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'Morgan Quitno Press' is an independent research and publishing company based out of Lawrence, Kansas. They compile books with statistics of crime rates, health care, education, and other categories, ranking cities and states in the United States. Among the major categories are "Smartest State", "Most Dangerous State", "Most Dangerous City", "Most Dangerous Metro Area", "Most Livable State", "Healthiest State", and "Most Improved State"; some information is per capita while some is overall.

Contents

Products

America's Safest (Most Dangerous) Cities

Targeted Cities & Metros

Targeted Crimes

Methodology

Note

Safest Cities

Most Dangerous Cities

Safest and Most Dangerous Metropolitan Areas of 2006

Safest and Most Dangerous Cities of 2006

See also

External links

Products

★ State Rankings - comprehensive livability of each State. Annual ''Most Livable State'' Award is given to #1 State in this ranking.

★ Health Care State Ranking - limited to and more detailed in health care. #1 State is awarded annual''Healthiest State'' Award each year.

★ Crime State Rankings - limited to and more detailed in crime. Best State is awarded annual ''Safest State'' Award while worst State is tabbed as ''Most Dangerous State''.

★ City Crime Rankings - city and metro area version of Crime State Rankings mentioned above. ''Safest City'', ''Safest Metro'', ''Most Dangerous City'', ''Most Dangerous Metro'' are declared based on the data on this rankings.

★ State Trends - shows trend of each State data. ''Most Improved State'' Awardee is decided based on those data.

America's Safest (Most Dangerous) Cities

Targeted Cities & Metros

★ Targeted cities - pop. 75,000+

★ Targeted metros - all (no minimum population)

Targeted Crimes

★ murder

★ rape

★ robbery

★ assault

★ burglary

★ automobile theft

Methodology

#Calculate crime rate (number of cases per pop. 100,000) of each 6 crimes based on previous year's FBI data.
#Compare these rates with U.S. average
#Calculate 'Crime Index' based on Morgan Quitno's equation. All 6 crimes are weighed equally.
#Rank cities and metros by their Crime Index.

Note

★ Cities of Illinois are not included in this ranking, due to unmatch in rape cases between Illinois State police data and FBI data. Chicago would be #52 in "Most Dangerous" rankings if calculated on 5 crimes except rape.

★ Other cities may not be included due to lack of some data.

★ Morgan Quitno's "Most Dangerous Cities" ranking has been criticized as a statistical half-truth, since it does not adjust rankings of cities with wide area city limits (Houston, Jacksonville) compared to cities with inner core limits (St. Louis, Atlanta). Houston's city crime statistics, for instance, are diluted by lower crime in affluent areas within its broad city limits, whereas almost all the low crime affluent areas of St. Louis are outside its city limits, which constitute only 12.5% of its metro area.

★ The FBI recommends against use of its crime statistics for the direct comparison of cities as Morgan Quitno does in its "Most Dangerous Cities" rankings. This is due to the many variables that influence crime in a particular study area such as population density and the degree of urbanization, modes of transportation of highway system, economic conditions, and citizens' attitudes toward crime. [1]

Safest Cities

★ Huntington Beach, California - 1994

★ Irvine, California - 1995

★ Amherst, New York - 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003

★ Newton, Massachusetts - 1999, 2004, 2005

★ Brick, New Jersey - 2006

Most Dangerous Cities

★ Atlanta, Georgia - 1994, 1995

★ Newark, New Jersey - 1996, 1997

★ Gary, Indiana - 1998, 1999

★ Detroit, Michigan - 2000, 2001, 2003

★ Camden, New Jersey - 2004, 2005

★ St. Louis, Missouri - 2002, 2006

Safest and Most Dangerous Metropolitan Areas of 2006

''Safest 25''		''Most Dangerous 25''
1	Fond du Lac, WI	1	Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, MI M.D.
2	State College, PA	2	Memphis, TN-MS-AR
3	Bangor, ME	3	Pine Bluff, AR
4	Eau Claire, WI	4	Las Vegas-Paradise, NV
5	Appleton, WI	5	Florence, SC
6	Sheboygan, WI	6	Myrtle Beach, SC
7	Bismarck, ND	7	Flint, MI
8	La Crosse, WI-MN	8	Stockton, CA
9	Logan, UT-ID	9	Jackson, TN
10	Wausau, WI	10	Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
11	Columbus, IN	11	Miami-Dade County, FL M.D.
12	Oshkosh-Neenah, WI	12	Charlotte-Gastonia, NC-SC
13	Edison, NJ M.D.	13	Hot Springs, AR
14	Harrisonburg, VA	14	Saginaw, MI
15	Rockingham County, NH M.D.	15	Albuquerque, NM
16	Nassau-Suffolk, NY M.D.	16	Little Rock, AR
17	Elizabethtown, KY	17	Yakima, WA
18	Lancaster, PA	18	Tucson, AZ
19	Wheeling, WV-OH	19	Oakland-Fremont, CA M.D.
20	Corvallis, OR	20	Macon, GA
21	Binghamton, NY	21	Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
22	Rochester, MN	22	Houston, TX
23	Portland, ME	23	Modesto, CA
24	Manchester-Nashua, NH	24	Sumter, SC
25	Cambridge-Newton, MA M.D.	25	Alexandria, LA

Safest and Most Dangerous Cities of 2006

''Safest 25''		''Most Dangerous 25''
1	Brick Township, NJ	1	St. Louis, MO
2	Amherst, NY	2	Detroit, MI
3	Mission Viejo, CA	3	Flint, MI
4	Newton, MA	4	Camden, NJ
5	Troy, MI	5	Compton, CA
6	Colonie, NY	6	Birmingham, AL
7	Irvine, CA	7	Cleveland, OH
8	Cary, NC	8	Oakland, CA
9	Greece, NY	9	Youngstown, OH
10	Coral Springs, FL	10	Gary, IN
11	Thousand Oaks, CA	11	Richmond, CA
12	Orem, UT	12	Richmond, VA
13	Round Rock, TX	13	Kansas City, MO
14	Toms River, NJ	14	Trenton, NJ
15	Lake Forest, CA	15	Baltimore, MD
16	Sterling Heights, MI	16	Newark, NJ
17	Simi Valley, CA	17	Atlanta, GA
18	Roswell, GA	18	Cincinnati, OH
19	Lee's Summit, MO	19	Washington, DC
20	Broken Arrow, OK	20	North Charleston, SC
21	Chino Hills, CA	21	Reading, PA
22	Gilbert, AZ	22	Memphis, TN
23	Edison Township, NJ	23	Little Rock, AR
24	Cranston, RI	24	San Bernardino, CA
25	Port St. Lucie, FL	25	Orlando, FL

See also

★ United States cities by crime rate

External links

★ Morgan Quitno

★ America's Safest (And Most Dangerous) Cities, 2006 report