Safest Big Cities (crime, law, statistics)

[caliguy92832]

This is based on crime rate. Cities with at least a 300K population.

Safest Big Cities
1. Anaheim, CA
2. San Diego, CA
3. San Jose, CA
4. Austin, TX
5. Mesa, AZ
6. Henderson, NV
7. El Paso, TX
8. Virginia Beach, VA
9. New York, NY
10. Seattle, WA

Source: https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucr/publications

[Chicagoland60426]

Irvine, CA meets the population criteria, as of 2020. Rate is lower than Anaheim by a wide margin.

[JMT]

From the link provided by the OP:

UCR data are sometimes used to compile rankings of individual jurisdictions and institutions of
higher learning. These incomplete analyses have often created misleading perceptions which
adversely affect geographic entities and their residents. For this reason, the FBI has a longstanding policy against ranking participating law enforcement agencies on the basis of crime
data alone. Despite repeated warnings against these practices, some data users continue to
challenge and misunderstand this position.

Data users should not rank locales because there are many factors that cause the nature and
type of crime to vary from place to place. UCR statistics include only jurisdictional population
figures along with reported crime, clearance, or arrest data. Rankings ignore the uniqueness of
each locale.

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