California Ranks 36 Among Safest States in America

Oct 23, 2023

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What states made 2023’s Safest States in America list?

With more than 34,000 Americans having died from gun violence this year and the country having experienced $24 billion climate disasters, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2023’s Safest States in America.

In order to determine the most secure states, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 52 key metrics. The data set ranges from assaults per capita to the total loss amount from climate disasters per capita to the unemployment rate.

David Weisburd

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Policing

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Dynamic patterns of criminal activity

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