Manchester Police Chief Mark Yother.
The security company Safe Streets USA, which specializes in home and business security has released their list of the Top 17 Tennessee cities considered the most dangerous. The company says they used the most recent FBI Uniform Crime Report, combining both violent and property crimes when making the rankings.
1. Crossville: Crime rate of 117 per 1,000 residents. You have a one in nine chance of being a crime victim.
2. Athens: Crime rate of 99 per 1,000 residents. You have a one in ten chance of being a crime victim.
3. Memphis: Crime rate of 81 per 1,000 residents. You have a one in twelve chance of being a crime victim.
4. Dyersburg: Crime rate of 77 per 1,000 residents. You have a one in thirteen chance of being a crime victim.
5. Knoxville: Crime rate of 77 per 1,000 residents. You have a one in thirteen chance of being a crime victim.
6. Greenville: Crime rate of 74 per 1,000 residents. You have a one in fourteen chance of being a crime victim.
7. Manchester: Crime rate of 67 per 1,000 residents. You have a one in fifteen chance of being a crime victim.
Manchester Police Chief Mark Yother says his department is very aggressive when it comes to solving crimes and bringing people to justice. Yother says the MPD has a very high solvability rate on reported crime which makes Manchester a safer place to live. He says numbers can be skewed because of how much a department reports the crimes it has.
8. Kingsport: Crime rate of 67 per 1,000 residents. You have a one in fifteen chance of being a crime victim.
9. Jackson: Crime rate of 64 per 1,000 residents. You have a one in sixteen chance of being a crime victim.
10. Cleveland: Crime rate of 62 per 1,000 residents. You have a one in sixteen chance of being a crime victim.
11. Springfield: Crime rate of 57 per 1,000 residents. You have a one in seventeen chance of being a crime victim.
12. East Ridge: Crime rate of 56 per 1,000 residents. You have a one in eighteen chance of being a crime victim.
13. McMinnville: Crime rate of 55 per 1,000 residents. You have a one in eighteen chance of being a crime victim.
14. Nashville: Crime rate of 54 per 1,000 residents. You have a one in eighteen chance of being a crime victim.
15. Brownsville: Crime rate of 52 per 1,000 residents. You have a one in nineteen chance of being a crime victim.
16. Lebanon: Crime rate of 49 per 1,000 residents. You have a one in twenty chance of being a crime victim.
17. Columbia: Crime rate of 48 per 1,000 residents. You have a one in twenty one chance of being a crime victim.
(Portions of this story from WZTV)
