What is "the most violent city per capita in America"?

Click here to find out.  The article linked provides these explanations for why the city wins this unfortunate honor:

“Our 30-year crime history is appalling,” said [local] Prosecutor Michael D. Thomas.... “You can’t do more with less.”  Thomas identified reductions in police, more lenient state sentencing guidelines and a disproportionately low number of prosecutors in [this] County versus similar cities as key factors in [its] crime rate....

Law enforcement is key to protecting the public, Thomas said.  But even if the court system had the resources to fully prosecute all criminals, legislators still sometimes render impotent the system’s potential to enact justice.

“Our sentencing guidelines tie some of our judge’s hands behind their backs,” he said, removing the judge’s leeway in imposing a sentence and often resulting in shorter sentence benefiting the convict. Thomas said first-offense felons go to prison less than 10 percent of the time in [the state]. Based on the number of parolees Thomas’s office prosecutes, many convicts are released from prison early, Thomas said.

I will provide a hint (and perhaps stir up some controversy) by noting that the state in which this city resides does not have the death penalty.