Saturday, October 20, 2007
Reference: U.S. City Statistics
Reference Question of the Week at herzogbr.com tackles a patron's request for detailed crime stats for Louisville, Kentucky. He explains how he did the search, what resources he checked, and what ultimately gave him the statistics that the patron was seeking. Check it out. Among sources he lists that are generally useful for this kind of search:- CityRating.com, whose crime statistics are quite detailed (if a bit out of date: 2003), listing raw data for murder, forcible rape, arson, aggravated assault, burglary, and so on, and comparisons for each with the national averages
- City-Data.com, whose crime stats for each city list raw data for murders, rapes, assaults, etc., and numbers per 100,000 people, from 1999-2006
- the FBI's Offenses Known to Law Enforcement by State by City (2006), which lists the same crimes as the other two sites, in alphabetical order by town.
Labels: crime statistics, reference, statistics, u.s. cities
