City crime ranking sparks debate
New Haven is getting safer, according to University and city data. Yet as the 2011-’12 class year begins, a controversial ranking as the “fourth most dangerous city” has angered New Haven residents, and elicited retaliatory statements from Yale and New Haven officials.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation released its annual Uniform Crime Report on May 23 — which compiles the violent crime statistics reported by municipal police departments over the previous year — setting off a rush of media comparisons and rankings. Many news websites published stories using this data to rank New Haven as the fourth most dangerous city behind Flint, Mich., Detroit, Mich. and St. Louis, Mo.
But City Hall Spokesman Adam Joseph told the News that these websites’ statistical analysis obfuscated the truth about Elm City crime, and Yale administrators are still reaching out to the campus community to correct the perceived inaccuracies. Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins wrote an Aug. 25 email to students condemning the rankings.
“You should be aware that there have been dubious statistical ‘rankings’ circulating about the crime rates in New Haven relative to other cities,” Higgins wrote. “One claim this summer received much play in the media, even though it is not a valid comparison.”
Websites for Business Insider, Michigan’s WNEM-TV, news aggregator Newser, and investor-focused 24/7 Wall Street posted stories on May 23 that used raw totals of “violent crime” — including murders, rapes, robberies, and arsons — from the FBI’s crime report, and then divided that sum by the report’s cited municipal populations, achieving a measure of violent crime per capita, where New Haven placed fourth in the nation.
Despite the negative press from the FBI report, its data actually showed that New Haven had successfully reduced total violent crime by nearly 10 percent in one year — from 2,195 incidents in 2009 to last year’s 1,978. University dated confirms this trend: Yale saw its lowest crime rates in 20 years in 2010, according to Higgins.
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Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins wrote an Aug. 25 email to students condemning the rankings. “You should be aware that there have been dubious statistical 'rankings' circulating about the crime rates in New Haven relative to other cities,”
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