Crime is way up in Frisco, Allen and Flower Mound! (Dallas: low crime, house)

[Lakewooder]

At a 25% increase rate it won't take long for Frisco and Allen to pass up Dallas. Plus crime is decreasing in Dallas.

[TriumphOfTheSprint]

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

At a 25% increase rate it won't take long for Frisco and Allen to pass up Dallas. Plus crime is decreasing in Dallas.

True, if that rate is maintained. Not all crime in Dallas is decreasing - from the article:

Dallas' crime rate has been the highest among the nation's largest cities since 1998. Its ranking for 2006 is not yet available.

While the city saw increases in rape and robbery in 2006, there were fewer aggravated assaults and a total of 187 murders - down from 202 the previous year, according to DPS. Property crime was also down.

Rape and robbery are up - to me those are more serious than property crimes.

[Lakewooder]

But murder is down to a 40 year low.

[GoPadge]

It's not that we're so callous about crime, it's just that we're jaded a bit about statistics. If anyone's interested I found the base numbers for reported crimes here http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/directo...on/2006CIT.pdf. See pages 7 and 8. The numbers appear to be hard statistics, not per 100,000.

Frisco reported 673 more crimes in 2006 than in 2005. Of those 94.7% were thefts or burglaries. In that same time Frisco grew an estimated 7,450 people.

Allen reported 350 more crimes in 2006 than in 2005. Of those 98.3% were thefts or burglaries. In that same time Allen grew an estimated 6,000 people.

Flower Mound reported 116 more crimes in 2006 than in 2005. Of those 84.5% were thefts or burglaries. Flower Mound grew an estimated 900 people.

If you look at violent crimes (murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assaults), Frisco reported one more murder, 4 less rapes, 3 more robberies and twenty more assaults, Allen reported no change in murders (0), two less rapes, two more robberies and six more assaults, and Flower Mound reported one more murder, seven more rapes, more more robbery and no change in assaults.

[GoPadge]

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

At a 25% increase rate it won't take long for Frisco and Allen to pass up Dallas. Plus crime is decreasing in Dallas.

Right.... That's a 25% increase in number of reported crimes. It would take roughly 17 years before Frisco catches up to Dallas' 100,000+ reported crimes at a 25% growth rate and no intervention. And that assumes that the Frisco crime wave doesn't spill over into Dallas.....

[Lakewooder]

'Since the Dallas crime rate (per capita) is roughly twice that of Frisco and almost 4 times that of Allen (according to DPS 2005 stats - 2006 is not published online yet), I would say that that would be a more significant increase in the number of crimes per capita than in Frisco and Allen". - Triumph

I was commenting from that post..

[loves2read]

Crime goes where people go, more people...more crime...

[Lakewooder]

...more scars upon the land - John Denver

[momof2dfw]

Frisco is home to a large mall that attracts a LOT of people and not all for the good. A mall this size in an area that is full of people that "don't get involved" or "keep to themselves" and "transient" of sorts you are going to have a field ripe for those looking to take advantage of the situation. And anywhere you have that many construction sites you are going to have thefts.

[Lakewooder]

Plus you have two-earner income parents (they've go to to keep suburban squirrel cage going) who put kids in school and daycare and are not home all day. That's ripe for burglars.

In my neighborhood, we have people who are rich or retired, older widows, ladies who don't work and some men who don't work, some who work different hours, some who are at-home artists or late night musicians, some have live-in maids, some are maids, etc...so there is always somebody home at every other house or so...