Birmingham has replaced Mobile as the second ‘most dangerous city in the United States’ according to a study released last month by data site MoneyGeek.com.
This ranking is based on comparison of crime data for 263 cities with populations of over 100,000 in the United States pulled from the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) according to MoneyGeek. But Christopher Burks, visiting professor of political science at Samford University and founder of local urban policy consulting firm Urban Analysis, says MoneyGeek compared “apples to oranges” to come up with their rankings, making it invalid.
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Source: AL.com
