New Mexico’s 20 Safest Cities of 2018 (Las Cruces, Santa Fe: crime rate, most dangerous, statistics)

[Poncho_NM]

New Mexico’s 20 Safest Cities of 2018
May 15, 2018

How We Chose the Safest Cities in New Mexico

To identify the twenty safest cities in New Mexico, we reviewed the 2016 FBI crime report statistics and population data. Cities that fell below identified population thresholds or that failed to submit a complete crime report to the FBI were excluded from the ranking system.

Entire Article At: https://www.safewise.com/blog/safest-cities-new-mexico/

1. Corrales
2. Los Alamos
3. Sunland Park
4. Lovington
5. Raton
6. Rio Rancho
7. Las Cruces
8. Ruidoso
9. Truth or Consequences
10. Alamogordo
11. Santa Fe
12. Portales
13. Grants
14. Carlsbad
15. Bloomfield
16. Clovis
17. Hobbs
18. Aztec
19. Deming
20. Roswell

[Oregon Bill]

I'm surprised that Las Cruces is safer than Alamogordo.

[Poncho_NM]

Originally Posted by Oregon Bill

I'm surprised that Las Cruces is safer than Alamogordo.

Times change, methods change, etc, etc, etc

From the article:

How We Chose the Safest Cities in New Mexico

To identify the twenty safest cities in New Mexico, we reviewed the 2016 FBI crime report statistics and population data. Cities that fell below identified population thresholds or that failed to submit a complete crime report to the FBI were excluded from the ranking system.

[rwjoyak]

There's been repeated dialogue in other threads about how the FBI crime statistics shouldn't be used to compare different localities. Not sure why we should think this list is any better.

[mike0421]

I saw a related article here on Minnesota's safest cities. Their 20th ranked city (St. Francis) had lower property and violent crimes than New Mexico's leader, Corrales.

[elkotronics]

I saw a related article here on Minnesota's safest cities. Their 20th ranked city (St. Francis) had lower property and violent crimes than New Mexico's leader, Corrales.

So in gradation comparison you're saying that New Mexico is way safer than Minnesota, eh?

[mike0421]

Originally Posted by elkotronics

I saw a related article here on Minnesota's safest cities. Their 20th ranked city (St. Francis) had lower property and violent crimes than New Mexico's leader, Corrales.

So in gradation comparison you're saying that New Mexico is way safer than Minnesota, eh?

Quite the opposite.

[elkotronics]

Quite the opposite.

For some reason my brain was putzing out yesterday trying to understand what you were saying with this post. So we're oodles and scaboodles worse off here in New Mexico than it is in Minnesota with crime.

What is Minnesota's most dangerous city for crime? Gotta be Minneapolis/St. Paul, eh?

[mike0421]

Originally Posted by elkotronics

Quite the opposite.

For some reason my brain was putzing out yesterday trying to understand what you were saying with this post. So we're oodles and scaboodles worse off here in New Mexico than it is in Minnesota with crime.

What is Minnesota's most dangerous city for crime? Gotta be Minneapolis/St. Paul, eh?

I don't know if this site is referencing FBI statistics, or local crime data, but according to this website, Virgina, Minnesota is the most violent:

The Most Dangerous Cities in Minnesota | Hot 96.7

There are some other websites that report a rather obscure town in Northwest Minnesota, Bemidji, to be the state leader in crime. It has a 4.82 violent crime rate per 1,000 citizens. If Bemidji Minnesota was placed into New Mexico, it would be the 15th safest city, supplanting Bloomfield, and slightly more violent than Carlsbad.

[Oregon Bill]

Mike, Lutherans in sensible shoes make very poor criminals.