The following table of United States cities by crime rate is based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) statistics from 2019 for the 100 most populous cities in America that have reported data to the FBI UCR system.
Often, one obtains very different results depending on whether crime rates are measured for the city jurisdiction or the metropolitan area.
2 The FBI does not publish arson data unless it receives it from either the agency or the state for all 12 months of the calendar year.
4 Because of changes in the state/ or local agency's reporting practices, figures are not comparable to previous years' data.
[5] In November 2007, the executive board of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) went further than the FBI itself, and approved a resolution opposing not only the use of the ratings to judge police departments, but also any development of city crime rankings from FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCRs) at all.
The resolution states the rankings "represent an irresponsible misuse of the data and do groundless harm to many communities" and "work against a key goal of our society, which is a better understanding of crime-related issues by both scientists and the public".