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Maryland tops Texas in violent crime rate, has nation's 3rd highest murder rate
[SNIP] "In the year 2000 Maryland had an estimated population of 5,296,486 which ranked the state 19th in population. For that year the State of Maryland had a total Crime Index of 4,816.1 reported incidents per 100,000 people. This ranked the state as having the 12th highest total Crime Index. For Violent Crime Maryland had a reported incident rate of 786.6 per 100,000 people. This ranked the state as having the **3rd highest occurrence for Violent Crime among the states.** For crimes against Property, the state had a reported incident rate of 4,029.5 per 100,000 people, which ranked as the state 17th highest. Also in the year 2000 Maryland had 8.1 Murders per 100,000 people, ranking the state as having the ***3rd highest rate for Murder***." http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/txcrime.htm But according to Harry Krautz Maryland is a much better place to live than lowly ol' Texas. |
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