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Wall Street 24/7 published: <br>
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Cities Where Americans Don’t Feel Safe<br>
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Here is number two, because it is closer to home, from a list of
ten:<br>
<p><strong>2. Yakima, Wash.</strong><br>
<strong> > Pct. feel safe at night:</strong> 51.3%<br>
<strong>> Pct. without money for shelter:</strong> 12.5% (tied
for 34th highest)<br>
<strong>> Violent crime rate:</strong> 349.4 per 100,000 (172nd
highest)<br>
<strong>> Poverty rate:</strong> 23.1% (29th highest)<br>
<strong>> Population:</strong> 249,564 (178th lowest)</p>
<p>While Yakima residents often felt unsafe walking home alone at
night, the area’s violent crime rate was actually lower than the
national rate. Property crime, however, remains a problem. Despite
Yakima County’s Crimestoppers grassroots organization, which
encourages citizens to report crimes, the area had 1,217.7
burglaries per 100,000 people in 2012, and 673.2 car thefts per
100,000 people, both among the highest rates in the country. Like
most metro areas in which residents do not feel safe walking alone
at night, Yakima is struggling economically. Nearly one-quarter of
the area’s residents had to rely on food stamps for at least part
of 2012, and 23.1% of residents lived in poverty in 2012 — both
among the worst rates in the country.<br>
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Here is an excerpt from the middle of the article:<br>
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Seven of the 10 metro areas in which residents felt the least safe
had violent crime rates above the nationwide rate of 386.9 incidents
per 100,000 people in 2012. In the Memphis, Tenn., area, there were
1,056.8 violent crimes per 100,000 people, the most of any metro
area in the country. Stockton, Calif., also had one of the highest
violent crime rates in the nation, with 889.3 incidents per 100,000
residents.
<p>But not all metro areas where residents felt unsafe had high
violent crime rates. In two metro areas, McAllen and Yakima,
Wash., there were just 319 and 349 violent incidents,
respectively, for every 100,000 residents in 2012. In both cases,
this was below the national rate.</p>
<p><span style="color:#008000;"><strong><a
href="http://247wallst.com/special-report/2014/04/18/cities-where-americans-dont-feel-safe/2"><span
style="color:#008000;">Click here to see the cities where
Americans don’t feel safe</span></a></strong></span></p>
<p>24/7 Wall St. discussed the issue with John Roman, senior fellow
at the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think-tank based in
Washington, D.C. “A fact of modern life [is] that people are
bombarded with negative stories about crime,” Roman said. People
“develop the perception that where they live, or wherever they
like to go, isn’t safe.”</p>
<p>While concerns about safety may be somewhat misplaced in some
areas, in others, such “perceptions of feeling unsafe are right
on,” Roman added. In those areas, residents may feel unsafe
because crime is underreported. In immigrant communities, because
“people who are victimized are afraid to come forward and report
it, there’s a hidden number of crime,” Roman explained.</p>
<p>However, in bigger cities, like Washington, D.C., New York and
Dallas, “immigrant populations are thriving because they can
do business with the local governments in Spanish. Those cities
that are attracting a lot of first and second generation
immigrants have really much lower crime rates than you’d expect,”
said Roman.<br>
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<p>Here is the URL for the first page: <b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tinyurl.com/mxcxyxv">http://tinyurl.com/mxcxyxv</a>
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Ken<br>
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