Certainly not in the area of Rosa's Cantina.
Posted on 07/25/2013 10:53:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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 the country for the 9th consecutive year. The city of just more than 200,000 has one of the country's top-ranked school systems, a median household income well above the national average, and a crime prevention method that includes keeping a thorough record of violence.
Nine of the 20 safest cities are located in the Southwest, with another six located in California. Conversely, on our list of the 25 most dangerous cities, there were no Southwestern cities and only two California cities.
Clearly there's a geographic trend here. It should be noted, however, that different crime reporting policies among states may make some states appear safer or more dangerous than they really are.
Neighboring cities Virgina Beach and Chesapeake, VA, are the only two on the list with murder rates equal to or above the national average. However, rape and robbery rates substantially below the national average compensate for this difference.
El Paso, Texas, one of the safest cities, is located directly across the Mexico-U.S. border from Juarez, Mexico, one of the world's most violent cities. Officials there say that drug cartels keep their base of operations in Mexico to avoid encounters with U.S. law enforcement.
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Marty Robbins fan? I love that song.
Fontana and Oxnard are among the safest cities in America? If so, why aren’t Compton, Calif. and East St. Louis, Ill. on the list?
ding...ding..ding...we have a winner...
we all have read how in Florida, there was a law or policy called the "Baker" act, that allowed HS principals to NOT report crime in the HS, particularly crime committed by blacks, and instead have in school punishment...
this is why T.Martin is dead...he was caught with weed, stolen jewelry, and was abusive IIRC and yet he had NO police record...so instead of being in juvie serving his time, he is dead...because he was suspended at the time, not in school, and not in jail...
I think other states treat crime stats differently too....there is a wide leniency given black or other minority yutes and thus not counted in the crime stats....JMHO....
America is actually much safer than it used to be in the 1980s and early '90s. Last year, the number of murders in America was at its lowest in four decades — having dropped 44% since its peak in 1991. The drop in homicides is even more obvious when you look at individual cities that once had bad reputations.
New York recorded 2,245 homicides at its peak in 1990 but only 414 homicides by 2012. Los Angeles had 2,589 homicides in 1992 but only 298 homicides last year.
Washington, D.C., a much smaller city, saw its murder number decline from a peak of 443 homicides in 1992 to only 88 homicides last year.
Overall, violent crimes including homicide, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery dropped 38% between 1992 and 2011. While the overall violent crime rate in America went up by 1.2% in 2012, that uptick was the first rise in crime since 2006.
The dramatic plunge in violent crime shocked many experts, who predicted America would just get more violent.
just visited El Paso once, it is very poor, but I’ll have to say the people are very nice...just saying...
Sorry; those will be the FIRST to be investigated for “Diversity Density”, and the neighborhoods will be injected with the inner-city tribal parasites in Section 8 housing, and the crime stats will reflect the unstoppable outcome.....
Little Rock (close to my home)....number 14. Beat by Memphis AGAIN!
I drove El Paso's Mission Trail the last time I was there and visited several houses of worship dating back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
I also drove past Rosa's Cantina. If I stop there on my next visit, I don't think I'll be playing music on the juke box and asking a Mexican girl for a dance.
Biased poll. Not ONE city in the Southeast?
Hialeah, which is incredibly unbelievable.
Perhaps they are right when they say that illegal aliens don't report crimes.
Do they ever do one on safest states? I was reading about crime statistics in N. Dakota. With a population of around 650,000 constant for over fifty years, the state has had years where they registered exactly one murder. There’s been an uptick in recent years blamed on the influx of wild and crazy oil field workers, but it’s pretty hard to beat a state that occasionally has one murder for more than half a million in population. Just try to think of a major American city (500,000+) that has had only one murder in any year in the past fifty years.
The graph you posted clearly shows the rates of violent crimes and murder zoomed up beginning about 1965.
Ummm... LBJ’s Civil Rights changes? Coincidence?
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