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Old 01-24-2015, 10:44 AM
 
Location: WA
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Here are the numbers for Texas metros from least crime (violent crimes) to most: ( per 100,000 pop. )

Brownsville 240.3
San Angelo 257.3
Sherman 266.4
Austin 271.3
Tyler 278.5
Midland 280.5
McAllen 286.7
Dallas 332.9
Abilene 333.1
Wichita Falls 341.8
Waco 343.5
El Paso 347.3
College Station 371.5
Longview 414.2
Laredo 430.1
San Antonio 459.7
Victoria 495.4
Corpus Christi 523.5
Amarillo 524.4
Beaumont 536.1
Texarkana 558.5
Houston 559.0
Lubbock 658.0
Odessa 806.4
What is your source for this? Is the Dallas listing for the whole metroplex? Because I don't see Fort Worth and Arlington listed and they are certainly large enough. If the Dallas listing includes every little town in the greater metro area from Denton to Waxahachie then it probably isn't very meaningful. Same goes for Houston. Does it fold in all the suburbs from Katy to the Woodlands?
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Old 01-24-2015, 10:54 AM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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What is your source for this? Is the Dallas listing for the whole metroplex? Because I don't see Fort Worth and Arlington listed and they are certainly large enough. If the Dallas listing includes every little town in the greater metro area from Denton to Waxahachie then it probably isn't very meaningful. Same goes for Houston. Does it fold in all the suburbs from Katy to the Woodlands?
Read the first sentence in the post. It says metro.
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Old 01-24-2015, 01:04 PM
 
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I am surprised by Brownsville
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Old 01-24-2015, 04:46 PM
 
Location: Oil Capital of America
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What is your source for this? Is the Dallas listing for the whole metroplex? Because I don't see Fort Worth and Arlington listed and they are certainly large enough. If the Dallas listing includes every little town in the greater metro area from Denton to Waxahachie then it probably isn't very meaningful. Same goes for Houston. Does it fold in all the suburbs from Katy to the Woodlands?
Its from here.

FBI — Table 6

The table does break down the Dallas Ft. Worth area into smaller metros but it doesn't change the rate much.
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Old 01-24-2015, 05:25 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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There are obviously distortions in the way these are compiled. Texarkana is the fourth most dangerous city in Texas? Really?
The website states that

Today, four annual publications, Crime in the United States, National Incident-Based Reporting System,Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, and Hate Crime Statistics are produced from data received from over 18,000 city, university/college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies voluntarily participating in the program. The crime data are submitted either through a state UCR Program or directly to the FBI’s UCR Program.

This is a voluntary system so I'm guessing the information itself is parsed by many of the local agencies , and some "agencies" may not participate at all, in which case their stats would not be counted at all. Since there are many more "agencies" in the DFW area, well you can guess what I am suggesting from here...

FBI — Uniform Crime Reporting
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Old 01-25-2015, 08:11 AM
 
Location: Port Charlotte
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Ronnie:

Dallas News reported on this a few years ago, that PD was downgrading some crimes, lumping multiple crimes under one crime charge, etc, all to reduce crime stats reported to the FBI.
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Old 01-25-2015, 03:26 PM
 
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I live in Midland and have always known Odessa as a violent and crime-ridden town.
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Old 01-25-2015, 03:34 PM
 
Location: Austin
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I never knew Odessa was a crime ridden town. But what makes it so dangerous? And I thought Killeen and Temple were crime ridden areas.
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Old 01-25-2015, 04:27 PM
 
Location: The Bayou City
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Ronnie:

Dallas News reported on this a few years ago, that PD was downgrading some crimes, lumping multiple crimes under one crime charge, etc, all to reduce crime stats reported to the FBI.
I've heard that too. That now Dallas PD are classifying multiple charges as one crime. Examples such as a drunk at a bar punching multiple people in the face. They are counting it as one "bar fight" instead of numerous counts of assault. Same for strings of car break ins being counted as one burglary if the same person/group of people broke into multiple cars.
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Old 01-25-2015, 07:46 PM
 
Location: WA
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I never knew Odessa was a crime ridden town. But what makes it so dangerous? And I thought Killeen and Temple were crime ridden areas.
It's the oil patch. Too many transient single male workers out there. And the town itself is pretty poor.
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