Bad News In The Rust Belt

Yglesias mentions the 10 highest cities for murder rate, and the Rust Belt is amply represented:

 For example, the top ten large American cities in terms of murder rate are New Orleans, St Louis, Baltimore, Detroit, Newark, Oakland, Washington, Kansas City, Buffalo, and Cincinnati of which Washington is the most expensive by far (to say nothing of comparing it to Berlin!) and the schools are sub-par compared to other expensive major cities.

Not something we want to brag about.