Morgan Quitno

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Morgan Quitno Press is a research and publishing company based out of Lawrence, Kansas. They compile books with statistics of crime rates, health care, education, and other categories, ranking cities and states in the United States. Among the major categories are "Smartest State", "Most Dangerous State", "Most Dangerous City", "Most Dangerous Metro Area", "Most Livable State", "Healthiest State", and "Most Improved State"; some information is per capita while some is overall. In July 2007 Morgan Quitno was acquired by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc.

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[edit] Products

  • State Rankings - comprehensive livability of each State. Annual Most Livable State Award is given to #1 State in this ranking.
  • Health Care State Ranking - limited to and more detailed in health care. #1 State is awarded annualHealthiest State Award each year.
  • Crime State Rankings - limited to and more detailed in crime. Best State is awarded annual Safest State Award while worst State is tabbed as Most Dangerous State.
  • City Crime Rankings - city and metro area version of Crime State Rankings mentioned above. Safest City, Safest Metro, Most Dangerous City, Most Dangerous Metro are declared based on the data on this rankings.
  • State Trends - shows trend of each State data. Most Improved State Awardee is decided based on those data.

[edit] America's Safest (Most Dangerous) Cities

[edit] Targeted Cities & Metros

  • Targeted cities - pop. 75,000+
  • Targeted metros - all (no minimum population)

[edit] Targeted Crimes

[edit] Methodology

  1. Calculate crime rate (number of cases per pop. 100,000) of each 6 crimes based on previous year's FBI data.
  2. Compare these rates with U.S. average
  3. Calculate Crime Index based on Morgan Quitno's equation.
  4. Rank cities and metros by their Crime Index.

[edit] Note

  • The FBI recommends against use of its crime statistics for the direct comparison of cities as Morgan Quitno does in its "Most Dangerous Cities" rankings. This is due to the many factors that influence crime in a particular study area such as population density and the degree of urbanization, modes of transportation of highway system, economic conditions, and citizens' attitudes toward crime. [1]
  • In November 2007 the executive board of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) approved a resolution opposing the development of city crime rankings from FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCRs). The resolution states the rankings "These rankings represent an irresponsible misuse of the data and do groundless harm to many communities" and "work against a key goal of our society, which is a better understanding of crime-related issues by both scientists and the public."[2]
  • The U.S. Conference of Mayors has criticized the "Most Dangerous Cities" list, saying the annual city-by-city crime rankings are "distorted and damaging to cities' reputations." [3]
  • In October 2007 The American Society of Criminology, The U.S. Conference of Mayors, and The Federal Bureau of Investigation requested that the publisher reconsider the promotion of the book — specifically, "their inaccurate and inflammatory press release labeling cities as 'safest' and 'most dangerous'" — because the rankings are "baseless and damaging." [4]
  • Cities of Illinois are not included in this ranking, due to unmatch in rape cases between Illinois State police data and FBI data.
  • Other cities may not be included due to lack of some data.
  • Morgan Quitno's "Most Dangerous Cities" ranking has been criticized as a statistical half-truth, since it does not adjust rankings of cities with wide area city limits (Houston, Jacksonville) compared to cities with inner core limits (St. Louis, Atlanta). Houston's city crime statistics, for instance, are diluted by lower crime in affluent areas within its broad city limits, whereas almost all the low crime affluent areas of St. Louis are outside its city limits, which constitute only 12.5% of its metro area. St. Louis would fall far down the dangerous cities list just by annexing adjacent suburbs in this methodology, with no actual change in personal safety. Metro area rankings include all suburbs for all MSAs and therefore have some validity.

[edit] Safest Cities

[edit] Most Dangerous Cities

[edit] Safest and Most Dangerous Metropolitan Areas of 2006

Safest 25 Most Dangerous 25
1 Fond du Lac, WI 1 Detroit-Dearborn, MI M.D.
2 State College, PA 2 Memphis, TN-MS-AR
3 Bangor, ME 3 Los Angeles, CA
4 Eau Claire, WI 4 Las Vegas-Paradise, NV
5 Appleton, WI 5 Florence, SC
6 Sheboygan, WI 6 Myrtle Beach, SC
7 Bismarck, ND 7 Flint, MI
8 La Crosse, WI-MN 8 Stockton, CA
9 Logan, UT-ID 9 Jackson, TN
10 Wausau, WI 10 Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
11 Columbus, IN 11 Miami-Dade County, FL M.D.
12 Oshkosh-Neenah, WI 12 Charlotte-Gastonia, NC-SC
13 Edison, NJ M.D. 13 Hot Springs, AR
14 Harrisonburg, VA 14 Saginaw, MI
15 Rockingham County, NH M.D. 15 Albuquerque, NM
16 Nassau-Suffolk, NY M.D. 16 Little Rock, AR
17 Elizabethtown, KY 17 Yakima, WA
18 Lancaster, PA 18 Tucson, AZ
19 Wheeling, WV-OH 19 Oakland-Fremont, CA M.D.
20 Corvallis, OR 20 Macon, GA
21 Binghamton, NY 21 Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
22 Rochester, MN 22 Houston, TX
23 Portland, ME 23 Modesto, CA
24 Manchester-Nashua, NH 24 Sumter, SC
25 Cambridge-Newton, MA M.D. 25 Alexandria, LA

[edit] Safest and Most Dangerous Cities of 2007

Safest 25 Most Dangerous 25
1 Mission Viejo, CA 1 Detroit, MI
2 Clarkstown, NY 2 St. Louis, MO
3 Brick, NJ 3 Flint, MI
4 Amherst, NY 4 Compton, CA
5 Sugar Land, TX 5 Camden, NJ
6 Colonie, NY 6 Birmingham, AL
7 Thousand Oaks, CA 7 Washington, DC
8 Newton, MA 8 Memphis, TN
9 Toms River, NJ 9 Richmond, CA
10 Lake Forest, CA 10 Cleveland, OH
11 Irvine, CA 11 Orlando, FL
12 Orem, UT 12 Baltimore, MD
13 Round Rock, TX 13 Little Rock, AR
14 Cary, NC 14 Oakland, CA
15 Greece, NY 15 Youngstown, OH
16 Chino Hills, CA 16 Newark, NJ
17 Coral Springs, FL 17 Cincinnati, OH
18 Troy, MI 18 Gary, IN
19 Farmington Hills, MI 19 Dayton, OH
20 Centennial, CO 20 Kansas City, MO
21 Glendale, CA 21 Atlanta, GA
22 Broken Arrow, OK 22 Philadelphia, PA
23 Parma, OH 23 Jackson, MS
24 Sterling Heights, MI 24 Buffalo, NY
25 Simi Valley, CA 25 Kansas City, KS

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