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Old 06-18-2007, 12:43 PM
 
Location: South Bay
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Despite all the LA bashing that goes on around here...crime is actually much lower than you'd think lately.

Crime | New model police | Economist.com

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WILLIAM BRATTON, the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), likes to say that “cops count”. They certainly seem to count when Mr Bratton is in charge of them. New York's crime rate withered when he ran its police force in the mid-1990s, and Los Angeles has become more law-abiding ever since he arrived in 2002. Burglaries are down by a fifth, murders by a third and serious assaults by more than half. The setting for innumerable hard-boiled detective novels and violent television dramas is now safer than Salt Lake City in Utah.

Yet Los Angeles's good fortune is not replicated everywhere. Compared to ten years ago, when crime was in remission across America, the current diagnosis is complex and worrying. Figures released this week by the FBI show that, while property crimes continue to fall, the number of violent crimes has begun to drift upwards. In some places it has soared. Oakland, in northern California, had 145 murders last year—more than half again as many as in 2005. No fewer than 406 people died in Philadelphia, putting the murder rate back where it had been in the bad old days of the early 1990s.

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Old 06-18-2007, 01:11 PM
 
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I like topics that focus on the positives of L.A,because I seriously was tired of hearing all the negativity and bashing on this Amazing and Wonderful Region.

Congratulations to L.A on all of it's Achievements and Improvements

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Despite all the LA bashing that goes on around here...crime is actually much lower than you'd think lately.

Crime | New model police | Economist.com
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Old 06-18-2007, 01:12 PM
 
Location: South Bay
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YES! There is a reason LA is the 2nd largest city in the United States
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Old 06-18-2007, 02:05 PM
 
Location: Prospect, KY
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Just like Los Angeles, Salt Lake has many safe areas and many unsafe areas - you can't generalize about either city although many would like to.
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Old 06-18-2007, 02:09 PM
 
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Yup,and the only thing going down the toilet is the crime

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YES! There is a reason LA is the 2nd largest city in the United States
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Old 06-18-2007, 03:46 PM
 
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It's the same with New York, which is also ranked one of the safest cities in the U.S. per capita.
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Old 06-19-2007, 09:12 PM
 
Location: Surprise, Az
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Don't kid yourselves. Los Angeles is not a safe city. Stats lie. Murder counts do not. Would/Do you really feel safer in Los Angeles then SLC? Come on now.


LA Times Murder Blog and Map
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Old 06-20-2007, 04:56 PM
 
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Don't kid yourselves. Los Angeles is not a safe city. Stats lie. Murder counts do not. Would/Do you really feel safer in Los Angeles then SLC? Come on now.


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I feel safer in L.A. (Glendale, to be specific) than I did in Tucson, AZ, where hearing gunshots during the night was a weekly occurrence.
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Old 06-21-2007, 01:18 AM
 
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Don't kid yourselves. Los Angeles is not a safe city. Stats lie. Murder counts do not.
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It's the opposite. The reason they have stats is because murder counts lie.

3 murder in a town of 30 vs. 3 murders in a town of 300. BIG difference.
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Old 06-21-2007, 12:07 PM
 
Location: Paradise/Las Vegas
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dtran103 is 100% right.He/she even broke it down into smaller numbers so everyone can understand.You might want to check this out.None of the top metro areas are large cites!!!Yes theres more homicides in LA but you might be twice as likely for a homicide in cities like Cleveland,Atlanta,Las Vegas,Miami.

OVERALL (344 METROPOLITAN AREAS):
Safest cities listed first,dangerous cities listed after.

1
Fond du Lac, WI
1
Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, MI M.D.

2
State College, PA
2
Memphis, TN-MS-AR

3
Bangor, ME
3
Pine Bluff, AR

4
Eau Claire, WI
4
Las Vegas-Paradise, NV

5
Appleton, WI
5
Florence, SC

6
Sheboygan, WI
6
Myrtle Beach, SC

7
Bismarck, ND
7
Flint, MI

8
La Crosse, WI-MN
8
Stockton, CA

9
Logan, UT-ID
9
Jackson, TN

10
Wausau, WI
10
Shreveport-Bossier City, LA

11
Columbus, IN
11
Miami-Dade County, FL M.D.

12
Oshkosh-Neenah, WI
12
Charlotte-Gastonia, NC-SC

13
Edison, NJ M.D.
13
Hot Springs, AR

14
Harrisonburg, VA
14
Saginaw, MI

15
Rockingham County, NH M.D.
15
Albuquerque, NM

16
Nassau-Suffolk, NY M.D.
16
Little Rock, AR

17
Elizabethtown, KY
17
Yakima, WA

18
Lancaster, PA
18
Tucson, AZ

19
Wheeling, WV-OH
19
Oakland-Fremont, CA M.D.

20
Corvallis, OR
20
Macon, GA

21
Binghamton, NY
21
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ

22
Rochester, MN
22
Houston, TX

23
Portland, ME
23
Modesto, CA

24
Manchester-Nashua, NH
24
Sumter, SC

25
Cambridge-Newton, MA M.D.
25
Alexandria, LA

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