Do Rising Crime Rates Affect Metropolitan Population?
Are crime rates in your area on the rise? Are crimes rates around the country on the rise? The easiest way to answer this is to say it depends on where you live. Many communities across the country have either maintained low crime rates, or even reduced them in recent years. Some of these metropolitan areas include Dayton, OH, Salt Lake City, UT, Denver, CO and Buffalo, NY. In these metropolitan areas, personal and property crime rates are well below national crime rates, and historically have been. On the flip-side are the Metropolitan Areas that are proving to be quite dangerous in which to live. Personal crimes are high, and property crimes, in most instances, are even higher. Areas like Memphis, TN, Miami, FL, Las Vegas, NV, and New Orleans, LA. Some of these areas – Memphis as an example – have property crimes that are more than 3 times the national average. I point out the differences between the lowest and highest metropolitan crime rates across the country for the purpose of in
