California’s Most Dangerous Cities

California’s Most Dangerous Cities

California is a dangerous place to live.  If you live in L.A. or San Fran or Oakland, you are living in a war zone.  Worse the police in those town are not allowed to protect the citizens, they must protect criminals and crooks from foreign countries that sneak into the U.S.  Those cities do not go after gangs, drug dealers or sex traffickers—those folks are protected by the cops under orders from the politicians.  You go to those cities only if you are fully protected—or a risk taker.

“According to a January 2021 report by Roadsnacks.net, California’s crime numbers have also catapulted the state into the top 20 most dangerous states in America; and sadly, the state is home to nine-—yes, nine—of the most dangerous cities in the country.

To compile the list, Roadsnacks.net says they looked at FBI data for violent crimes and property crimes in California cities with a population of 5,000, which totaled 415 cities. “We discovered that the cities that made our list have robberies happening in broad daylight, carjackings, and daily shootings,” they said. “There are neighborhoods in these cities that you shouldn’t drive through, ever, and there are areas that you definitely shouldn’t be in after dark.”

This is why families are fleeing these cities and the State.  On the other hand, Californians every month are breaking records on the number of guns purchased.  Since government refuses to protect the, they will protect themselves.

California’s Most Dangerous Cities

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Crime has increased in the Golden State since Prop. 47 in 2014 and Prop. 57 in 2016

By Katy Grimes, California Globe,   6/21/21   

Violent crimes and property crime in California is above the national average and continues to climb according to the FBI. Few California cities have been spared the ongoing impacts of rising crime.

Most interesting is the FBI graph below showing how crime in California had dropped, then began to rise again after 2014 – the year Proposition 47 was passed, and then Proposition 57 in 2016.

Proposition 47 largely decriminalized theft and drug crimes by reducing those crimes and a number of other “non-violent” felonies to misdemeanors; Prop. 57 allows early release for “non-violent offenders,” including rape by intoxication of an unconscious person, human trafficking involving a sex act with minors, arson causing great bodily harm, drive-by shooting, assault with a deadly weapon, and hostage taking.

The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. The data are collected via the Summary Reporting System (SRS). For agencies reporting via the National Incident-Based Reporting System, the submissions are converted to SRS data to be consistent for this presentation. Violent crime includes the offenses of murder and non-negligent manslaughter, rape (revised definition), robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crime includes the offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft.

Curiously, the FBI reports that in 2019, California did not contribute to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) data collection. The FBI reports, “in 2019, the FBI estimated crime statistics for the nation are based on data received from 738 of 743 law enforcement agencies in the country that year.”

According to a January 2021 report by Roadsnacks.net, California’s crime numbers have also catapulted the state into the top 20 most dangerous states in America; and sadly, the state is home to nine-—yes, nine—of the most dangerous cities in the country.

To compile the list, Roadsnacks.net says they looked at FBI data for violent crimes and property crimes in California cities with a population of 5,000, which totaled 415 cities. “We discovered that the cities that made our list have robberies happening in broad daylight, carjackings, and daily shootings,” they said. “There are neighborhoods in these cities that you shouldn’t drive through, ever, and there are areas that you definitely shouldn’t be in after dark.”

Roadsnacks.net listed The Most Dangerous Cities In California For 2021, and explained why:

  1. Emeryville – the most property crimes in the state.
  2. Oakland– an overall crime rate 150% higher than the national average, a murder happening every five days on average.
  3. Commerce – Over the course of a year, any given resident has a 1 in 12 chance of being the victim of a property crime, the second highest rate in California.
  4. Red Bluff experienced a shocking rate of violent crime in 2019.
  5. Signal Hill – surrounded entirely by Long Beach, Roadsnacks.net says Signal Hill comes in as the fifth most dangerous place to call home in California.
  6. San Bernardino – With 46 murders in 2019, San Bernardino had the third highest murder rate in the state for 2019.
  7. West Hollywood – West Hollywood’s property crime rate is the ninth highest in the state, and rape cases are the 39th highest.
  8. Stockton had the third highest violent crime rate in California, with 34 murders, 181 rapes, and 3,007 aggravated assaults.
  9. Marysville Marysville actually had about twice as many car thefts per capita as Stockton.
  10. Barstow – Burglary is especially prevalent in Barstow and ranks as the fourth highest rate in California. Barstow’s violent crime rate as a whole is also in the top ten statewide.

Gold Country Media reviewed the FBI data and reported that the statistics reveal Placer County communities are among the safest in state.

Gold Country Media reported in the Capitol region, “While Elk Grove follows Folsom’s lead with a strong 125, the city of Sacramento comes in at a dismal 383. That’s among the top 40 worst crime cities. Just across the river in West Sacramento, crime is slightly lighter than the Capital at number 347.”

Roadsnacks.net reported:

Sacramento is #33 out of 415:

  • Population: 513,934
  • Violent Crime Per Capita: 627
  • Property Crime Per Capita: 3,182

The nearby town of Woodland ranked #105 out of 415.

  • Population: 61,176
  • Violent Crime Per Capita: 366
  • Property Crime Per Capita: 2,432

San Luis Obispo ranked #52 out of 415

  • Population: 47,735
  • Violent Crime Per Capita: 402
  • Property Crime Per Capita: 3,640

Escondido ranked #223 out of 415

  • Population: 153,215
  • Violent Crime Per Capita: 349
  • Property Crime Per Capita: 1,548

Chino Hills ranked #373 out of 415

  • Population: 84,577
  • Violent Crime Per Capita: 112
  • Property Crime Per Capita: 1,053

Roseville: #227 out of 415

  • Population: 141,744
  • Violent Crime Per Capita: 182
  • Property Crime Per Capita: 2,225

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