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Public Safety Committee Report

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Rather than publish the entire 200+ page report prepared and presented by our Public Safety Committee, the following links will serve as source data for this report.  A simple reading of the various sites will allow the public to make up their own minds as to how severe the crime problem in our community is.

Source Data for GGGG Public Safety Committee Report

Click on any link below to review committee's source data

http://www.morganquitno.com/cit07pop.htm#25

http://www.morganquitno.com/cit06pop.htm

(see Hot Springs at bottom of pages above)

www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/table_08_ar.html

(2006 FBI just out - divide crimes by population. Hot Springs has highest property crime rate for any city over 30,000 - see chart)

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/table_10_ar.html

(Note Garland County property crimes is total - not per capita)

http://hotsprings.areaconnect.com/crime/compare.htm

(type in Hot Springs and compare to New York or any city)

http://www.disastercenter.com/MSA/Hot_SpringsARMSA.html

(click on State Statistics at bottom to compare to the state)

http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/crimecity.asp

(type in Arkansas at bottom, click Submit for Arkansas cities)

http://www.bestplaces.net/crime/?city1=50533400&city2=50523290

(compare Hot Springs to Benton, Bryant, Rogers, etc.)

http://www.cityrating.com/crimestatistics.asp

(click on Hot Springs to compare to national average, other cities)

http://www.greatschools.net/city/hot_springs/ar

(look at violent crime index near bottom left of page)

http://www.city-data.com/city/Hot-Springs-Arkansas.html

(scroll down to crime in Hot Springs per year, see graph below)

http://www.acic.org/statistics/stats.htm

(select Section 3 (part 2) Crime Index, scroll to Garland County, compare crime rates per 100,000 in final column)

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/encs.pdf

(Above publication compares reporting methods)

http://www.cqpress.com/docs/

(CQ Press response to critics on City Crime Rankings)

 

Other Resources:

www.fbi.gov

Federal Bureau of Investigation

www.jrsa.org

Justice Research and Statistics Association

www.search.org/nibrs

National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics

www.wkap.nl/issuetoc.htm/0748-4518+15+2+1999

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

 

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