Posted on 11/21/2005 7:18:39 PM PST by Lorianne
Cities over 500,000:
Safest 10
San Jose, CA El Paso, TX Honolulu, HI New York, NY Austin, TX San Diego, CA Louisville, KY San Antonio, TX Fort Worth, TX Jacksonville, FL
Most Dangerous 10:
Detroit, MI Baltimore, MD Washington, DC Memphis, TN Dallas, TX Philadelphia, PA Columbus, OH Nashville, TN Houston, TX Charlotte, NC
It helps that NYC has 40,000 cops. LA has about 9,500, in an area about 3 times as big.
Doesn't surprise me in the least about Fort Worth and Dallas.
My parents live in Dallas, and it has gone down hill fast in the last 10 years.
New York especially doesn't deserve to be on the list. It's a much safer place than most imagine.
The Lake Highlands area has lots of crime now. It used to be one of the safest areas when I was growing up.
Whenever we visit my parents there, we cannot leave anything in the car because it will get broken into.
My brother's house in LH got broken into several times.
It's gone downhill since they converted apartments into low-income housing.
I might add that the ghettos in LA are rapidly turing brown, and the most heavily black area of LA county is a middle to upper middle class area now (Baldwin Park and Ladera Heights).
I didn't know that.
It does so DESERVE to be on the list! Reread the article...N.Y.C. is listed as one of the TEN SAFEST. :-)
Guiliani's accomplishment was to get the 40,000 cops to actually be productive. But with that number of cops in a smaller area, you can have cops walking the streets. LA can't.
Another Texas here laughing right along with you Squantos!
DALLAS - Shoppers appear to be abandoning Dallas for stores located in area suburbs, according to sales tax revenue. For the sixth month during the past 12 months, Dallas sales tax revenue failed to meet projections compared to the previous year. The city's portion of sales tax collected by retailers helps fund city services.
Economists said surrounding suburbs have succeeded in luring Dallas shoppers faster than Dallas can build new retail attractions.
"The competition among cities is not new," said Craig Depken, an economic professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. "If Dallas is now on the losing end of that, that may be a new development."
Dallas Mayor Laura Miller pointed to new developments such as expansion at North Park Mall, downtown rejuvenation and the Trinity River Project that could turn the tide during the coming years.
"We are working as hard as we can to turn this around and get more sales tax revenue for our city," she said.
It was also Ruddy's "BROKEN WINDOW" crime prevention acts.
The Lake Highlands area has lots of crime now. It used to be one of the safest areas when I was growing up.
Whenever we visit my parents there, we cannot leave anything in the car because it will get broken into.
My brother's house in LH got broken into several times.
It's gone downhill since they converted apartments into low-income housing.
My hometown of Louisville named among the 10 safest cities.......
Cities in our neighboring states named in the 10 most dangerous cities (Columbus OH, Memphis TN, Nashville TN)
Wow, only 32. I'm surprised. I knew that Charlotte is "bigger" than Atlanta -- it was a big story in the papers here -- but of course that's based on the arbitrary, artificial, and highly variable city limits lines. By any reasonable standard, Atlanta's 3 or 4 times the size of Charlotte.
With some of the high-crime, high minority cities excised from the 500,000+ category because of their inability to annex their burbs, maybe being 10th worst out of 32 isn't so bad.
Most dangerous place in the country was listed as Camden, N.J., which is only three, no make that ten miles from what was touted just a few months ago as the best town to live in, Moorestown, N.J. - very strange......
And that was part of the "BROKEN WINDOW" policy.
Huge differences between cities in the metroplex. Richardson and Plano for example, have violent crimes rates that are a fraction of that in Dallas.
Plus a lot of NYC neighborhoods are being revilatized by Yuppies, and yes, you guessed it, immigrants. Bed Stey in Brooklyn is now being gentrified. Who could have guessed it?
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