The 20 Safest Cities In America

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[usurper]

El Paso and Chula Vista both have something in common. Both have state of the art border fences, lighting and border technology. They also have in addition to local police, a great host of board Border Patrol Agents who like nothing better than helping out the locals.

When the locals call for assistance in either of these towns a great number of “green-shirts” converge from all directions to help out. The BP helicopters are a great thing to have around as well.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I call BS on Virginia Beach too. Incidents with the Amish there are well-known.

[Tenacious 1]

They also have in addition to local police, a great host of board Border Patrol Agents who like nothing better than helping out the locals.

I spent a night in El Paso years ago during a cross country move. Just outside of town was a boarder patrol check stop. As we slowed to pull over at the checkpoint, I started to get real anxious. I had not checked the U-Haul trailer I was towing before leaving the hotel. I pictured an agent asking me to open the trailer and finding the lock was not there or something. "Officer, this is not my trailer and I have no idea what's in it."

I was impressed with El Paso.

[US Navy Vet]

SOME of W. Iowa and E. Nebraska is PRETTY “safe”.

[US Navy Vet]

When I was Active Duty US Navy in San Diego we used to call S. San Diego County- Chula Juana(Chula Vista),Nasty City(National City) and Veneral Beach(Imperial Beach).

[Jeff Chandler]

How’s the weather out there during the summer months?

It keeps the riff raff and relatives away.

[ro_dreaming]

Chula Vista, CA is a suburb of San Diego, CA. You can’t really tell where one ends and the other begins.

And, El Paso, safe? I thought it was in Mexico now...

[Responsibility2nd]

I seem to recall Spring Break in VB is filled with Obama sons tearing up the place. I went looking for the threads about that, but found nothing.

I believe there are a lot of local black colleges, but I don’t know for sure.

[carlo3b]

14. El Paso, Texas has a murder rate 28% below average; rape rate 2% above average; and robbery rate 39% below national average.

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[Ditter]

El Paso is neither large NOR safe. There is a military base there so that may account for a lower crime rate, if it is in fact true.

[Responsibility2nd]

Laugh all you want to. But facts are stubborn things.

Look upthread at people who know. El Paso is safe based on a well organized police department, the Militay presence, the Border Patrol and other positives.

[Mark17]

Certainly not in the area of Rosa's Cantina.

Is that the same place where a wild young cowboy was sharing a drink with wicked Felina?

[carlo3b]

My former asst. Security Manager is now a Sargent on the border at El Paso.. He tells me it’s a War Zone and they are ordered not to document any of it.. Sorry, I get it from the front.. :)

[usurper]

You are lucky you did not reach your destination and find 30 to 40 illegals in the back.

[luvbach1]

Chula Vista is near the Mexican border but it does not have the feeling of a border town (from my experience having been there frequently).

[skeeter]

Things must’ve changed - the town seemed sketchy back in the eighties.

[luvbach1]

I call BS on Virginia Beach too. Incidents with the Amish there are well-known.

Well known to locals but suppressed by local media. As the poster knows, they had one at the beach (small riot) a couple months ago that people outside of Hampton Roads (area name) VA probably have not heard of.

[philled]

I believe his love for her was stronger than his fear of death. That’s what Bob Weir told me a bunch of times. He heard it from Marty Robbins so it must have been true...

[Mark17]

I believe his love for her was stronger than his fear of death.

Whose? The wild young cowboy, or Marty Robbins? -:)

[Mr. Jeeves]

We’re #6 - and rightfully so. Thanks to Scottsdale’s racial demographics, Arizona’s gun laws, and Sheriff Joe - who scares away California liberals. :)