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Your comment is a little old but I want to quickly respond, it's really in East Oakland such crimes occur, with exception to robberies being a little frequent in the nicer parts. Its heavily focused however; local news used to run stories about how terrible Oakland was, and half the city didn't understand what they were talking about because its really condensed.
Although as I suspected, crime has dropped quite a bit since the 90's, especially with the wealthier San Franciscan families moving in and raising rates. The only thing rising is break-ins really, because of the accumulated wealth.
Yeah, someone from Indy was ragging on Chicago and how dangerous it was....until someone quietly pointed out that Indianapolis has a higher murder rate than Chicago.
Rates as of today for the year:
Indianapolis: 8.3/100,000
Chicago: 5.5/100,000
Indianapolis is up 19% from last year and 71% from two years ago. Not sure what's going on there.
I call it the "Peyton Manning effect." When he left Indy for Denver, the whole city went sh**house.
For 40 years there used to be a selling point for Houston that Dallas had a higher violent crime rate, that changed in 2008. Houston needs to follow what Dallas started in 2007 - changing their definitions for crimes, start playing with the numbers & start not taking reports.
For 40 years there used to be a selling point for Houston that Dallas had a higher violent crime rate, that changed in 2008. Houston needs to follow what Dallas started in 2007 - changing their definitions for crimes, start playing with the numbers & start not taking reports.
That's why I don't put too much on statistics. You have to experience a city before you can make an assessment on overall safety of a city and compare it to another.
For 40 years there used to be a selling point for Houston that Dallas had a higher violent crime rate, that changed in 2008. Houston needs to follow what Dallas started in 2007 - changing their definitions for crimes, start playing with the numbers & start not taking reports.
Houston feels quite more dangerous than dallas to me. Im willing to bet houston is the most dangerous major city in texas.
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