06 Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama, the most populated city in the state, ranks sixth in the top ten most dangerous cities in America. The crime rate is 1,518 per 100,000 people. Like other cities in the United States, the poverty rate is high in areas prone to acts of crime. Another major factor in crime is the region’s problem with the drug trade. The upside is that the rates of crime have been decreasing since their peak in the mid-1990s.
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