San Jose and Sunnyvale among safest cities San Jose still the safest big city in U.S.For the fifth year in a row, San Jose is the safest large city in the United States. » www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercuryn···331.htmNot bad considering our population is over 904,000 people.
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kudos:1 | Hmm They ought to be the safest in the world for what it costs to live there  | |
|  | | | Re: Hmm All of the bad guys know that the cops there will taser them to death or shoot them down claiming they saw a weapons. I have no problems with the cops doing either. | |
| | | | | Re: Hmm I take issue with that. I don't know if you've followed the news, but the majority of "them" were innocent. | |
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| | | I am glad someone else smells something fishy with the numbers.
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Is San Jose as safe as the numbers say?
The FBI itself is skeptical about these crime rankings. ``These rankings are merely a quick choice made by the data user; they provide no insight into the many variables that mold the crime in a particular town, city, county, state, or region,'' the FBI says on its Web site.
British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once said famously that there are lies, damn lies and statistics. He wouldn't have been duped by San Jose's chest-puffing over being America's safest big city.
Let's start with what constitutes ``big.'' Using numbers collected by the FBI, Morgan Quitno defines big as any city of more than 500,000 people. By that standard, San Jose trounces crime-ridden cities like Detroit or Dallas.
There's just one problem with this: We're not like Detroit or Dallas. At bottom, San Jose is a city of about 100,000 people -- its traditional core -- surrounded by a suburb of 800,000 more. We have more in common with Fremont than Philadelphia.
By that standard -- a comparison with other suburban places -- San Jose doesn't fare so well. If you look at cities with more than 75,000 people -- the threshold in the study -- San Jose is only the 24th safest city in California, behind Fremont, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale.
The FBI statistics show that in Santa Clara County, San Jose has more violent crime per 100,000 people than any city except Mountain View. But you don't see any press releases saying ``Milpitas beats San Jose for safety.''
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Downtown SJ in the evenings is another story 