1) The FBI web site recommends against using its data for ranking because these rankings lead to simplistic and/or incomplete analyses that often create misleading perceptions adversely affecting cities and counties, along with their residents
4) From your own Wiki link: "Often, one obtains very different results depending on whether crime rates are measured for the city jurisdiction or the metropolitan area."
5) The BJS reports that 45% of violent crimes and 36% of property crimes go unreported to police. And I don't know that we can assume the rates of not reporting crimes are consistent across metros.
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Your link uses FBI Uniform Crime Rates.
Some facts about FBI UCR:
1) The FBI web site recommends against using its data for ranking because these rankings lead to simplistic and/or incomplete analyses that often create misleading perceptions adversely affecting cities and counties, along with their residents
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
2) they are submitted voluntarily by police departments
3) many police departments don't even participate: "This year about 7,000 police agencies, covering about 35% of the U.S. population, were missing."
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/10/08/the-problem-wi...
4) From your own Wiki link: "Often, one obtains very different results depending on whether crime rates are measured for the city jurisdiction or the metropolitan area."
5) The BJS reports that 45% of violent crimes and 36% of property crimes go unreported to police. And I don't know that we can assume the rates of not reporting crimes are consistent across metros.
https://www.waldenu.edu/online-masters-programs/ms-in-crimin...