MINNEAPOLIS, MN
With more than 11,000 Americans killed by armed violence this year and with the country suffering climatic disasters worth $ 27,000 million in 2024, the Wallethub personal finance company published its report on the safest states of the United States in 2025, as well as comments of experts.
To determine the safest states, Wallethub compared 50 states with 52 key metrics. The data set covers from the per capita attacks to the total amount of per capita losses due to climatic disasters and the unemployment rate.
Minnesota security (1 = safer; 25 = average)
- General Post for Minnesota: 8º
- 16.º – Non -negligent murders and homicides
- 16º – Assaults per capita
- 5.º – Mortal labor injuries for every 100,000 full -time workers
- 2.º – Deaths per 100 million miles traveled by vehicles
- 29.º – In sexual criminals per capita
- 5º – Population percentage without insurance
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What actions can the current administration undertake to reduce crime and improve public safety?
State and local legislators are the ones who most influence the fight against crime and public safety. Policies such as education and poverty reduction contribute to long -term objectives. The short -term objectives are achieved through financing, training and appropriate responsible supervision of public security agencies. These agencies must be trained to provide services that meet the needs of the community, including extension and support programs in the field of mental health, drug rehabilitation and violence prevention.
Douglas Babcock, CEM, CPP, ACC – Coaching and counterparty consulting
Academic literature is quite clear: more police = less crime. In the United States, we are imprisoning at a rate several times higher than that of our similar countries. We probably have already exceeded the point where we obtain a significant benefit in terms of crime reduction due to frequent imprisonment. We are probably aggravating crime in some cases by expelling people from their communities for committing relatively minor crimes. But police action is the opposite. Our per capita police rates are lower than those of the European Union. One of our biggest cities, New York, has an unusually high per capita police rate. Ideally, we would reduce the penitentiary system, ideally shortening the convictions, making a much greater use of probation and other non -penitentiary strategies, and investing part of the savings in social spending, in addition to hiring more police.
Jake Wegmann – Associate Professor, University of Texas in Austin.
Is the shortage of police and health labor affecting security in the United States?
Yes. Birth rates in the United States have constantly decreased since 2007. The peak of that year was lower than 1990, which is still lower than that 100 years ago. Some experts predict that we head towards a crisis of labor shortages in the coming decades. This shortage will affect the public security and medical care of innumerable ways. This will aggravate the challenges that these two fields already face. Medical care and public safety are very demanding fields. Salaries are not usually very high and the lifestyle they require is not preferred by many young workers. Public opinion, although it has improved in the last two years, is not yet very positive towards police officers. The opportunities in technology, the collaborative economy and other changes in labor environments will press withholding and recruitment over the next few years. Public safety is not built quickly, although it can be lost very quickly. When police, hospitals, firefighters and rescue teams do not have the support of their communities, all who live and visit the community, from residents to business owners and tourists, suffer. The consequences extend to the tax base. “Schools, economy and beyond.”
Douglas Babcock, CEM, CPP, ACC – Coaching and counterparty consulting
Yes, with measurable effects. The reduction of personnel in the police departments can prolong the response times of 911 and reduce the investigation capacity. Similarly, the shortage of nurses and doctors specialists in traumatology reduces preparation for hospital emergencies and the ability to care for trauma, especially in cases of large number of victims. Bonuses for retention, modernized training itineraries, support for mental health to reduce exhaustion, lateral access programs and collaborations with community response equipment can be helpful. In the health field, telesalud triage models and emergency care directed by nurses are being used to compensate for scarcity.
Kheir Al-Kodmany, Ph.D. -Professor, University of Illinois, Urbano-Champaign
What advice would you give to consumers that they want to improve their “financial” safety?
“For consumers to improve their financial safety, they must practice the fundamental tasks associated with cyberprotection. – But with even more diligence. Passwords must be unique and long for each account, and must be stored in a password administrator. Unexpected electronic emails should never be opened with attachments – even if they seem to come from a known reference – but first should be verified through a band communication: That is, do not respond to the email sender, but send it a text message or call it to verify that you effectively sent email with the attached file. ”
Mark Ciampa, Ph.D. – Teacher; Director of the Postgraduate Program in Cybersecurity Analysis, University of Western Kentucky
Automate your savings to create an emergency fund of 3 to 6 months; Federal Reserve surveys show that many Americans cannot cover an emergency of $ 400 without borrowing. Prioritize health insurance, tenants/owners and disability. In regions prone to risks, add coverage against floods or earthquakes, since standard policies exclude them. Freeze your credit in the three credit agencies, activate multifactor authentication in your financial accounts and use a password administrator to reduce fraud exposure. Pay credit cards and avoid rapid loans, since, according to investigations, they aggravate financial instability. Keep backup copies of your important documents (in the cloud and offline), maintain an inventory of your value objects and know the evacuation procedures and insurance claims. Avoid depending on a single employer or sector. Diversification between industries and asset classes is a key protection against economic crises.
Kheir Al-Kodmany, Ph.D. -Professor, University of Illinois, Urbano-Champaign
