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Youngstown’s crime rating improves in national study
TweetThe Youngstown metropolitan area’s was the 160th most dangerous area in the country last year, according to a recent national study.
The Youngstown metro area, which includes Mahoning and Trumbull counties in Ohio and Mercer County in Pennsylvania, improved its ranking in the 2009 study by CQ Press, released Sunday. The area was ranked 147th most dangerous in the 2008 study.
The study includes 347 metro areas in the country. The study uses major crime statistics reported by law enforcement agencies to the FBI for murders, rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts.
The report also lists the most dangerous cities with a population of at least 75,000.
Youngstown had traditionally been among the study’s most dangerous cities. But it hasn’t been on the list since Youngstown’s population went below 75,000 in 2007.
For the complete story, read Tuesday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com
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i'm looking at the list for 2010 now, and it says that Independence, Mo., is 160. This is using all of the FBI crime statistics from 2009. In fact, I can't find Youngstown on this list at all. Is there another one I'm not seeing?
os.cqpress.com/citycrime/2010/city_crime_rate_2010-2011_hightolow.pdf
Your link is for cities. Youngstown is not on the list of cities because it has fewer than 75,000 people. The list Vindy is referring to is of metro areas.
aaah, gotcha. all the stories about the rankings have the city statistics as their link. and it depends on if you look from low to high, or high to low. i figured that we had shrunk so much that we were no longer on the list. here's the link to the metro rankings:
http://os.cqpress.com/citycrime/2010/...
lol, the city where my friend goes to law school in a cornfield in the middle of nowhere managed to get #36. must be all those desperate college students who are in debt up to their eyeballs turning to crime. or roaming street gangs of feral cats.
the study uses major crime statistics reported by law enforcement agencies to the FBI for murders, rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts
So thats why Gains pleads down case so they wont be serious enough to get on the list it all makes sense now.