Most Dangerous Cities in the US

I'm surprised Washington DC and Columbus didn't make the top 10 list and Oakland was #4, who knew across the Bay from SF you've got a city more dangerous than Camden, NJ...

1 Detroit, MI
2 St. Louis, MO
3 Flint, MI
4 Oakland, CA
5 Camden, NJ
6 Birmingham, AL
7 North Charleston, SC
8 Memphis, TN
9 Richmond, CA
10 Cleveland, OH

annnd the top 10 safest cities:

1 Mission Viejo, CA
2 Clarkstown, NY
3 Brick Township, NJ
4 Amherst, NY
5 Sugar Land, TX
6 Colonie, NY
7 Thousand Oaks, CA
8 Newton, MA
9 Toms River Township, NJ
10 Lake Forest, CA

All of this info from the 14th annual "City Crime Rankings: Crime in Metropolitan America," released Sunday, which is published by CQ Press, a unit of Congressional Quarterly. It is based on the FBI's Sept. 24 crime statistics report.

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