Listened to a segment on NPR the other day about violence and safety in the US from a regional perspective. Can you guess the safest regions? The most violent regions?

Safest is the NYC Metro area and New England
Followed by the Great Lakes Region

Most violent and dangerous regions?
The Deep South
Appalachia Region

The GOP gaslighting that NYC is dangerous is utter nonsense.
@StrugglingGuitarist it never ceases to stop astonishing me that we have no pushback against this kind of vapid agitprop.
@shoq well the study in and of itself is pushback. The unfortunate thing is mainstream news media won't do a story like the NPR story. And Faux News only accentuates the false narrative.