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I’ve never heard Indianapolis referred to as having a low crime rate. Is there a specific type of crime you are referencing?

warent 8y ago
I guess it's all relative. It has a high crime rate when compared to someplace like Boise, Idaho, sure. But for a city that has well over a million people, I can walk around in the middle of the night downtown feeling quite safe, which is definitely not the case in, for example, San Fransisco (Market St. is PACKED with dealers and tweakers). Of course there are some places that are sketchy in Indy, but that's true anywhere and it's easy to avoid. It's rare enough to hear about a shooting or robbery here, but there's a lot of cities where it's a regular occurrence.
- ryanwaggoner 8y ago
  Statistics don’t tell the whole story, but Indianapolis is pretty consistently ranked as one of the top 20 most high-crime cities in the nation.
  - warent 8y ago
    That's fair, my experience is just anecdotal. According to the locals it has improved significantly in just the last couple of years. However, that may possibly be just due to gentrification. The crime rate is probably averaged across the huge surface area of the city, whereas my range is fairly confined to the inner portion.
  - paulcole 8y ago
    Care to share one of those rankings? I looked at quite a few and couldn’t find any ranking Indianapolis in the top 20.
    - moorhosj 8y ago
      ==The website SafeWise recently found Indianapolis to be the 10th most dangerous city in the United States based on 2016 FBI crime statistics and population data.== https://fox59.com/2018/08/14/100-homicides-put-indy-ahead-of-2017s-record-pace/ https://fox59.com/2018/08/14/100-homicides-put-indy-ahead-of...
- moorhosj 8y ago
  Not sure where you are getting your information, but it isn't so cut-and-dry. 2017 had a record number of homicides in Indianapolis and 2018 hasn't been better. That said, most other types of crime are down. From October [1] ==The FBI reported that crime dropped 10 percent from 2016 to 2017 in Indianapolis and robbery was off by more than 12 percent. IMPD statistics show robberies are down another 17 percent so far this year and burglaries are off 20 percent from last year. But killings and aggravated assaults, often with guns, are up.== [1] https://cbs4indy.com/2018/10/01/overall-crime-down-as-murder-rate-increases-in-indianapolis/ https://cbs4indy.com/2018/10/01/overall-crime-down-as-murder...

warent 8y ago

I guess it's all relative. It has a high crime rate when compared to someplace like Boise, Idaho, sure. But for a city that has well over a million people, I can walk around in the middle of the night downtown feeling quite safe, which is definitely not the case in, for example, San Fransisco (Market St. is PACKED with dealers and tweakers). Of course there are some places that are sketchy in Indy, but that's true anywhere and it's easy to avoid. It's rare enough to hear about a shooting or robbery here, but there's a lot of cities where it's a regular occurrence.

ryanwaggoner 8y ago
Statistics don’t tell the whole story, but Indianapolis is pretty consistently ranked as one of the top 20 most high-crime cities in the nation.
- warent 8y ago
  That's fair, my experience is just anecdotal. According to the locals it has improved significantly in just the last couple of years. However, that may possibly be just due to gentrification. The crime rate is probably averaged across the huge surface area of the city, whereas my range is fairly confined to the inner portion.
- paulcole 8y ago
  Care to share one of those rankings? I looked at quite a few and couldn’t find any ranking Indianapolis in the top 20.
  - moorhosj 8y ago
    ==The website SafeWise recently found Indianapolis to be the 10th most dangerous city in the United States based on 2016 FBI crime statistics and population data.== https://fox59.com/2018/08/14/100-homicides-put-indy-ahead-of-2017s-record-pace/ https://fox59.com/2018/08/14/100-homicides-put-indy-ahead-of...
moorhosj 8y ago
Not sure where you are getting your information, but it isn't so cut-and-dry. 2017 had a record number of homicides in Indianapolis and 2018 hasn't been better. That said, most other types of crime are down. From October [1] ==The FBI reported that crime dropped 10 percent from 2016 to 2017 in Indianapolis and robbery was off by more than 12 percent. IMPD statistics show robberies are down another 17 percent so far this year and burglaries are off 20 percent from last year. But killings and aggravated assaults, often with guns, are up.== [1] https://cbs4indy.com/2018/10/01/overall-crime-down-as-murder-rate-increases-in-indianapolis/ https://cbs4indy.com/2018/10/01/overall-crime-down-as-murder...