CQPress US Cities Ranking By Crime

Seen as controversial, CQPress for the past couple of years has taken violent crime statistic data from various major US cities and ranked the cities by crime rate. The next report comes out in December which will have 2012 data. I thought I should post which cities have the highest crime ranking and which have the lowest. It should be noted, that violent crime is usually concentrated in certain neighborhoods, violent crime can occur anywhere and personal decisions can make you more or less likely to be a victim of violent crime. Those were just some of the criticisms.

And before anyone asks, Chicago was not included because the city didn't submit rape statistic data (I think). Also understand that violent crimes officially consist of, murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft.


Out of 432 cities. This was taken from 2011 FBI crime data.

Most Violent Cities

1: Camden, New Jersey
2: Detroit, Michigan
3: Flint, Michigan
4: St. Louis, Missouri
5: Oakland, California
6: Cleveland, Ohio
7: Gary, Indiana
8: Birmingham, Alabama
9: New Orleans, Louisiana
10: Newark, New Jersey


Least Violent Cities

1: Fishers, Indiana
2: Johns Creek, Georgia
3: O'Fallon, Missouri
4: Carmel, Indiana
5: Newton, Massachusetts
6: Mission Viejo, California
7: Ramapo, New York
8: Naperville, Illinois
9: Amherst, New York
10: Irvine, California

Thoughts?


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