Pittsburgh Metro Crime rate (Philadelphia, York: 2014, house, neighborhood)

[bradjl2009]

I thought this was good information to share and I saw this on the general US forum where someone took the 50 largest metros (with 3 exceptions) and ranked them by their violent crime rate. Unsurprisingly Pittsburgh is one of the lowest crime rates. I was surprised to see Hartford and Cincinnati with such a low rate because neither core city really has a safe reputation. The data is from 2011 per the FBI and per every 100,000 residents. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr...tables/table-6


Richmond: 234.8
Raleigh: 243.3
San Jose: 256.1
Portland: 259.7
Austin: 287.1
Hartford: 293.4
Cincinnatti: 294.5
Pittsburgh: 299.7
Salt Lake City: 303.8
Virginia Beach: 324.4
Seattle: 330.2
Washington DC: 334.6
San Diego: 351.5
Denver: 354.8
Riverside: 354.9
Dallas/Ft Worth: 358.4
Columbus: 362.8
Boston: 374.7
Phoenix: 379.8
San Antonio: 398.1
Atlanta: 400.9
Cleveland: 404.6
Los Angeles: 405.4
New York: 406.0
Louisville: 419.0
Sacramento: 420.2
Charlotte: 428.1
Tampa: 435.2
Buffalo: 439.2
Milwaukee: 448.1
Kansas City: 476.8
New Orleans: 490.6
St Louis: 495.5
San Francisco: 508.3
Birmingham: 524.2
Oklahoma City: 528.2
Jacksonville: 528.6
Philadelphia: 532.3
Houston: 550.8
Detroit: 573.8
Indianapolis: 586.2
Orlando: 595.7
Miami: 596.7
Baltimore: 646.2
Las Vegas: 647.0
Nashville: 650.8
Memphis: 980.4

[eschaton]

I grew up in Connecticut, although not near Hartford. Still, Hartford is a very small city (124,000 in 2010) within a larger metro (Just under 1.5 million). The two outlying counties that the census puts in the MSA are basically not attached to the Hartford commuter pool except for their extreme northern and western towns respectively as well. And almost all of the other towns are low-crime, overwhelmingly white suburbs.

[eschaton]

argh...misread, you just tracked violent crime, not total crime

[bradjl2009]

Originally Posted by eschaton

argh...misread, you just tracked violent crime, not total crime

Yeah I saw this list in a different forum and thought I'd share with everyone to show where the metro ranks.

[Aqua Teen Carl]

This forum lovvvvvvvveeeeessssssss its crime stats.

I envision posters here have multi monitor battlestations in their house with SpotCrime open 24/7. They then receive RSS feeds whenever a crime is committed while proceeding point at one of the screens only to shout, "CRRIIIMMMEEESSSSS ARE OCCURING!!!!!!"

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by Aqua Teen Carl

I envision posters here have multi monitor battlestations in their house with SpotCrime open 24/7. They then receive RSS feeds whenever a crime is committed while proceeding point at one of the screams only to shout, "CRRIIIMMMEEESSSSS ARE OCCURING!!!!!!"

We don't do that. We have Uptown Kid. He does it for us. We appreciate it.

[Devout Urbanist]

Originally Posted by bradjl2009

I was surprised to see Hartford and Cincinnati with such a low rate because neither core city really has a safe reputation.

I lived with my grandparents in NW Detroit pretty much every summer from the time I was born until I was an adult. During those years Detroit was widely regarded as "the most dangerous city in America." And yet I felt perfectly happy and safe there. Played outside in the street with all the other neighborhood kids, went all over town with friends and family. A city's bad reputation is very often the product of America's hysterical, pathologically lurid media, which plays into a certain segment's disdain for urban life by suggesting that, to paraphrase Norman Mailer, in the so-called "inner city" a violent maniac lurks behind every Oreo cookie.

[Clint.]

Originally Posted by Aqua Teen Carl

This forum lovvvvvvvveeeeessssssss its crime stats.

I envision posters here have multi monitor battlestations in their house with SpotCrime open 24/7. They then receive RSS feeds whenever a crime is committed while proceeding point at one of the screens only to shout, "CRRIIIMMMEEESSSSS ARE OCCURING!!!!!!"

I find your vowels to be mis-emphasized. I think it should be "Criiiiiiiiiiimes are occurring!!!!". At least, when I yell at my crime stat monitors that's how I say it because it's too hard to drag the "s".

[Clint.]

Pittsburgh is a pretty safe place, especially for people who don't get wrapped up in criminal activity - the culmination of which is often violent crime.





The U.S. is experiencing historically low rates of homicides, as is Europe. Imagine the thrill of tracking crime stats in 1500! Think how low it would be if drugs were not traded illegally, and how many people would not be subjected to imprisonment, which is probably the best way to ruin someone's prospects for financial success in life. Stopping the supply and/or demand for drugs is not really working, and stringent enforcement of those laws puts a lot of people in prison, thus inflicting a heavy financial toll not just on taxpayers but on the prisoners and especially the prisoners families. May as well legalize drugs and see what happens. Maybe then the violent crimes rates will be even lower, along with other positive benefits.