I'm not really "free" because I can't walk around armed but I'm ok with that.

[@daviddodson7271]

I was born and raised in Mississippi. After I turned 11 years old I realized that I had to get the heck out of there. Joined the Army and had a blast. Moved to Milwaukee in 1989 and in 2013 and I could see the writing on the wall. Got the hell out of there. I moved to Ripon, WI. It is where the Republican Party was founded. We have a population of and about 7.5K Hardly no crime here at all. A very nice place to raise a family. (Thanks for your service.) I am a retired Army member. I enjoy both your channels.

[@nawwk79]

Vermont is the most HARDCORE VICIOUSLY safest in the states.

[@sitdowndogbreath]

Original constitutional carry that's why or and a ton of Caucasian folks too.

[@r.pres.4121]

Vermont is almost all rural with only one sizable city, Burlington which has a population of only 45,000.

[@jamesday1723]

Totally unrelated to the video. I was hoping you could do a best small towns in the State of Jefferson video. Godspeed.

[@riblets1968]

Good point about Chicago's size. With a population roughly 12 times that of Saint Louis', it can still account for a heck of a lot more crime in absolute terms, which would make the rates unintuitive.

[@davidschopp9134]

My 3 guesses in top 5 are Memphis, Baltimore and Chicago but not sure the actually criteria like if population is factored in or land area or stuff like that. Also wouldn't be surprised if St Louis and Little Rock are up there

[@christianoliver3572]

I am amazed that NOLA isn't in the top 10. It must have been 11. I also wonder about Houston but it's so spread out that it's possible to avoid the high crime neighborhood.

[@billgoedecke2265]

Nice video! Thanks,

[@jshotwell454]

Love Chicago and I thoroughly enjoyed this video

[@captainben86]

My guess for the top 3 = New Orleans, St. Louis, Detroit.

[@jontrimble6874]

I just checked on Gary, IN, and it has a violent crime rate of 4540 per 100,000.

[@nlpnt]

Gary is Chicago's gun shop.

[@ayntchytius]

Oakland, CA has 5623 per 100,000 Briggs stats are off.

[@terejosh13]

​@@ayntchytiusis it 4000 or 5623 you keep changing your "stats" 😅

[@jontrimble6874]

Briggs even brought up Oakland, and it doesn't even make the top 10. Oakland has a violent crime rate of 1257 per 100,000. Quit making shit up.

[@thecocktailian2091]

@@ayntchytius Yeah, that is simply false. You must hate Oakland an awful lot to be making up these crazy stats.

[@bensehon8253]

How do you avg in the different neighborhoods of the city's? most cities have isolated area's that are crazy high enough to bring down the rest of the city

[@courtcox7075]

Yooooo this is the first time I’ve ever seen what you looked like hahahaha my guesses would be totally off cause I never thought nm would be on this list haha oh wow

[@deecarlson5272]

Probably more helpful to evaluate by neighborhood/area. Metro or larger city statistics are an average of good and bad areas. Makes the bad areas sound better and good areas sound worse than they are.

[@jamesrobert4106]

That would make sense. No confusion. Just statistics delivered in black and white.

[@wrobinson1702]

I'm going for a "Lower Mississippi Valley" theme in my list of most dangerous cities: Memphis, TN, Jackson, MS, and New Orleans, LA. I've lived in all three.

[@chrisnea2721]

I agree with Jackson, MS!

[@commoncentz3148]

Jackson Mississippi not as bad as Memphis and New Orleans. They just have bad leadership from the Mayor and City Council. Only bad parts of Jackson is West Jackson and some parts of South Jackson. North of Downtown is good. But City Hall is failing Jackson.

[@r.pres.4121]

You forgot Baton Rouge Louisiana another violent city.

[@TheMacPherson]

Only one I found surprising was Rockford, did my Pastoral internship in Belvedere just next door. It was completely chill there

[@bonesandbells]

Most people are concerned more specifically with attacks on strangers when moving to or visiting a city. Robbery is probably the closest to measuring attacks on strangers with Baltimore well in front followed by Cleveland, Oakland, St. Louis, and Memphis. San Francisco was 20th in 2020, but robberies have increased and the violent robberies and assaults of elderly Asian residents were seen across the country.

[@salesi712]

My thinking is Gary, IN; Stockton, CA; East St. Louis, MO. Let's see how I did!

[@charleshensley9503]

none really surprised me. LA in particular, like you said there are plenty of safe places there and the major crimes are in specific areas, same with Milwaukee, lived there for 7 years. Most of the crime was concentrated in one area.