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Depends how we define violence:Overall violence: Detroit, MichiganMurder/Non-negligent manslaughter: New Orleans, LouisianaRape: Minneapolis, MinnesotaRobbery: Cleveland, OhioMotor Vehicle Theft: Detroit, MichiganBurglary: Cleveland, OhioSource: United States Cities by Crime Rate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_rate

Every so often, I am wrong. And not a little wrong, but incredibly, amazingly wrong. And this one of those lamentable times. I used to think that voter ID laws made perfect sense. I mean who wouldn’t want to prevent voter fraud. Protect the integrity of elections and all of that. Then I learned a little more about it. Instances of vote fraud are incredibly rare. The Heritage Foundation listed 1,088 proven instances of voter fraud since 2000.https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/voterfraud_download/VoterFraudCases_5.pdfThe 1000 cases are across all state and federal elections. Out of billions of votes cast, we have 1000 cases. I think in this case a picture is worth a thousand words.The flip side is what does it hurt. Everyone has valid ID? Nope[I]t turns out that more than three million Americans actually don't own a government-issued picture ID. That's according to a recent study by New York University's Brennan Center for Justice.[…]The most common form of government-issued ID are driver's licenses and so the people who are most unlikely to drive, as it is, is elderly, the poor, people who live in big cities, like African-Americans, especially young people, too, especially if they attend college. They may not have need for a car at the moment.And then people who are in rural areas. The other challenge for them is they are not near the Department of Motor Vehicles offices, etc., etc. where you would get these IDs.Why Millions of Americans Have No Government IDSo, on one hand you have a non-existent problem and on the other hand you have the very real prospect of disenfranchising millions of Americans, especially poor and minorities. Moreover, any hurdle to voting must be examined carefully. The US has a long history of placing barriers to votingPoll taxesLiteracy testsLand ownershipMen onlyAnd the list continues. So, I am forced to concede that I was 100% wrong. Voter ID laws are evil, having been spawned from the very pits of perdition.Edited. Turns out I am wrong again. Kind of. There is a recent case of voter fraud, although likely not what the voter ID proponents expected.Derek Chauvin, the 44-year-old Minnesota police officer charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter for his role in the May 25 death of George Floyd, voted illegally in Florida in 2016 and 2018, according to a Florida attorney.Florida attorney, Dan Helm, who is a candidate for Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections, has requested that Orange County State Attorney Aramis Ayala prosecute Chauvin for violating the state's election laws, a third-degree felony, according to The Star Tribune.https://www.newsweek.com/derek-chauvin-accused-fraudulently-voting-florida-despite-living-minnesota-1509109

It doesn’t exist as a law, let alone as an idea. So the short answer is because driving is a privilege which comes with responsibilities. Being able to walk safely and freely is a right.It's not that ‘jaywalking’ is allowed in the UK, it's that ‘jaywalking’ as a concept doesn't even exist. Crossing a road in the UK, and most of the rest of the world, isn't even considered to be something to be made illegal!The real question should read: Why is the simple act of crossing a road restricted in the US?! Why is the motor vehicle king? Why does a pedestrian not have right of way?Actually, I can't think of any other country which treats its own citizens as such idiots so as to not trust them to manage a simple task such as crossing a road (or command a motor vehicle)! If you are unable to stop, look, look again, and decide if it is safe to cross, well, that's natural selection at work!The pedestrian has the priority in the pecking-order of transport, and so they should, they are the most vulnerable. A pedestrian has a perfect right to cross a road. A driver on the other hand has the responsibility to drive carefully and with awareness. Why would a state even think to legislate against such a thing?I would suggest that the eternal threat of a pedestrian stepping into the road at any moment would force drivers to be more vigilant and drive more carefully. My guess is that in the US the pecking-order is inverted. The vehicle which is ‘king’, meets a pedestrian who is ‘jaywalking’, and in a state run by insurance companies and lawyers the pedestrian is to blame as they broke the law! In the rest of the world it is the opposite. Even if the pedestrian attempts to cross the middle of the road, if an accident happens the driver will be investigated to see if they were driving within the speed limit, with appropriate care and awareness, if they were distracted, on their phone, lighting a cigarette, etc, etc. A speed limit is that, a limit, it isn't a speed ‘target’! If, as a driver, the conditions are say, at night, in rain, no street lighting, and you're tired, then well guess what? You should drive with much more care. It is your duty to be aware for the dog that may run into the road, or the cyclist, or the child that runs after a stray ball. YOUR responsibility!!! And if anything ever happens it is YOU who will have to live with it for the rest of your life but better to live with it knowing that you did everything you could to avoid such an incident than live with it knowing that if only you'd driven slower, or not have been reading an SMS!…I say this as a driver, cyclist and pedestrian who lives in London and who has walked, cycled and driven all over the world! I say this as someone who has been on the scene, and given first aid to a lady run over and crushed by a bus whilst on a road crossing. I say this as someone who believes that we should take responsibility for our actions and that the state should not legislate for every minutia of daily life yet investigate and prosecute in a just system when needs be.In the US it is illegal to cross the road except at a designated crossing. Is it illegal to be on your phone whilst driving?! In Arizona it's not illegal to be sending an SMS whilst driving! Does this sound right to you?http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/cellular-phone-use-and-texting-while-driving-laws.aspxhttp://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/pedestrian-crossing-50-state-summary.aspxAs and interesting follow-up, and based on quotes from the above link:“To combat the rise in pedestrian injuries and fatalities and create more walkable communities, state legislatures have been toughening laws regarding the circumstances when a motorist must stop or yield to a pedestrian crossing at an uncontrolled crosswalk. An uncontrolled crosswalk typically means that a traffic control device is either not in place or operation to dictate pedestrian movement.Nine states and the District of Columbia require motorists to stop when approaching a pedestrian in an uncontrolled crosswalk. Minnesota mandates that a motorist stop when a pedestrian is in any portion of the roadway. Six states and D.C. require a motorist to stop when a pedestrian is upon the same half of the roadway or within one lane of the lane that the motorist is traveling upon, and two states require a motorist to stop when a pedestrian is upon the same half of the roadway or approaching closely enough from the opposite side of the roadway to constitute a danger.”It seems to me that the concept of ‘Jaywalking’ is slowly being phased out but only time will tell.***Edited to ‘flesh it out’!***It has also been suggested that I have implied that the rest of the world have no concept of the idea. I’m not so sure thats a valid claim however the only nation that seems to regularly enforce it is Singapore. Many other countries may legislate that if you are within 50–100m of a designated crossing then you are obliged to use it. That said, it seems that not doing so is very rarely penalised and drivers are always held responsible regardless.Jaywalking - Wikipedia