Here is the city of Springfield's officially tracked data. Click on "Violent Crimes" and download the heat map.

https://www.springfieldmo.gov/3257/Tracked-Data

Safety is relative to the individual and many people have lived here all their lives and are mostly white. Racism is a very real thing here. As a guess you'll probably be fine, especially on campus and in most places during the day. If you are low income and will need to live on the north side of town your results may vary.

I'm in the field of patient care and my client lives close to Kearney so im there no less than 40 hours a week. Kearney is legitimately scary on occasion, particularly at night.