Spotty Crime Data Make It Hard to Judge Safety: Justin Fox

Oct. 18, 2023, 11:30 AM UTC

This summer Gallup made headlines with a poll that asked respondents to say whether or not they considered it “safe to live in or visit” each of 16 large American cities. As others have pointed out, the results didn’t exactly square with the murder statistics. Here’s the Gallup ranking, from safest to least safe, alongside the cities’ homicide rates as calculated from the 2022 violent crime statistics released earlier this year by the Major Cities Chiefs Association.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation released its 2022 US crime statistics this week, but amid a painfully long changeover to a new, more-detailed ...

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