AP: Houston fourth most dangerous big city in US in 2005
There's good news and bad news in the FBI's latest statistics on crime in the nation's ten largest cities.
The good news is, Houston isn't worst. That dishonor goes to Dallas.
The bad news is, Houston (and Phoenix, the last stop for Chief Hurtt's soft-on-crime policies) are much closer statistically to Dallas than they are to America's safest big city, New York.
Here is the AP's breakdown of large cities and per capita crime in 2005, from the Chronicle:
1. New York: one crime per 37.38 residents.
2. San Jose, Calif.: one crime per 34.46 residents.
3. Los Angeles: one crime per 25.97 residents.
4. San Diego: one crime per 24.09 residents.
5. Chicago: one crime per 21.9 residents.
6. Philadelphia: one crime per 17.96 residents.
7. Houston: one crime per 14.17 residents.
8. San Antonio: one crime per 14.12 residents.
9. Phoenix: one crime per 14.10 residents.
10. Dallas: one crime per 11.79 residents.
UPDATE: Some useful caveats on the use of the FBI's crime data are located here.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/19/06 10:24 AM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (2)
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