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Cheyenne, Wyoming made the list too at #23. I am a little surprised that Denver, CO was not closer to #1.

Archive: https://archive.today/axwwA

From the post: "Denver has a mayor and a 13-member City Council, with 11 members representing geographic districts and two elected citywide. Denver is among the top 10 large U.S. cities with high crime rates, according to the Common Sense Institute, a free-market policy analysis group based in Colorado. The city ranked the third-highest in auto theft, the sixth-highest for property crimes, and the 10th-highest for rape."

Cheyenne, Wyoming made the list too at #23. I am a little surprised that Denver, CO was not closer to #1. Archive: https://archive.today/axwwA From the post: "Denver has a mayor and a 13-member City Council, with 11 members representing geographic districts and two elected citywide. Denver is among the top 10 large U.S. cities with high crime rates, according to the Common Sense Institute, a free-market policy analysis group based in Colorado. The city ranked the third-highest in auto theft, the sixth-highest for property crimes, and the 10th-highest for rape."

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Very interesting article.
Cheyenne is a surprise, but yet not a big one. It doesn't have the tax base to support much beyond basic government functions, if I remember correctly. I haven't been in years, but I have fond memories of my visit. The article isn't really forthcoming with much detail about the town.

EDIT: I dug into that was linked to in the OP article and found this:

But how do we measure the effectiveness of local leadership? One way is by determining a city’s operating efficiency. In other words, we can learn how well city officials manage and spend public funds by comparing the quality of services residents receive against the city’s total budget.

Using that approach, WalletHub compared the operating efficiency of 150 of the largest U.S. cities to reveal which among them are managed best. We constructed a “Quality of Services” score made up of 38 metrics grouped into six service categories, which we then measured against the city’s per-capita budget.

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Yeah, you are more or less correct. Most of Cheyenne is propped up by being the state capital and its supporting government bodies as well as the F.E. Warren airforce base.