What is going on everyone? It is time to take a look at the most violent small
towns in America we all know big cities are filled to the rim with crime but
statistically you have a better chance of being involved in an assault or worse
in a small town there are some amazing quiet small towns in this country then
you have some that need to be started over you know like mowed down burnt
whatever start them over this list is based on the FBI's 2018 crime data
report looking at towns with a population of less than 20,000 but more
than a thousand if you get into the 100's like population a good bar fight
could make it statistically look like the worst place in the country
the FBI defines a violent crime as basically whacking someone non-negligent
manslaughter robbery and aggravated assault there's another word that goes
in here but I don't want to be demonetised so we'll just call it the
unauthorized use of another person's body I'm not making light of anything
you just don't want to trigger the algorithm takes them a couple days to
manually review it and it sucks anyway this list is focused on towns
that really aren't in the middle of a metro area sort of out by themselves as
an example if you took the City of Industry it's just mixed in the middle
of the LA metro area and it's horrible and it's probably worse than most the
ones on this list but it's also got horrible neighborhood so it's like one
big mess these ones are their own individual messes so if you look at
towns with that criteria you got to start with
number ten Henderson North Carolina this small town has been around for a bit
Henderson as a community there's very deep in history it was actually settled
in 1785 be exact now it's not too far from the state capital and the place
sucks Henderson has a serious problem with violent crime and that's why it's
on this list at nearly 15 violent crimes per 1000 residents
it makes Henderson one of the worst places in North Carolina to live the
town had 192 violent crimes in 2018 that should be enough to tell you to stay
away from Henderson but if you still want to call a local real estate agent
you should know that they had a staggering 93 property crimes per
thousand residents in 2018 this community has some serious issues across
the board including an elderly woman that throws rocks at cars from her porch
a local told me about this it was great they said that she used to do it from
the woods but as she got older you know she you know didn't hike into the woods
by the highway anymore now she just Hux rocks from her porch and screams
profanity Henderson has about 15,000 residents and about 28% of them live in
poverty that is always a factor in a crime rate of any place
number nine Columbus New Mexico the small town of Columbus New Mexico shares
a border with Mexico and you don't want to live there I would suggest not even
driving close to there in recent years Columbus has been a hotbed of organized
crime where there's an estimated 15% of the 2,000 person population maybe
involved in illegal activity serious legal activity not counting like dudes
and daisy dukes we're talking real crime like drug smuggling drug smugglers have
made Columbus their home the town small police force is scandal-ridden and
constantly in disarray and disarray is being generous in March the mayor of
Columbus the town's police chief and a village trustee were among several city
officials indicted for trafficking firearms to Mexico like I said don't
move here the violent crime rate is about 18 for every 1,000 residents
number eight Dillingham Alaska in 1881 after the United States purchased Alaska
the United States Signal Corps built a weather station near where Dillingham is
today the Arctic packing company came in and built its first cannery Bristol Bay
right there in 1883 it's just across the river from the site of modern-day
Dillingham operations began the following year with a pack of 400 cases
of salmon that's it not many by 1903 there was a total of ten canneries
they'd built along the river including four within the current city limits and
produced as much as 1 million cases of canned salmon
most of these canneries were closed for a variety of reasons including coastal
erosion and there is really nothing else to talk about when it comes to
Dillingham other than it's a great place to stay if you have a bail bondsman
looking for you oh and one other thing they apparently don't mind assaulting
each other they have just over 2,000 residents in last year 38 of them were
assaulted in one way or another 19 violent crimes per every thousand
residents in Dillingham Alaska I I can't think of a reason to move there honestly
I mean you also got to worry about being trampled by a moose that's a real worry
in Alaska I kid you not
number seven Lumberton North Carolina the city of Lumberton was created by an
act of the North Carolina General Assembly in 1787 so it's been around a
bit actually Napoleon was 18 when the place was settled the town was only 20
years old when he started wearing his hat sideways what I hate about this
place and yes I've been there it looks like a really nice town homes are
well-maintained streets aren't dirty for the most part they have an incredibly
green building you know the place is nice-looking they just have crime issues
that nobody can fix in Lumberton thirty five point one percent of the population
is living below the poverty line and they have had serious drug problems for
years between April and June of 2017 three young women were murdered in the
same area nobody's been arrested they don't know what's happening the overall
crime rate in Lumberton is 51 percent higher than the national average there's
22 Violent Crimes for every thousand residents in Lumberton
number six doniphon Missouri doniphon is in the middle of frickin nowhere but
about two thousand people call it home and they don't really seem to mind I
guess they don't really seem like they're leaving they don't lose people
they don't gain people they're just all the same people it is in between st.
Louis and Memphis almost the same distance with st. Louis to the north and
Memphis to the south so if you decide you need to get to the nearest big city
your choices suck doniphon doesn't seem much better
it's suckage is just a smaller scale Google the place they got flooding
buildings being set on fire and six idiots that are like in their 50s
assaulted some dude that assaulted one of their friends or something like that
that's something high school kids do but they're in their 50s and decide to do
this the bad part of it they didn't know what they're doing and the guy didn't
make it through the assault that's just one of the many weird stories about this
place they have 26 Violent Crimes for every
thousand residents remember what I said about starting a town over
number five Osceola Arkansas just up the Mississippi River from Memphis Tennessee
you have Osceola Arkansas here's the thing with Arkansas if a city or town
isn't in the northwest corner of the state chances are you're risking your
life visiting any town or city that part of the state is great the rest of it is
always dangerous sure you can find the occasional gem but most the places are
dangerous like Osceola Osceola has more than enough violent crime to go around
recently they had a police officer indicted after shooting two people
during a traffic stop and in 2017 an officer that had been suspended four
times fired rehired by the Osceola Police Department accidentally shot a 16
year old she was chasing it's just not safe in this town they have 26.5 Violent
Crimes for every thousand residents and Osceola it's like they're trying to
catch up with Memphis or something like that
number four Espanola New Mexico it is believed that the town that began as
Espanola was named by rail workers in the 1800s at the time of the railroad
construction a small restaurant in the area was nicknamed la Espanola this was
because the large presence of Spanish women near you you see they didn't speak
the language really well I think they thought they were saying
something else anyway about ten thousand people called this northern New Mexico
town home and they probably spent a lot of time locking doors and researching
security systems I don't want to make it sound like this place is dangerous but
there were safer beaches on Normandie this town appears to have never left the
most dangerous towns in New Mexico lists since they started making lists they had
306 Violent Crimes in 2018 that gives them 30 violent crimes for
every thousand residents
number 3s told South Carolina the town of Estill is located in the southern
half of Hampton County Estill was formed in 1901 they needed a rail line between
Augusta Georgia and Savannah Georgia upon the construction of the rail line
the new town of a still was incorporated in 1905 now if you want to have some fun
well it's not really fun it's kind of gross Google I still crime people appear
to be getting shot every single weekend in this town and I think it's one dude I
really do he's police sketches all over the place I texted a friend who grew up
in Hilton Head South Carolina it's another world away but really it's an
hour away I asked him if he knew anything about this town and his
response was I try not to then he texts me back what the hell is
going on in Estill that you're making a list about I said violence he said oh
well they got that he said the town is like going back in time to the 1940s the
only thing that doesn't look like it was put there in the 1940s are the cars and
what people are wearing said everything else is just like it buildings that have
been standing too long and too empty it's just he said it's just a nasty
place anyway these people are big into hurting each other not all of them
obviously but they have a good amount of idiots here you know in the south you're
always gonna have a large majority of a town is they're good people they're good
family people they're good to each other but for some reason these towns always
have these idiots in there that just make the whole place look bad it sucks
anyway they have 34 violent crimes per every thousand residents in Estill
number two Anniston Alabama our old friend if you're looking for an all-star
suckage look no further than Anniston Alabama they appear on all these
negative lists about small towns not just mine everyone's I am working on a
list currently that's about towns that are losing people that may actually
disappear within the next couple three four decades Aniston is on it I promise
no matter what the subject is if you research worse town lists or something
like that Anacin will be on it somewhere in the top ten so why don't we approach
this a little bit different I mean they know they're bad they know things go bad
all the lists know they suck why don't we approach it today from a more
supportive manner so here we go they know what they're doing and they are
motivated it's like they're on a mission or something you go get a manís ttan you
see they're just in such bad shape there's no point of just talking about
the bad let's just all except Aniston sucks they're violent crime rate is
outstanding I mean come on 37 violent crimes for every 1000
residents I mean that's some work right there they maybe next year they'll get
40mm I hope so actually I don't hope so but still
and number one Kotzebue Alaska Kotzebue lies on a gravel spit at the end of the
Baldwin Peninsula in Kotzebue sound Kotzebue served as a trading and
gathering center for various communities in the region it's not a bay with like
three rivers flowing into it so it made it easier for the inland residents to
make it to town hence it becoming a trading center there's no valid reason
to live here other than a court order to ankle bracelet and judging from the
stats I would say there's a lot of those people so these are the things that you
can do if you visit Kotzebue Alaska and this is on like websites and travel
sites that they have there's a Cultural Arts Center okay that could be
interesting fishing I'm down they have a hot spring and a nature preserve both
great and then you can finish up your stay with a visit to the indigenous
people cemetery in the center of town this large cemetery contains many
decorative spirit houses that have been built over many of the graves here you
know nothing's more satisfying than after a long day of not working then
sitting on your porch having a drink chewing on some whale blubber and
watching tourists stomp all over the graves of your relatives hmm sounds like
a good time when these people aren't trying to turn a dime on the back of
their dearly departed apparently they commit violent acts against each other
and not all of this can be attributed to drinking Kotzebue Alaska is a damp
community this means you could bring in to
Kotzebue alcoholic beverages for consumption if it's improperly labeled
containers and it's within your monthly limit you have a monthly limit here okay
it is a felony offense to manufacture sell possess or barter alcoholic
beverages you can't trade a beer for like someone fixing your tire or
something I guess anyway this year they're projected to have 121 Violent
Crimes this city barely has 3,000 people that's about 40 for every thousand
people in the city I can't think of a reason to visit this city above the
Arctic Circle they have some wind farms okay I don't know stay away from
Kotzebue Alaska and that should be pretty easy because it's kind of hard to
get there all right so that is my top 10 most
violent towns in the United States for 2019 hope you guys enjoyed it hope you
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