My county is about equal to San Francisco. Yet the two largest Cities were I live (San Jose and SF) were rated the safest in the US.

Which is Odd because these last few years we been having alot of murders in our area. That just goes to show that the World is a fucked up and violent place


TEN SAFEST LARGE CITIES FOR MURDER, 2002
CITY

PER 100,000
(1) Honolulu 2.0
(2) El Paso 2.4
(3) San Jose 3.1
(4) Austin 3.7
(5) San Diego 3.8
(6) Portland 3.9
(7) Seattle 4.5
(8) New York 7.3
(9) San Francisco 7.3
(10) Oklahoma City 8.5



TEN WORST LARGE CITIES FOR MURDER, 2002
CITY

PER 100,000
(1) Washington, DC 45.8 <-- doh the irony.
(2) Detroit 42.0
(3) Baltimore 38.3
(4) Memphis 24.7
(5) Chicago 22.2
(6) Philadelphia 19.0
(7) Columbus 18.1
(8) Milwaukee 18.0
(9) Los Angeles 17.5
(10) Dallas 15.8



TEN WORST STATES FOR MURDER, 2003
STATE

PER 100,000
(1) Louisiana 13.0
(2) Maryland 9.5
(3) Mississippi 9.3
(4) Nevada 8.8
(5) Arizona 7.9
(6) Georgia 7.6
(7) South Carolina 7.2
(8) California 6.8 <--- low worst
(9) Tennessee 6.8
(10) Alabama 6.6


TEN SAFEST STATES FOR MURDER, 2003
STATE

PER 100,000
(1) Maine 1.2
(2) South Dakota 1.3
(3) New Hampshire 1.4
(4) Iowa 1.6
(5) Hawaii 1.7
(6) Idaho 1.8
(7) North Dakota 1.9
(8) Oregon 1.9
(9) Massachusetts 2.2
(10) Rhode Island 2.3



This one made me think. Though it was 30 years ago.. i was shocked to see the NL as one of the worst countries to live in

TEN WORST COUNTRIES FOR MURDER (MID-1970s)
COUNTRY

PER 100,000
(1) Lesotho 141
(2) Bahamas 23
(3) Guyana 22
(4) Lebanon 20
(5) Netherlands Antilles 12 <---wtf
(6) Iraq 12
(7) Sri Lanka 12
(8) Cyprus 11
(9) Trindad & Tobago 10
(10) Jamaica 10

Here is the 1990s.

SELECTED WORST CITIES
MURDER (LATE-1990s)
EUROPE AND USA
CITY

MURDERS
PER 100,000
(1) Washington, D.C., USA 69.3 <--- understandable
(2) Philadelphia, USA 27.4 <--- understandable
(3) Dallas, USA 24.8 <--- A little shocked
(4) Los Angeles, USA 22.8 <--- understandable
(5) Chicago, USA 20.5 <--- understandable
(6) Phoenix, USA 19.1 <---- A little shocked
(7) Moscow, Russia 18.1 <--- understandable
(8) Houston, USA 18.0 <--- understandable
(9) New York City, USA 16.8 <--- Thought it would be far worst
(10) Helsinki, Finland 12.5 <--- WTF?
(11) Lisbon, Portugal 9.7 <--- understandable
(12) San Diego, USA 8.0 <--- It said this was a safe area to live in.
(13) Amsterdam, Netherlands 7.7 <--- I thought the pot would help.
(14) Belfast, N.Ireland, UK 4.4 <--- understandable
(15) Geneva, Switzerland 4.2 <--- Violent ass motha fukas.
(16) Copenhagen, Denmark 4.0 <--- Hell is wrong with you people
(17) Berlin, Germany 3.8 <--- understandable
(18) Paris, France 3.3 <--- understandable
(19) Stockholm, Sweden 3.0 <--- Sad
(20) Prague, Czechoslovakia 2.9 <--- understandable


Seems you people up in northern europe central europe have deep issues. Maybe it's a lack of sun? :headscrat

Even the boonies of Canada are bad while the major cities are about where Americas safest cities are


PROVINCES AND TERRITORIES RANKED BY HOMICIDE RATE, 2003
PROVINCE/TERRITORY

PER 100,000
(1) Nunavut 10.21
(2) Northwest Territories 9.55
(3) Saskatchewan 4.12
(4) Manitoba 3.70
(5) Yukon 3.22
(6) British Columbia 2.24
(7) Alberta 2.00
(8) Ontario 1.45
(9) Quebec 1.34
(10) New Brunswick 1.07
(11) Newfoundland 0.96
(12) Nova Scotia 0.85
(13) Prince Edward Island 0.73

Well, my house is safe is because I pay attention and I'm heavily armed, but my city is the 46th most violent in America for cities with more than 100,000 people.

it seems like every few weeks someone gets murderd here in sacramento but i still feel safe mostly. but then again having 2 pitbulls and and a few side arms always makes you sleep a lil beter

Man i live near a town of about 20,000 people and even we had about 4 murders last year...the UK is a dangerous place to live it's even worse now we have all the immigrants from the old eastern block countries coming here...

low population in my town 0 murders.

The Orlando area is absolutely nuts right now. Murders have jumped to 60+ for 2006, and the violent crime rate is thru the roof.

I guess I shouldn't complain about my area since It seems to be worst in other parts of the US. Still.. gone are the safer days of the 70s and early 80s. Unless you lived in a really bad inner city area, You almost never saw murders. And those that did happen were usually family related.

Trog you forgot one really violent state.It's called Florida.Florida is a lot more violent than Maryland.P.S.Where did you get this information from?

Orlando should be up there we have had a 300% increase in homicides this year.


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/...-home-headlines

There I am!

And:
http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=5446461




And y'all probably thought I was making it up when I said someone was shot in front of my house and the cops didn't even come.

I know how you feel there has been drive bys in front of my house.

Im extremely safe, but no one in this city has guns and Ive never seen a pit bull.. women walk home at 1am on the streets, children play in the streets, and neighbors walk into each others homes and say greetings.. welcome to Tokyo.

Hmmm 250,000 people in my town, Only about 10-25 murders last year.
but nearing around 16 Suicides in the local park alone.

Rapes the thing you have to watch for here, not murder.

awww Tokyo sounds like such a cool place to live Vet.

well..it can be cool.. but it has its downside.. My apartment is fairly small for the price.. its not a very pretty city.. very little green space.. expensive... but.. I love it.

4 murders in the Orlando area just YESTERDAY.

The people in Florida need to learn how to drive better because there is so much car wrecks down by Ocala that it makes the army in Star Wars attack of the clones look like an ameba.LOL!

When you've got snowbirds, tourists (foriegn & domestic), and 100's of thousands of immigrants (illegal & otherwise) in the area, expect plenty of wrecks.

I was just going by US stats. of course these change every year. Florida wasn't the worst in 2002.

Well it should be in the top ten now for most violent state.