Over-the-Rhine Most Dangerous Neighborhood in U.S.

A website which provides crime data for insurance companies says the Over-the-Rhine area is the most dangerous neighborhood in the United States.

NeighborhoodScout.com says it used proprietary computer models to estimate incidences of violent crimes, including murder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape, armed robbery and aggravated assault, for every sub-zip code neighborhood in the U.S. The crime statistics come from local law enforcement agencies and the F.B.I. for the years 2005-2007.

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The next four most dangerous neighborhoods, according to Neighborhoodscout.com, are found in Chicago, Miami, Jacksonville, FL, and Baltimore, Maryland.

[Editor’s Note: Statistics for the 100 safest and 100 most dangerous cities are available can be read here. Scroll down the page.]

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The crime rates we have developed are based on data and crime statistics from the FBI and the U.S. Justice Department. We gather data from all 17,000 local law enforcement agencies in the United States, and use a relational database to associate crime incidences from all of these law enforcement agencies to the specific local communities the agency covers, and hence in which community the crimes have occurred. We then researched and developed mathematical algorithms to statistically estimate the incidences of both violent and property crimes for each neighborhood in America. {snip}

About the Crime Data

The data used from these 17,000 local law enforcement agencies are the FBI defined “crime index” crimes. Index crimes are the eight crimes the FBI combines to produce its annual crime index.

The index seeks to overcome differences in individual state statues–that would ignore how the individual is charged–and create a standardized definition of crime classification. This was done through defining serious and non-serious offenses. {snip}

These offenses include willful homicide, forcible rape, robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, larceny over $50, motor vehicle theft, and arson. In order to compare statistical information on a national basis the FBI came up with a common definition for crime comparison.

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