In this WCCO article, Forbes Magazine states that Minneapolis is the safest city in America. This is pretty amazing, and much of what is stated here can be and has been felt over the past few years, but it is still a surprise.
4 of the other top, safe-cities are: 2) Milwaukee 3) Portland 4) Boston 5) Seattle.
Utilizing a number of different criteria, such as National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data, the Bureau of Labor Statistics data, low crime rate, workplace fatalities, traffic-related deaths, natural disaster risk, as well as factoring in the near double-digit reductions in crime, and is lowered now 3 years in a row.
Not a bad recovery for a city that in the mid 1990’s was nicknamed ‘Murderapolis.’
