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These statistics are fundamentally untrustworthy. Nobody reports crimes if they know that the police and the DA don't care.



Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter is a pretty reliable metric, since police get called and they actually have to show up when there's a dead body.

Seattle ranks 77th when you sort by that column!




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