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Fairbanks off the "Most Dangerous Cities" list

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Fairbanks no longer holds the notorious label of fourth most dangerous metropolitan area in the country.

The Kansas publisher that ranks the safest and most crime-ridden cities every year dropped the Golden Heart City from its study due to a population disparity.

"I tried working with someone at the FBI with their numbers," said Scott Morgan, publisher of the reference book "City Crime Rankings." "I remember it was one of the more frustrating conversations I've had."

Morgan's Morgan Quitno Press uses the FBI's annual study, "Uniform Crime Reports," to make its lists. The company publishes the lists in reference books it sells to libraries, universities and large media outlets.

Last year, Fairbanks was considered more dangerous than the Las Vegas, Miami and New Orleans metropolitan areas. Only the Detroit, Memphis, Tenn., and Sumpter, S.C., metropolitan areas fared worse in the rankings.
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We're off the list with an accouting trick! Yay us. I've lived here most of my life and never realized I was in mortal peril all this time.

And just in case you were wondering...
This year's 10 most dangerous metropolitan areas, starting with the worst, according to Morgan Quitno press, are Detroit, New Orleans, Memphis, Tenn., Sumpter, S.C., Miami, Stockton, Calif., Las Vegas, Florence, S.C., Hot Springs, Ark., and Myrtle Beach, S.C.
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Originally posted by: rdubbz420
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Originally posted by: Todd33
Alaska has crime?
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I know... Who knew?
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someone jacked my dogsled man!😛
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Did they melt down your igloo too?

Maybe it was one of these people? (From last night's police blotter)
Hit-and-run

A green Pontiac Grand Prix reportedly struck a train at the Trainor Gate Road and Steese Expressway crossing Tuesday.

The Grand Prix, which was damaged, left the scene, according to Fairbanks police records. The train was undamaged.

Suspicious circumstances

Fairbanks police were called to Denali Way early Wednesday on a report of a woman in a polka-dot dress knocking on doors and asking for money for a sick child. The woman, who was in a white truck, was gone when police arrived, records at the department stated.
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I imagine that Fairbanks' statistical crime problems come from its low population (~30k) plus the presence of Fort Wainwright.
 

It could be that they taken into account of the drinking & driving rate in a 30K population Metropolis instead of violent crimes. I would think that Hyder would be a more a dangerous place than Fairbanks because there are no federal or state law enforcement there.

If I have to live in Alaska I would chooses Anchorage over the Fairbanks freezing hell hole, unless I work for the government.

 
Originally posted by: Vic
I imagine that Fairbanks' statistical crime problems come from its low population (~30k) plus the presence of Fort Wainwright.
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Ding ding ding...

Exactly. On both counts. They caught a real-life "Buffalo Soldiers" thing going on at Wainwright this year where a few soldiers were involved in a fairly sizeable cocaine ring.

Statistically they are right. If you look at our overall numbers they are fairly low. But when you hold them up against our small population they don't look good. I think I remember something about our being on the list (other small towns are not on the list) having to do with us being the #2 city in Alaska. That's how we made the list of "major" cities.
 
Originally posted by: JinLien

It could be that they taken into account of the drinking & driving rate in a 30K population Metropolis instead of violent crimes. I would think that Hyder would be a more a dangerous place than Fairbanks because there are no federal or state law enforcement there.

If I have to live in Alaska I would chooses Anchorage over the Fairbanks freezing hell hole, unless I work for the government.
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It's cold in the winter but it's MUCH nicer in the summer. Anchorage summers suck.
 
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Originally posted by: JinLien

It could be that they taken into account of the drinking & driving rate in a 30K population Metropolis instead of violent crimes. I would think that Hyder would be a more a dangerous place than Fairbanks because there are no federal or state law enforcement there.

If I have to live in Alaska I would chooses Anchorage over the Fairbanks freezing hell hole, unless I work for the government.
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It's cold in the winter but it's MUCH nicer in the summer. Anchorage summers suck.
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Anchorage is very cloudy but much less than Vancouver, and Juneau also is a nicer than Fairbanks & is the second largest city in Alaska.
 
Originally posted by: JinLien
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Originally posted by: JinLien

It could be that they taken into account of the drinking & driving rate in a 30K population Metropolis instead of violent crimes. I would think that Hyder would be a more a dangerous place than Fairbanks because there are no federal or state law enforcement there.

If I have to live in Alaska I would chooses Anchorage over the Fairbanks freezing hell hole, unless I work for the government.
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It's cold in the winter but it's MUCH nicer in the summer. Anchorage summers suck.
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Anchorage is very cloudy but much less than Vancouver, and Juneau also is a nicer than Fairbanks & is the second largest city in Alaska.
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Depends on how you count it. The incorporated area that is legally Fairbanks is fairly small. The overall metro area for Fairbanks is more like 50k. Much bigger than Juneau.

And there is no way that Juneau is nicer than Fbks. It never stops raining there. Fairbanks summers > * 😀
 
Originally posted by: Todd33
What state is Fairbanks in? I've driven through Stockton,CA, don't get off the freeway...
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Yeah, Stockton can be bad...but there are also very nice parts of it as well, you just have to live in the "right" area...

I live in Modesto, and it's similar to Stockton although not as bad, but I'm lucky enough to live in a nice area of town.
 
metro areas, what exactly is a metro area? How are these no name cities the worst crime areas? What am I missing? How did Florence, Sumter and Myrtle Beach end up on this list?
 
Don't forget mainland (fairbanks) summer bugs - gotta love those insects!!! Friend once saw a mosse jump out of the bush into a lake in a desprate attempt to escape being bitten.

 
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
What do most of these cities have in common?
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I guess you could say Fairbanks has a drug problem. But it's kind of like that old joke: I don't have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down... No problem.

Marijuana is the perferred drug of choice up here. I swear there are more pot-heads than drunks in this town. (And that is saying something) It's funny how you don't notice it when you're in the middle of it. A friend of mine came up to visit me a couple of years ago. I took her to dinner. She was having a coke. She looked around the restaurant (a very nice place in Anchorage) and whipered to me: "Everyone in this restaurant is drinking..." She was right. If you looked around everyone had a cocktail glass or wine glass full of something. IIRC we are in the top 5 for alcohol consumption based on sales and the only states that beat us are Nevada (for obvious reasons - tourists drink) and some states that border others with high alcohol taxes where the numbers might not accurately reflect the true acohol consumption of the actual residents.

But we also have our fair share of cocaine and meth. Especially meth. Combine all of that with the negative effects of minimal sunlight for 4 months out of the year and you get some interesting behavior in the winter.
 
Why doesn't it surprise me that SC holds 3 of the top ten spots? Oh ya, tourists from the north, and the residents thinking the civil war is still on...

I lived in Spartanburg for 1.5 years before my dad(thank God) got a better job in Pittsburgh...

I got jumped by white people because I was from the north, and minorities because I was white... the only place I wasn't attacked was at church because they were too busy trying to exorcise me because I skinned my knee and said piss...
 
In Hartford, CT a few years ago a woman patient was playing with a lighter in a nursing home, causing a fire resulting in about twenty deaths. She was charged with a homicide charge for each death, and Hartford lept to the top tiers of the most dangerous cities for that year.

I suspect something similar happened in Fairbanks-it's a small place, and one really big crime could skew things.
 
Man I do not miss Detroit at all, my cousin always had a pair of shoes he would ONLY wear inside his house, not to keep the carpet clean, so he wouldn't get jumped for them, when he left home though, cheapest kmart junk he could find.
 
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