Areaconnect.com

[wolverine]

Has anyone ever seen this site? Not sure how accurate it is, but it's interesting to see how a city compares to other cities per 100,000 people. I compared Detroit to Saginaw here:

http://saginaw.areaconnect.com/crime/compa...troit&s2=MI

[RustTown]

I can't get over how high Lansing's forcible rapes rates are (though, many take issue with the word as all rapes are forcible many argue). It's something like nearly 14 percentage points higher than Detroit. I've never been able to figure out why it's so high.

[ZachariahDaMan]

That's the first time I've been to that site. It's very interesting comparing various cities. Thanks for the link.

[BarGal]

I can't get over how high Lansing's forcible rapes rates are (though, many take issue with the word as all rapes are forcible many argue)....

I think by using the word forcible, they're trying to distinguish against statutory.

[RustTown]

Yeah, I realize that. I just didn't want to offend anyone by putting that disclaimer.

[Ark]

I didn't realize my small city of 30k was such a beacon for theft. I guess it shouldn't be a big surprise... my mother had a huge front yard turtle statue that weighed a ton... somehow it go stolen (hopefully whoever took it had back problems for a while)... not to mention the car my father got stolen five years ago (belonged to my grandfather before he died). This site says my city has low amounts of auto theft... I thought we had excessive amounts of it - maybe other sites put theft & auto theft as the same statistics?

On the brighter side: all other crime rates are down and there's been no murders in the past year.