My OperaCrime Ranking
Monday, November 23, 2009 3:32:54 PM
Over the last couple of years the editor has noticed the absence of DC from the top ten list of, besides "professional" football teams, crime.
So he chased back a couple of links and found an interesting compilation here. If you choose the worst to best list, it gives this pdf. This puts us at 18. Which, while certainly not good, is one heckuva lot better than some previous years.
Of course, it's based on an index developed from the annual FBI numbers, and any index is prone to controversy. For example here, where St. Louis says that their number two is really better than Kansas City's 17 as far as tourism is concerned. Or something. You'd think Saint Louis was a convention town.
Many of the arguments and comments at stltoday.com sound very much like DC's.
So he chased back a couple of links and found an interesting compilation here. If you choose the worst to best list, it gives this pdf. This puts us at 18. Which, while certainly not good, is one heckuva lot better than some previous years.
Of course, it's based on an index developed from the annual FBI numbers, and any index is prone to controversy. For example here, where St. Louis says that their number two is really better than Kansas City's 17 as far as tourism is concerned. Or something. You'd think Saint Louis was a convention town.
Many of the arguments and comments at stltoday.com sound very much like DC's.
