What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the world according to Briggs
did you know the bureau of justice statistics in partnership with the
federal bureau of investigation release crime stats
every year they do they gather up all the information about
violent crimes and they organize it into a fancy spreadsheet for idiots like
myself to comb over and make ridiculous videos about
today we're taking a look at the most dangerous cities in the united states
every year i do this list after they release their findings in those four
years some have come and some have gone on the
worst ten there are about four of them that always seem to make the list
and there's a reason for that these cities suck and are not safe for human
beings they're not even safe for my 40 year old
sea monkeys i actually asked a worker at sea world
in san diego if they had sea monkeys when i was like eight
the dude laughed so hard he had to sit down my mom started laughing i finally
kicked the broom out of the dude's hand walked on dick a couple things about
this list we are going to look at the violent crime rate and how much higher
it is than the national average which in the united states it's 382.9
violent crimes for every 100 000 residents now before you leave a comment
about chicago being the worst stop typing
it's not they may have the most violent crimes but they also have three times as
many people than most of the cities on this
list so saying that they're the most dangerous wouldn't be correct now would
it if you don't understand that i encourage you to take a statistics class
or take a look at khan academy they'll explain it to you anyway
dangerous cities are bad and i'm going to list the most dangerous ones in the
united states for 2020 for you right now number 10
san antonio texas now i didn't see this one coming in the times that i visited
san antonio it seemed relatively safe and a nice place to be
it was hot sure but it didn't seem extremely dangerous compared to other
places i've visited san antonio 75 miles southwest of its
neighboring city austin which happens to be the state's
capital it's about 190 miles west of houston
this city has a little over 1.5 million residents with about 2.5 living in the
metro area san antonio has a great downtown and the
riverwalk is one of my favorite things to visit in texas
it's really nice great food great people just a very relaxing place to visit
my advice is stick to the river walk to be safe because if you wander in the
wrong place you might get stumped or worse the
violent crime rate in san antonio is 65 percent higher than the national
average you have a one in 160 chance of being a victim of a
violent crime in san antonio
number nine atlanta georgia atlanta is situated among the foothills of the
appalachian mountains and has one of the highest elevations of any major city
east of the mississippi river at 1050 feet above sea level i've always
known atlanta has some rough spots i never thought that they were one of
the most violent while being assaulted has ever thought hey what happened all
that southern hospitality atlanta is very spread out and even more
so when you look at all the suburbs the city itself only has
a little over 500 000 residents but the entire metro area has
over 6 million there are good people in some incredibly nice areas in and around
atlanta they just have some truly ugly parts that bring this whole city
down the violent crime rate in atlanta is 102 percent higher than
the national average the likelihood that you will become a victim of a violent
crime in atlanta is 1 in 131 that's not a good number
number 8 indianapolis indiana how can this place be bad
it has a world-famous racetrack it's in middle america
and peyton manning made a career here manning's so wholesome and nice
how could this place be bad it is indy has so much potential to be a better
version of what it is every year i see this place sliding
closer and closer to that detroit st louis nightmare if you don't know
indianapolis is in the east north central region
of the midwest in central indiana it encompasses a total area
of 368.2 square miles of suckage actually
and it's dangerous the violent crime here is 234 percent higher than the
national average total crime is pretty high too
it's 109 higher than the national average but 234 percent higher
your chance of becoming a victim of a violent crime in indianapolis is
1 in 79
number 7 oakland california what can you say about a city that lost the raiders
twice not a lot of good things while i was
researching this video i came up with the new slogan for the city's website
half the price of san francisco double the danger oaktown is the largest city
in the east bay of the san francisco bay area it's where
tech startups go when they didn't get enough money for their second round of
funding side note if there's any tech startups
out there that want to sponsor my videos i'm listening the email's down below now
oakland isn't the safest place and you can tell
by this number 235 yeah the violent crime rate in oakland
is 235 percent higher than the national average don't
live in oakland
number six little rock arkansas in 1994 hbo had a documentary called gang wars
banging in little rock and i have to admit
when i watched it i thought it was a mockumentary i thought this was all a
big joke turns out these country folks were
serious about being or at least wanting to be gang members
so that right there tells you little rock has sucked for some time now in
case you don't know little rock is located on the south bank of the
arkansas river in central arkansas the city has almost
200 000 residents with the metro area having
about 750 000 now they excel in very few things
violent crime is one of them they are 280 percent
higher than the national average if you spend any time in little rock arkansas
your chances of being the victim of a violent crime are one in
70. the person that assaults you may not have any teeth but
you're getting assaulted
number 5 st louis missouri st louis missouri is on the western bank of the
mississippi river which also forms the state line between
illinois and missouri and it's just south of where the
missouri river merges with the mississippi river
no wonder they call it the gateway to the west back in the days before trains
planes and automobiles a good river was a great way to travel
these days it's less of a gateway to the west more of a gateway to the afterlife
st louis is a dangerous place some areas are really really bad st louis though
isn't completely bad they have some really nice neighborhoods they just have
more than their fair share of bad neighborhoods the violent crime rate
in saint louis is 373 percent higher than the national
average there's a 1 in 56 chance that you will
experience a violent crime while staying in st louis
number 4 flint michigan flint michigan is a cautionary tale for the rest of the
world maybe even the galaxy flint wasn't the
greatest place before 2014 after 2014 it became a disaster the
flint water crisis started in 2014 after the drinking water
source for the city was changed flint switched from the treated detroit
water and sewage department's water which was sourced at lake huron through
the detroit river to the flint river officials failed to apply corrosive
inhibitors to the water as a result the lead from aging pipes
leached into the water supply leading to extremely elevated levels of heavy
metals exposing over 100 000 residents to poisonous water
essentially these days they don't have jobs or good
water they do have a lot of bad water poverty and
plenty of violence the violent crime rate in flint
is 378 percent higher than the national average
in flint you have 1 in 56 chance of being the victim of a violent crime
number three baltimore maryland baltimore is a city that makes this list
every single year and it has been for many years long before i was making
these videos they had all the right stats and all the
right places to make this type of list hbo even did a cop show and used
baltimore as the setting it was called the wire i've talked about it before
if you haven't watched it you might want to it's really good i think they had
like five seasons anyway i'm not sure how much longer the
suckage in baltimore will be a thing i've noticed tech companies are making
bmore their new home they bring in money and with money comes
lower crime that's just a fact when people have jobs and the city has
money crimes quit happening not completely but the crime rate sure
does shrink these days it's alarmingly high the
violent crime rate in baltimore is 382 percent higher than
the national average in baltimore your chances of becoming a
victim of a violent crime are 1 in 54. number two
memphis tennessee memphis is starting to feel familiar when we talk about violent
crime a couple years back while researching
the place they had an odd amount of people using machetes to send
someone to the afterlife remember that movie beetlejuice where they had
death's waiting room and everyone in the waiting room was in the condition that
they were when they died that's like this
weird fear i have i can't imagine going to the afterlife in the condition that
may include a machete protruding from my dome
i imagine i don't know your parachute not opening or something like that would
have a pretty ridiculous look on your face in that waiting room too
memphis is a city along the mississippi river in the southwestern
section of tennessee it is bordered by arkansas
and mississippi that's like being dealt a really bad hand
i'm surprised they aren't even worse with those two neighbors
the overall crime in memphis is 224 percent higher than the national average
the violent crime is 411 percent higher than the national
average that's brutal the likelihood that you
will become a victim of a violent crime while in memphis is 1 in 51. that's
brutal not as brutal as that whole machete thing but still
and number one portland oregon just kidding we're having riots around the
federal building in the police union building this week but
yeah the rest of the city i was down there yesterday and i saw people in the
park eating lunch it was yeah not a big deal
people were sitting outside at starbucks even come on
it's don't go anywhere near the federal building or the police union and you'll
be okay but here's the real one number one
detroit michigan if you haven't heard detroit is in bad shape
i can't help you you might want to switch up your news source
the smoke signals and carrier pigeons ain't keeping you up to date like you
should be detroit has been on a steady slide for many many years
most of the city looks like it could be used to film a season of the walking
dead right now it looks just like a lot of
the filming locations just no zombies the downtown area has made a decent
turnaround it just hasn't spread out as much as they'd like yet
detroit is a very violent city they don't have a lot of jobs
they've got too much open space abandoned buildings it's not a good
place to be especially when you hear this their
total crime is 145 percent above the national average and their
violent crime is 428 percent higher than the national average
you have a 1 in 49 chance of falling victim to a violent crime
while in detroit michigan stay away from detroit michigan
unless you're just going to downtown then that's okay
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