Posted: 3/16/2007 8:58:25 PM EDT
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I stumbled onto areaconnect.com and just for the fun of it decided to compare our wonderful bastion of enlightenment and Liberal virtue, Madison, against that dank pit of crime, Washington DC. On the website, there is even a handy bar grapn. It's kind of fun to compare a few cities I've seen. It was sort of interesting how Madison stacked up percentage-wise in the areas of forcible rape, burglary, and larceny theft. And it was even more interesting that they were above the national average in the rape department. Latest 2005 Crimes per 100,000 People: Washington, DC/ Madison, WI/ National Murder: 35.4/ 0.9/ 6.9 Forcible Rape: 29.97 / 36.13 / 32.2 Robbery: 636.1 / 148.6 / 195.4 Agg. Assault: 700.1 / 193.3 / 340.1 Burglary: 648.7 / 654.4 / 814.5 Larceny Theft: 2572.5 / 2566.2 / 2734.7 Vehicle Theft: 1356.4 / 273.7 / 526.5 Actual Reported Population and Crimes: Washington, DC Madison, WI Population: 550,521 / 221,419 Murder: 195 / 2 Forcible Rape: 165 / 80 Robbery: 3502 / 329 Aggravated Assault: 3854 / 428 Burglary: 3571 / 1449 Larceny Theft: 14162 / 5682 Vehicle Theft: 7467 6 / 06 Notes: . * Based on the final 2005 FBI Crime Statistics. * National arson statistics is not available. Therefore, no arson statistics are used in a comparitive manner. * Crime rate results are tabulated using the crime collection area population of each city. * Crime collection population may not match US Census data. Population is based on the agencies participating in the reporting. * 2006 crime stats will be available October 2007 |
