The FBI's most violent cities in each state

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In January, the Mexico Citizens Council for Public Security released its annual ranking of the world's cities with the highest homicide rates. Four U.S. cities made the top fifty list.

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Now, using data from the FBI for the first half of 2015, we have compiled a list of the most violent city in 43 states around the country.

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The data only considers cities that have a population of over 100,000. Therefore, states with cities that do not have populations over 100,000 were excluded from the FBI's data.

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According to the FBI, violent crime includes rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and murder. The average U.S. violent crime rate was roughly 36.6 offenses per 10,000 people in 2014.

For a look at 43 of the most violent cities in America, scroll through the gallery below:

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