Apparently, you have some catching up to do with Michigan's Saginaw and Flint: This is not unusual for a place that’s routinely called one of the most dangerous small cities in America. This year, there have been 27 homicides in Wilmington, tying its record 27 murders in 2010, and 135 people have been shot. Twenty-two of them died. With a population of just over 71,000, Wilmington had a violent-crime rate of 1,625 per 100,000 people last year, according to the FBI’s 2013 Uniform Crime Report -that crime rate measures murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. The national average was 368 per 100,000 people. Wilmington ranks third for violence among 450 cities of comparable size, behind the Michigan towns of Saginaw and Flint, according to a Wilmington News Journal report. For a city mired in violence, the most stunning fact of all may be that Wilmington just got its first homicide unit. If I lived in Saginaw or Flint, I would move. What's keeping you in Wilmington? Do you like it there? You must, because you are a smart and capable person and could move anywhere if you'd like.