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City Crime Rankings 2015

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408 pages | CQ Press
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Using the latest FBI crime statistics, City Crime Rankings 2015 provides easy-to-understand crime comparisons for cities and metropolitan areas throughout the United States. Numbers, rates, and trends for total crime, violent crime, murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, property crime, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft are presented in both alphabetical and rank order for all metro areas and cities of 75,000 or more. Numbers and rates of police in cities are also included. A revised introduction gives a summary of and notes about the data, as well as the methodology behind the overall rankings allowing researchers to cite statistics with context.

City Crime Rankings offers thorough and accurate statistics for more than 380 metropolitan areas and nearly 450 cities, featuring:

  • Methodology
  • Distribution Analysis
  • Notes Regarding City and Metro Crime Data
  • 2014 Metropolitan Crime Rate Rankings
  • 2014 City Crime Rate Rankings
  • Metropolitan Area and City Crime Statistics
  • Metropolitan and City Populations
 
Detailed Table of Contents
 
Introduction
Methodology

 
Distribution Analysis

 
Notes Regarding City and Metro Crime Data

 
 
2014 Metropolitan Crime Rate Rankings
 
2014 City Crime Rate Rankings
 
Subject Rankings
Metropolitan Area Crime Statistics

 
City Crime Statistics

 
Metropolitan and City Populations

 
 
Appendix
Descriptions of Metropolitan Areas in 2013

 
County Index: 2013

 
National Crime Trends: 1994 to 2013

 
National, Metropolitan and City Crime Statistics Summary: 2013

 

Kathleen O'Leary Morgan

Kathleen O’Leary Morgan holds a master’s degree in public administration and has served in a number of media and legislative liaison positions with the U.S. Department of Transportation, where she was also deputy director of congressional affairs. More About Author

Scott Morgan

Scott Morgan is an attorney who served as chief counsel to Senator Bob Dole’s 1988 presidential campaign. More About Author

Rachel Boba Santos

Rachel Boba Santos is a professor at Radford University in the Department of Criminal Justice. She works with police departments and crime analysts. She conducts experimental and applied research on place-based and offender-based police crime reduction strategies, stratified policing, crime analysis, community engagement, and police use of force.Dr. Santos' interests include conducting practice-based research which is implementing and evaluating evidence-based practices in the “real world” of criminal justice. In particular, she seeks to improve crime prevention and crime reduction efforts by police in areas such as crime analysis, problem... More About Author