Comparing crime stats based on metro areas vs cities?

[Tom Lennox 70]

Originally Posted by Hard in the paint

Salisbury is like a ghetto Maybury. The crime there is horrible, it even out ranked Baltimore for crime.

I live in Baltimore now and this place actually FEELS and LOOKS dangerous in terms of the run-down row houses and the trash-filled streets, also the people in Salisbury come across as more country despite some ghetto/hood elements there, but Salisbury never felt unsafe to me.

[bryson662001]

Why are some people so obsessed with crime? I think it's a boring sunject.