are you one of those people that Prides themselves on their knowledge about which
cities have the highest murder rate I know I am are you that friend that everyone goes to
when they want to know what city they're most likely to have their off button pushed if you
said yes you might want to watch today's video because things are changing today we're looking
at the cities that have had their murder rate drop in recent years I know that sounds kind
of strange especially if you watch cable news crime rates are supposed to be going up we're
supposed to be just dying in the streets yeah it's just not the case in a lot of big cities
the fact is most major cities have seen their murder rate cut down from 20 to 60 percent
don't get me wrong there's still plenty of places like Detroit and Chicago that have
a murder rate that's either staying where it is or actually going up but more cities than
not are actually seeing their murder rate go down in this video we're listing the 10 cities
that saw the highest percentage drop from 2021 to 2022. got it get it good let's take a look
number 10 Richmond Virginia Richmond Virginia is one of those cities we just don't talk that
much about on this channel don't know why it never seems to come up my niece lived there for a while
in a really nice neighborhood but apparently they have some really bad neighborhoods in
Richmond they say really bad don't compare them to Detroit south side Chicago those are horrible
or Gary Indiana for that matter but bad for Richmond Virginia everyone always talks about the
Alexandria Fairfax and Arlington area Virginia which is up there by Washington DC Richmond
is south of Washington DC a little bit Inland from the Chesapeake Bay the city itself has 226
000 residents with the entire metro area having about 1.2 million I can't believe I feel the need
to explain this to you again because I get all kinds of emails why do you keep saying the metro
area or what does metro area mean metro area is the city and the surrounding suburbs example Los
Angeles there's Los Angeles city but one of the suburbs is Santa Monica Hollywood
is in the Los Angeles metro area and it's a suburb got it for a few years the crime
rate overall had been raising in Richmond the last few years it's gone down 90 lives
were lost to homicide in Richmond in 2021. according to the city's major crime unit
that's the most homicides they've had since 2004. well it got better in 2022 they only
lost 57 people to homicide that means their murder rate is down 36.67 percent
number nine Shreveport Louisiana Shreveport like most cities in Louisiana is a complete
[ __ ] show they've got high crime they've got high poverty the only time people ever show up
to downtown Shreveport is when they have to appear at a hearing or get that little ankle
bracelet on so you don't have to go back to jail Shreveport is on the northwest side of
Louisiana not too far from the Texas border the city of Shreveport has a population of about 187
000 residents with the metro area having just under 400 000. in 2021 69 people were lost
to homicide that dropped in 2022-43 giving them a drop of 37.68 percent
number eight Syracuse New York now I know for a fact Syracuse has been doing a lot of things
to change what's going on in their City I mean they don't want to turn into Buffalo
New York right nobody wants to turn into Buffalo New York Syracuse is the capital
of New York State and it sits just south of Lake Ontario and they have a population of about 148
000 residents with the metro area having a little over 660 000 and stop typing the
capital of New York is actually Albany all right who is leaving the comment come on fess up put
it down the comment section below actually I don't mind Syracuse even though the few
times I've been there they're in the middle of a serious snowstorm 32 people lost their life
to homicide in Syracuse in 2021 and that dropped down to 19 in 2022 that is a drop of 37.43 percent
number seven Flint Michigan yes Flint Michigan is so much more than a Water
Crisis they've got high crime serious poverty freezing weather and a lot of
people that have trash bags and duct tape as a substitute to a passenger window Flint Michigan
sits north of Detroit and east of Grand Rapids Flint has a population of about 81
000 residents with the entire metro area having 404 000 residents in 2021 Flint Michigan lost
67 residents to homicide in 2022 that number dropped down to 39. that's a drop of 43.75 percent
number six Charleston South Carolina surprise surprise Charleston made a list that's I mean it's
a negative list but it's also a positive list they didn't have that many murders Charleston is in
what they call the low country of South Carolina it sits about the middle of the state on the coast
so it's on the Eastern side of the state but it's right there in the middle between Savannah Georgia
and Myrtle Beach South Carolina Charleston has of about 100 in residents with about 799
000 in the metro area and if you want to know what they call themselves their charlestonians
Charleston lost 16 people to homicide in 2021. in 2022 they only lost nine that's a drop of 43.75
percent now that's pretty low and I know we're gonna have some comments about that number's
not accurate because there's a bunch of missing people every city has missing people and until a
body shows up with some holes in it it's just a missing person or some other type of damage
number five Mesa Arizona Mesa Arizona is a suburb of Phoenix and it sits just to the east of
Downtown Phoenix the city of Mesa has a population of about 500 000 residents with the Phoenix Metro
Area having about 4.8 million Mesa had a good drop but there is one other city in the Phoenix Metro
area that had a better drop and that's Chandler they just really didn't have enough murders
to make this list I'll tell you anyway Glendale Arizona in 2021 had one murder in 2022 they didn't
have any just not like a big enough sample size so I excluded them from this list but Mesa Arizona in
2021 had 34 homicides in 2022 that dropped down to 19. that's a 44.12 drop so that's not bad at all
number four New Haven Connecticut New Haven Connecticut's slogan should be
we're not as bad as Hartford and that's the truth hartford's actually going the
other direction when it comes to this stat New Haven has a population of about 134
000 residents with the entire metro area having about 862 000. I almost said 862 million that
would have confused some people New Haven sits on the Long Island Sound right across from the
rural part of Long Island New York that has always cracked me up you know Long Island in New York in
general just it's known for being overpopulated and just crowded then on the same island not too
far away you got some nice rural areas New Haven is also home to Yale University I actually had a
lieutenant when I first got in the army that was from Yale and I remember when he was introducing
himself to another Lieutenant the lieutenant asked him he's all where'd you go to school
and he's all Yale and he goes did you get kicked out why are you in the Army you normally don't
get a lot of Ivy League dudes in the Army in 2021 26 New Haven residents were victims of
homicide in 2022 that number dropped down to 14 which means their change was a 46.15 percent drop
number three Fort Wayne Indiana Fort Wayne's about the only city I would move to in Indiana
even though I do love the name of one of their other cities Terre Haute I don't know why I love
that name Indiana's always cracked me up it's like they have no originality with their names
Terre Haute and Indianapolis are about the only ones they've got a Lafayette just like Louisiana
they've got a Brazil they've got a Portland they've got a Decatur they've got a Bluffton
just like South Carolina they have a Richmond just like Virginia they have a Columbus which
isn't too far from Nashville they have a Jasper just like Wyoming but I'm sure Jasper Indiana
was there first they have a Madison just like Wisconsin and of course they got Santa Claus
I think they're the only ones with the Santa Claus but Fort Wayne is in the northeast corner
of Indiana it has a population of about 265 000 with their entire metro area having about 423
000. now they have a lot of rural like new communities which are right outside of the
metro area which if you counted those it might bring them up close to 600 000. side note they
also have a New Haven just like Connecticut in 2021 Fort Wayne saw 40 homicides in 2022
that dropped down to 20 homicides giving them a drop of 50 percent Bravo Fort Wayne
number two Wilmington Delaware yes put your teeth back in your mouth I said Wilmington
Delaware so you're about to be confused and I'm gonna have to explain this to you so here we go
this whole video is based on the city itself not the metro area Wilmington has a huge metro
area but the city itself is really not that big they only have 70 000 residents the metro area
has over 6 million the amount of murders in the entire metro area is about 300 the actual city
of Wilmington is not nearly as bad they had 40 homicides in 2021. that is not bad for a major
city that dropped down to 17 in 2022 giving them a 50.57 percent drop Bravo Wilmington
kind of proud of them like a parent watching my child graduate from rehab for the fifth time
all right before we get to number one don't forget we have another Channel called on this
day there is a link down below we'd love it if you went over there and watched some videos it's
all about things that happen on whatever date it is in history all right on to number one
and number one Providence Rhode Island here's another city we never talk about Providence for
some reason they never show up on these lists this is the first city that I really had where
like teenagers from Providence were commenting and sending me emails about how hard they are
they're trying to get their street cred in a comment section on a YouTube video talking
about how dangerous Providence is Providence has some crime Zev Camden New Jersey crime no Kansas
City Crime no East St Louis absolutely not they're considered average and they're getting better if
you don't know where Providence is it's a little Southwest of Boston at the end of the Providence
River Providence Rhode Island has a population of about 190 000 residents with the entire metro area
having 1.6 million that's more than most people expect the entire state to have in 2021 Providence
had 23 murders three of those come in in the last few days of that year in 2022 they only had nine
that's a drop of 60.87 seven percent not bad all right that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed
it hope you got some information out of it now go out have a great day and be nice to each other