The 11th annual Safest City Award recently named Newton, Mass. as America's Safest City. Six cities in the state of California -- more than any other state -- were listed in the top 25 of the safest city rankings. California's "safest" cities are Mission Viejo (#4), Lake Forest (#6), Thousand Oaks (#7), Irvine (#11), Simi Valley (#17) and Sunnyvale (#18).
The Safest City Award is based on a city's rate for six basic crime categories: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft. All cities with populations of 75,000 or more that reported crime data to the FBI for the six crime categories were included in the rankings. In this year's survey, 354 cities were considered for the award.
The 2003 crime statistics also determined Camden, N.J. is the nation's most dangerous city. Camden is joined at the bottom of the crime rankings by Detroit, Mich., Atlanta, Ga., St. Louis, Mo. and Gary, Ind. Crime statistics for Chicago, Ill., Brockton, Mass., Newport News, Va. and Warren, Mich. were not available to be included in the rankings.
Posted by gandlwoods at December 1, 2004 08:46 AM