LA’s Crime Report Card: Let’s Just Beat Up San Diego And Take Their Score
The new FBI Uniform Crime Report shows that among large metro areas, greater LA is second only to Detroit in murder rate per 100,000. For overall violent crime, the LA area is still at the bottom of the class, behind only Miami-Ft Lauderdale and Houston.
San Diego has half LA’s murder rate.
Two large areas — Chicago (3d largest) and Philadelphia (4th) — were not listed.
| Metro Area | population | violent crime rate per 100,000 |
murder rate per 100,000 |
| New York Metro | 18.7m | 459 | 5.0 |
| Los Angeles | 13.0m | 654 | 8.6 |
| Chicago | NR | NR | |
| Philadelphia | NR | NR | |
| Dallas-Ft Worth | 5.7m | 555 | 7.3 |
| Miami-Ft Lauderdale | 5.4m | 812 | 6.8 |
| Houston | 5.2m | 724 | 8.0 |
| Washington DC | 5.1m | 446 | 7.9 |
| Atlanta | 4.7m | 522 | 8.1 |
| Detroit | 4.5m | 612 | 10.0 |
| Boston | 4.4m | 400 | 2.6 |
| SF-Oakland | 4.2m | 513 | 7.3 |
| Riverside-SB | 3.7m | 499 | 7.0 |
| Phoenix | 3.7m | 493 | 8.0 |
| Minneapolis-St Paul | 3.1m | 339 | 3.0 |
| San Diego | 3.0m | 468 | 4.3 |
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October 19th, 2005 at 8:02 am
And yet San Diego’s real estate market is flat compared to that of Los Angeles. If you look at these two markets, it appears that being being killed is good for the real estate market. Perhaps its because houses of victims are put on the market that wouldn’t otherwise we sold? Perhaps because ‘murder for gain’ gives killers new found wealth which they are plowing into real estate?