Crime rates are high in a few city blocks while most places are very safe indeed. You don't live in South Central, do you?What a fool you are. Criminals travel unabated and traffic in drugs and firearms in and out of big cities because only the state can enforce inter city violations. You fool, you talk like only a municipality can keep drugs and guns out of their city.....only the state does that. Cities have no authority out of their justiction. . Poor support and funding by states is the typical reason why crime rates in red states are so high.