US News ranks Maine as the number one safest state in the nation, followed by: Maine Vermont New Hampshire New Jersey Idaho Connecticut Virginia Rhode Island Wyoming Pennsylvania Source US News New Mexico is rated the worst, preceded by Alaska, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Nevada, South Carolina, Alabama, Missouri, and Arizona. The full list can be freely read through the link but to read the entire article, which goes into detail about each, it tries to get you to change your home page or some other nonsense that I am not about to do, so I don't have the details as to why they were rated as they were.
I can see that Maine is the safest state as far as violent crime rates, so I'll point out that we have a constitutional carry law, with no permit required to carry a weapon, open or concealed.
I'm sure it does. I'm fairly certain that Portland, our most liberal and largest city, isn't nearly as safe as the rest of the state, and I am pretty sure there are relatively safe places to live in New Mexico. I'm sure that Portland is much safer than Chicago, Baltimore, New York, or Los Angeles too, but there are probably safe places to live in Chicago.
I was just thinking of New Jersey where my sister lives. She lives in a small town called Sparta, not much crime there at all. She hated picking me up at Newark airport though if I had a late flight...she's just afraid driving at night around that area.
Yes, even now there are safe places to live in Chicago...mostly on the north side. My aunt who's in her 80's still lives in a house by herself there and never had a problem.
Available from the link, US News also has rankings for a lot of other variables, as well. In Fiscal Stability, for example, Maine is solidly in the middle, Utah and North Dakota being the highest, with Illinois and New Jersey at the bottom.
Alaska ???...really ?... the second worst state for safety ?... I'm not American of course but where is Utah on the Safe list?..You'd think with all those Mormons it'd be a safe place to live lol... My husbands grandmother lived in Maine most of her life.. he stayed with her when he was younger but he can't remember too much about it except that it was cold whenever he was there but beautiful , ( it was before he was even a teen)...
Moat of the safest states are very cold states. Therefore, less populated. Fewer people = fewer crimes.
Few crimes, but it's based on a percentage of the population so it wouldn't take as many crimes to affect the percentages. I think it has more to do with the fact that, when there are fewer people, people tend to know one another, which encourages people to behave themselves and increases the likelihood of getting caught if they don't. Plus the fact that we aren't out so much in the winter. You don't have so many gang members hanging out on street corners in a Maine February.