Engine is cherry-picking stats that don't tell the whole story as usual. Chicago is a major city with a land area of 234 square miles, with every type of person under the sun, rich, poor and all in between. Jackson has a land area of 113 square miles full of mostly poor people. The cities are...
No different crime-wise than any other southern city. Stay out of the bad areas and you avoid 80% of the crime.
There's actually a lot of things to be positive about, but you'll never read them. Cspire, L3, Continental (obviously), all the stuff going on from Belhaven/Fondren over to...