20 Cities With the Highest Crime Rates in the Country
| July 20, 2016
Memphis, Tennessee
Although it hasn’t always been a dangerous place to live, Memphis saw a 5% rise in violent crime in 2014, which catapulted it much higher on the list of most dangerous cities in America. In addition to violent crime in general going up, murders were also at an eight-year high in 2014 — an average of 21 out of every 100,000 residents is murdered every year.
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