Wait, you're comparing an American city to Taipei, and saying it has a crime problem? Why not compare it to another American city? You'll quickly discover that

Wait, you're comparing an American city to Taipei, and saying it has a crime problem? Why not compare it to another American city? You'll quickly discover that these 'worst' cities are middle of the road when it comes to most forms of crime, the real horrible places in the US are not in the liberal coastal states. The vast majority of them are in the tough-on-crime god-fearing ones. (I also always found it a little weird how many of the stores citing crime for closing are ones that just happened to have unionized, but maybe that's just a coincidence...)