San Diego Safest U.S. City - FBI Report (Los Angeles: crime rates, neighborhoods)

[majoun]

Originally Posted by LuvSouthOC

Demographics play a big part in this.

S.D. has demographics more conducive to a safe and pleasant city than L.A. and O.C. do.

[sdurbanite]

Originally Posted by Neroburnedit

For the sake of comparison, San Diego's twin city, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico had 910 homicides in 2016. What a difference an international border makes.

And yet they want to build a wall to protect us from the "Bad guys". El Paso sits along border and also has a low crime rate.

[GSR13]

It's the weather and the sunshine that pre-empts violent crime in SD. However, the flip side to that is that it dulls passion and can make you lazy.

[sdurbanite]

Originally Posted by GSR13

It's the weather and the sunshine that pre-empts violent crime in SD. However, the flip side to that is that it dulls passion and can make you lazy.

So people in SD are too lazy to commit violent crimes? That's a new one. haha

[GSR13]

Originally Posted by sdurbanite

So people in SD are too lazy to commit violent crimes? That's a new one. haha

Sentence keyword: "can.". The weather does indeed chill people out, for better or for worse. It will make you somewhat less passionate in general even if it doesn't make you lazy.

And for the sake of profundity, "haha" right back at ya.

Edit - it will make you lazy enough to affect your reading comprehension . The old saying of "San Diegans read magazines, not books" just may well be true.

[GSR13]

Originally Posted by sdurbanite

And yet they want to build a wall to protect us from the "Bad guys". El Paso sits along border and also has a low crime rate.

Lolz, the post you quoted stated TJ has a high crime rate, not a low one.

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by RosieSD

Good points. The FBI also cautions against drawing too many simplistic conclusions from this data about the differences between cities, regions and states for reasons that include things like you've mentioned.

Another example of this would be Del Mar. Year after year, Del Mar falls at the bottom of the SD County list in terms of overall crimes per 100,000. If that's all you looked at, you'd probably conclude that Del Mar was a dangerous place to live. But, once you dig deeper, you discover that Del Mar's overall crime rate is because they have a higher property crime rate, not because it's filled with murders. A higher property crime rate in Del Mar makes some sense if you know anything about the economic demographics of the county. After all, if you were a burglar looking to steal stuff from homes to pawn for big bucks, would you focus your attention on low income areas or high income areas where the good stuff is more likely to be found?

So, you definitely need to be careful about drawing conclusions from the overall data without considering and comparing other factors.

Someone last night suggested that sprawl might correlate to crime. I looked to see if the FBI tracks that at all, but the closest thing they have would be that in one of the reports they break the national rates out into cities, suburban areas, and other areas. I haven't had a chance to dig into that data yet though and it doesn't seem to be available for SD County or even at the state level.

But those of us who live here in San Diego, pretty much know where those areas fall anyhow.

It is also wise to look at crime per sq mile. How many crimes near you, is more important than how many people live near you.

[sav858]

Originally Posted by GSR13

It's the weather and the sunshine that pre-empts violent crime in SD. However, the flip side to that is that it dulls passion and can make you lazy.

If that was true then places like South LA/Compton, Oakland, etc...should have less violent crime as well. Tijuana and Cape Town too.

[RosieSD]

Originally Posted by expatCA

It is also wise to look at crime per sq mile. How many crimes near you, is more important than how many people live near you.

Yes. That's why I recommend checking out your address (or potential address) on a site like crimemapping.com which will show you crime data within two miles of any address.

[sdurbanite]

Originally Posted by GSR13

Sentence keyword: "can.". The weather does indeed chill people out, for better or for worse. It will make you somewhat less passionate in general even if it doesn't make you lazy.

And for the sake of profundity, "haha" right back at ya.

Edit - it will make you lazy enough to affect your reading comprehension . The old saying of "San Diegans read magazines, not books" just may well be true.

Besides you, who else says that San Diegans read magazines and not books? I've never heard that before.

Nah, my reading comprehension is fine. You're just salty because I made you you look silly for suggesting that our good weather is the reason for San Diego's low crime rate. What about the lower than average poverty rate and higher than average educational attainments and median household incomes?

Check out how the safest cities in the list below are mostly in the Northeast and Midwest.
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