Texas 20 Most Dangerous Cities

[RetNavy]

saw this on my Facebook tonight... was actually posted by a liberal friend

http://www.homesecurityshield.net/news/ ... -in-texas/

my city is #9...

dont know how accurate the data is since the link is through ADT website...

[longtooth]

My closest city is not on it. Huntington, Texas. We have a trafic signal (green, yellow, & red, Left turn arrow.) so that makes it a city.
Lufkin, is #3. Not surprized it is in the top 20 @ all but was surprized at #3.
My Dad lived in Paris til he died in '94 & it was pretty rough then.

[TomV]

Some of those cities don't surprise me at all. Others I never would have considered would be ranked that high.

[mojo84]

Lubbock surprises me.

[oohrah]

figures lie, and liars figure.

[G.A. Heath]

Lubbock surprises me.

Not really a surprise to me, especially since they ripped down the tech ghetto crime has spread out around the city. I will say that Midland or Odessa not even being on the list surprises me, in fact I will go to Lubbock but I avoid Midland/Odessa if at all possible.

[mojo84]

I too was surprised Midland and Odessa wasn't on there. Didn't realize Lubbock had change like that.

[Beiruty]

Austin is on the list, but not Houston?

[cb1000rider]

yea, that seems odd.

[DocV]

Austin is on the list, but not Houston?

Houston is listed as #7. Austin is #12.

[equin]

Woohoo! Lancaster! Been here for over 12 years. Never would've thought little old Lancaster would make such a list, but then again it is just south of Dallas and I heard Bonnie and Clyde did Rob a bank here back in the old days.

[RPBrown]

I cant believe that Hurst made it and Dallas didn't (#21).

[txcharvel]

I'm surprised Waco is not listed higher. When I was growing up there in the 80's I remember that Waco had the highest murder rate per capita in the nation.

[VMI77]

I call hooey. I've lived and worked in a number of those cities that are listed, especially the ones in the Valley. Even if the per 100,000 rates are correct, the conclusion that you have a "1 in 12" chance of being a victim is utter nonsense. In every city crime is concentrated, so if you live in or frequent the high crime areas and are out and about at 3 AM your chance of being a victim will be relatively higher, and if you don't, it will be much much lower. I've never experienced a threatening situation outside of the big cities in Texas...Houston, Dallas/FW, and Dallas isn't even on the list.

Where I live now is not even on the list, but I'm sure I could easily find myself in a dangerous situation if I started roaming the wrong part of town, hanging out at 2 AM, or going to seedy bars. Also, when you look at violent crimes, you see that San Benito has a violent crime rate of 2.83 per 1,0000 and is ranked #14, while Tyler, at 5.4 is ranked #20. The Austin rate is 4.11 per 1,000 and it's ranked #12. Edinburg is ranked #4 and its violent crime rate is only 4.53 per 1,000. It's all demographics and this list grossly oversimplifies reality.

[mojo84]

I call hooey. I've lived and worked in a number of those cities that are listed, especially the ones in the Valley. Even if the per 100,000 rates are correct, the conclusion that you have a "1 in 12" chance of being a victim is utter nonsense. In every city crime is concentrated, so if you live in or frequent the high crime areas and are out and about at 3 AM your chance of being a victim will be relatively higher, and if you don't, it will be much much lower. I've never experienced a threatening situation outside of the big cities in Texas...Houston, Dallas/FW, and Dallas isn't even on the list.

Where I live now is not even on the list, but I'm sure I could easily find myself in a dangerous situation if I started roaming the wrong part of town, hanging out at 2 AM, or going to seedy bars. Also, when you look at violent crimes, you see that San Benito has a violent crime rate of 2.83 per 1,0000 and is ranked #14, while Tyler, at 5.4 is ranked #20. The Austin rate is 4.11 per 1,000 and it's ranked #12. Edinburg is ranked #4 and its violent crime rate is only 4.53 per 1,000. It's all demographics and this list grossly oversimplifies reality.

from the article.

We realize that this topic is inherently controversial in nature and hits close to home. We are aware that there are many different ways to present this data, but when compiling this list we chose to consider not just murder rate, but both violent and property crimes.

I think the property crime is what skews the results.