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http:www://safewise.com/safest-cities-America This site lists the 100 safest cities of over 10,000 in population for 2015. (sorry, don't know how to make this computer post the thread. perhaps someone could help me with that)

Violent crime reports rose in America for the first time in 2006, according to FBI statistics. However, the recent 1.2% increase belies a long-term trend: America is becoming a much safer country. To find out which parts of America are the safest, we looked at the FBI's latest report on crime and found cities with violent crime rates substantially below the national average. We only included cities with populations of more than 200,000 to exclude suburban areas. Many of the cities are repeat winners from our 2011 report on America's safest cities. Irvine, Calif. has been the safest city in...

Virtually no location in the U.S. is 100% safe from dangerous weather. According to the National Weather Service, the combination of flooding, lightning, tornadoes, tropical cyclones, snow/ice storms, extreme heat, extreme cold, high winds, and rip currents claims almost 600 lives each year in the U.S., on average. Of course, catastrophic events in any year (Hurricane Katrina, spring 2011 tornadoes) can skew the averages. However, there are locations in the U.S. where the weather is generally "safer."

Morgan Quitno Press recently published its 13th annual ranking of the safest and the most dangerous cities in the US with populations of at least 75,000, based on the rate of murders, rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts reported to the FBI. The 2006 ranking of the 371 cities meeting the criteria was based on final 2005 FBI statistics (released Sept. 18, 2006). Human Events reports that in 2005 the mayors of the Top 10 Safest Cities in America were evenly divided between Republicans (Greece, NY; Cary, NC; Colonie, NY; Mission Viejo, CA) and Democrats (Irvine, CA;...

A list of the safest and most dangerous cities overall, as compiled by Morgan Quitno Press, which bases the rankings on FBI figures released in June. The list starts with the safest cities and ends with the most dangerous. Only cities that reported crime rates were included in the list. For example, New Orleans was not included this year because its police department did not report figures.

-- Immigration authorities raided the offices of a Southern California fencing company Wednesday, seizing boxes of documents and arresting 17 employees who are believed to be in the United States illegally. Golden State Fence Co. had rehired some of the 17 employees who were arrested despite previous warnings by federal authorities that they were ineligible to work, officials with the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau said in a press release. Authorities searched company offices in Riverside, where the company is based, and in Oceanside, about 35 miles north of San Diego. All 17 employees arrested were...

Irvine is the safest big city in the United States, according to an Orange County Register analysis of preliminary crime statistics released Monday by the FBI. Orange is No. 13 on the same list, which ranks violent crime by population in cities of more than 100,000 people.