"To put it in comparison, Philadelphia, Chicago, 500, 800 homicides in 2021 alone. Historically, high immigrant cities tend to have lower homicide rates. In fact, San Francisco has lower rates of murder, sexual assault, and aggravated assault than any city listed so far. Some of the cities that land high on this list are quite surprising; some others that we might assume would easily crack the top ten really arent that dangerous comparatively speaking. Its the home of the liberty bell, and the city where the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Source: city's official website, 2023. Miamis and New Yorks rates for violent crime in 2020 were 556 and 578, respectively. According to a report released Monday by nonprofit news outlet The Trace, Chicago ranks behind 17 other cities when it comes to its five-year, gun-related homicide rate. Although it has a very low murder rate, it lands on this list because of an elevated number of assaults. Citadel Says It Will Move Offices to Miami Because of Crime in Chicago Source: IBM, 2023. Only eight law enforcement agencies in Miami-Dade have their own homicide bureaus. Moreover, based on the calculations per 100,000 residents, the city had 61 murders reported in 2020. The murder rate in Detroit is 41.45 per 100,000 residents. That's when you saw the ghettos of Florida, and finally realized how rough it can get. Miami-Dade Murder Rate Dropped in 2021 by Nearly 15% In 2021, the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiners Office recorded 245 homicides. But because Chicago has 2.7 million residents, the citys gun violence problem is not nearly as severe as the violence in many other large American cities, The Trace reported. This is how Miami measures against New York and Chicago. Once a great manufacturing city, Cleveland was hit hard by deindustrialization. Nevertheless Indianapolis makes it onto the podium, mainly because of a very high rate of aggravated assault (839.13 per 100,000 residents). However, things have turned around appreciably, and times are not as hard here as they once seemed. Lethal disputes over controlling drug-dealing corners or territory seem rarer than in years past. Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago said in a statement. Chicago is a war zone, Alexa James, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Chicago told Reuters in May. While not a direct comparison, Miami Dade County reported 30 homicide offenses this year through May, down from 48 over the same period last year. St. Pete (as locals call it) is part of the greater Tampa area, noted as an excellent retirement destination due to its relatively low cost of living. As a father and a police officer, it was infuriating. When it comes to murder, Miami has a crime rate of 12.8. Its also the cultural center of Kansas. Been to both. This is about a 1% decrease from 2020. I have lived here for 10 years and I have moved many times and never come close to either of those neighborhoods. In 2021, there were an estimated 1,933 property crimes per 100,000 people, about a 1% decrease compared with 2020. I'm not being sarcastic, Florida can get rough. However, national crime data remains incomplete with about 37% of law enforcement agencies not reporting data last year.