the most safest and dangerous cities by cq press is out and guess where jersey's on the list.

[goldengrain]

Originally Posted by michael212

I agree. Why show only part of the list on a thread when you could just post a link so everybody could see the entire info on it? I'm pretty sure there's about 1 or 2 cities from NJ that made the top 20 of the safest cities in the USA.

Well, in the top 30's, which is still excellent, in my opinion.

[nybbler]

Originally Posted by goldengrain

There are no federal mandates or methodology in a city's or state's reporting of crime

Actually there is; that's why they're called the FBI Uniform Crime Reports. They strive for uniformity, anyway, they don't always get it.

[goldengrain]

Originally Posted by nybbler

Actually there is; that's why they're called the FBI Uniform Crime Reports. They strive for uniformity, anyway, they don't always get it.

No, if you mandate you have the authority to demand it. THere are no federal mandates, only suggestions, leaving various local police forces and states to gather and report as they see fit, often excluding data that they think makes the state look bad.

This is important to me because, years back, when I was thinking of retirement, I was looking for low crime areas. A town in Georgia made the list because of its low crime rate. I found out that it had high crime, but merely left many incidents off the report to the feds and that they legally could do so.

[EBWick]

All I can say is Detroit got screwed