Iconic city with vibrant music scene is now the most dangerous place to live in America

Memphis, Tennessee, once known for its blues, psyche and stone 'n' rotation music, has present turned into a haven for crime and drug abuse. 

A study by WalletHub has named the Southern metropolis the astir unsafe metropolis to unrecorded successful America among the 182 cities surveyed. 

The United States Department of Justice besides declared that this once-flourishing metro has the highest fig of homicides - 129 successful the archetypal fractional of 2024. 

Apart from this, 167 rapes, 1,028 robberies and 3,763 incidents of aggravated battle were reported successful the archetypal fractional of 2024 successful Memphis. 

This taste hotspot besides has a transgression complaint of 98 incidents per 1,000 residents, which is importantly higher compared to galore different cities successful the nation. 

Cases of convulsive transgression are besides higher successful Memphis arsenic compared to the nationalist mean - a staggering 24.37 per 1,000 people. 

In September, Justin Johnson was blameworthy of killing Memphis rapper Young Dolph successful 2021 and sentenced him to service beingness successful prison. 

Prosecutors had argued during the proceedings that Johnson and different man, Cornelius Smith, opened occurrence extracurricular of Makeda's Cookie Shop, wherever the rapper - whose existent sanction is Adolph Thornton Jr. - was buying treats for his mother.

Two months ago, a antheral and female babysitter were accused of beating an babe girl truthful severely she was bleeding from her rectum earlier her death.

Kiya Moore, 21, and her fellow Dejon Smith, 34, were charged with first-degree execution aft Moore's one-year-old niece Kali Moore was recovered dead.

Doctors said she had a skull and cervix fracture, monolithic bruising connected her backmost and rectal bleeding erstwhile they examined her body.

Further introspection discovered a encephalon bleed, bruised kidney, precocious enzymes successful her liver accordant with abdominal trauma and humor successful her lungs.

Speaking to the wide unit of the city, Chip Lupo, a writer and expert for WalletHub, noted that the lone mode the metropolis could trim its transgression enactment would beryllium by investing successful its 'underserved communities'.   

'Economic disparities, rising cause abuse, and societal disintegration thin to pb to higher transgression rates among the cities astatine the precise bottommost of the rankings,' the adept told Newsweek. 

'Improving information nationwide is simply a analyzable task. A bully commencement would beryllium for section policymakers to advocator for accrued concern successful underserved communities done occupation creation, upgrades successful infrastructure, and improving education, each of which tin assistance level disparities and enactment the community's at-risk population,' helium said. 

'In addition, reforming policing practices with an accent connected transparency and strengthening assemblage relations tin besides spell a agelong mode [if] implemented properly,' helium added.

The survey compared much than 180 cities crossed 41 cardinal indicators of information including home and assemblage information specified arsenic wide shootings, murders, assaults, thefts, cause poisoning, and postulation fatalities; earthy catastrophe risk, including earthquakes, hurricanes and wildfire risks; and fiscal security, including underemployment rates, poverty, security and fraud. 

Apart from Memphis, the bureau besides named Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Louisiana's Baton Rouge and New Orleans arsenic immoderate of the different unsafe cities successful America.