U.S. Cities Crime Rankings - How's your city doing?

[BridgeTheGap]

The results of CQ Press's 16th annual crime city rankings are in. The report ranks 393 American cities in six different categories -- murder, rape, burglary, robbery, aggravated assault and motor vehicle theft. The end result of these rankings were used to compile this list of the most dangerous cities in America.

A year ago, New Orleans held the crown. Click through our gallery and see which place dethroned The Big Easy and what other cities made the list.

http://os.cqpress.com/citycrime/2009/CityCrimeRankings2009.htm

[latebloomer]

1. NYC is 256?!

That surprises me.

[Barack_America]

4. They have a large population.

So anything that is calculated as a "per capita" is going to be lower for them. What would be interesting is if they split the boroughs up and evaluated them separately.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Anchorage is #146

on the most-to-least list. It could be worse, I guess.

[Barack_America]

3. What? Detroit's not #1?

From the way the media frames it, you figure Detroit would be #'s 1-10.

To be honest, however, as someone who has lived in Detroit and spent time in some of Camden's worst areas campaigning for our now President, I think this study got it right.

Camden needs some serious love. There are good people there, but they are in desperate need of some real assistance from our government.

[Romulox]

5. You're much more likely to be raped or murdered in El Paso, TX (257), than Dearborn, MI (200)

So the methodology seems a bit suspect.

:shrug:

[Celeborn Skywalker]

7. El Paso' pretty safe, though.

I lived there and, while poor, it's surprisingly not very crime ridden.

[Lance_Boyle]

8. So long as you don't challenge anyone's right for the love of a maiden... n/t

[SteelPenguin]

6. Be sure to do the Metro Area ones

Going by city is not a good gauge as it speaks in some cases more to how big the city itself is compared to it's suburban areas. Metro area gives a clearer picture.

For instance by City Boston gets a 73.80, but by Metro it's (4.32).

Pittsburgh, where the city itself counts for just one of over 200 separate townships in the county gets ranked 48th with a 129.58 by itself, but as a metro area it's ranked 227th with a (27.12).

Just sayin. Go by Metro.

[ThomWV]

9. Not one town in West Virginia on the list.

[happyslug]

10. Charleston WVA Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) is 158, thus WV is on the list

West Virgina Metropolitan Statistical Areas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_census_statistical_areas

OTHER West Virginia MSA on the list
Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV is 44

Wheeling MSA is 54

Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH is 19

Cumberland, MD-WV is 122 (Yes, Cumberland is in Maryland, but this MSA includes parts of West Virginia).

Yes, no West Virginian Cities are on the list, but West Virginia has at least 4 (MSA) on the list.

[Quantess]

11. The link didn't work for me.