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Originally Posted by BBtB
I for one would like to know exactly how they came up with this information. Not because I doubt the information per se (If I was going to just pick what I thought was the top 10 most dangerous cities I would have picked several of the ones on there just from personal experience and word of mouth) however I would like more information, like was this done per capita or not? It seems for the most part the 10 safest cities are considerbly smaller cities. The shame about articles (and research) like this is that is could tell us so much more then it does. They leave out most of the hard data because, for one, Americans as a whole have very short attention spans and would never get to that part of the article, that and if someone was to come to and show the corelations between crime and things such as income, education and health, well we just wouldn't want to hear such a thing.
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The reason smaller cities or towns tend to be safer is because they simply tend to be. One side-effect of highly populated urban areas is that you get large numbers of people who don't know each other in one area. When you don't know someone, it is easier to commit a crime. It also means you have a compact area with many social groups, all of which have their own sets of norms; these will inevitably clash from time to time. Not only are the OC areas wealthy, but they're homogeneous. You don't have anything much more different than little cliques going on, and hence little conflict.
If you really want to know more about crime rates, just look them up on the US census site. You can learn as much as you feel is possible from that data, which is as close to raw data as any person wants to get when it comes to a census.