Check out homesurfer.com. The HomeSurfer crime rating for Salisbury, Maryland is 0.0 out of a possible 5 total points. Higher ratings indicate that your area is safer. The HomeSurfer crime rating is calculated depending on how the crime rate in your city compares with crime in the state and the nation. Violent crime is weighed more heavily than property crime, and the national ranking is more important than the state ranking.
Salisbury, Maryland has a violent crime rate of 1869 incidents per 100,000 people. This compares with a rate of 1502 in Maryland and a rate of 596 nationally. Lower numbers are better, indicating that fewer crimes happen per person in the population.
Salisbury, Maryland is in the 100% percentile rank in the state for Violent Crime. It is in the 99% percentile rank nationally. Lower numbers are better. In this case, 100% of cities in Maryland have crime rates equal to or lower than Salisbury, or said another way, 0% of cities in Maryland have crime rates higher than Salisbury.
Maryland cities ranked from worst to best for crime.
Worst
18 Salisbury, MD
17 Baltimore, MD
16 Annapolis, MD
15 Frederick, MD
14 Cumberland, MD
13 Laurel, MD
12 Bel Air, MD
11 Cambridge, MD
10 Easton, MD
9 Greenbelt, MD
8 Elkton, MD
7 Havre de Grace, MD
6 Aberdeen, MD
5 Hagerstown, MD
4 Hyattsville, MD
3 Takoma Park, MD
2 Westminster, MD
1 Ocean Pines, MD
Best
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6 comments:
Yet another source for the TRUTH. Please post these links on the DT story about Tilghman and the one about Gary Comedy.
I hate to say this, but factually, Ocean Pines is not a municipality.
It's a private community. Their HOA fees go toward rent-a-cops and EMS service.
The Pines is also much, much smaller in population than all these other towns mentioned. Comparing a city of hundreds of thousands of people (Baltimore City) with Ocean Pines is like comparing a sandbox with the whole beach.
This doesn't mean Salisbury isn't crime-ridden, but it does take some of the air out of this list. Sorry, Two Sentz.
Dear God this is terrible! Corrupt mayor, corrupt police chief, large transient population due to the large amount of rental property , major drug corridor (route 13) removal of substations and inadequate number of police and funding for them, is it any wonder? We must remove the Barrie Tilghman stink from this city.
According to City-Data.com (had to use them since SPD's website does not provide the number of officers-go figure) SPD has 84 police officers (probably a little lower now) and, based on a 2007 census population of 27,833, that gives us roughly a 3.018:1,000 officer to citizen ratio. The national standard, from what I understand, is in the 2.5:1,000 neighborhood. Larger cities, such as NYC, Miami, Chicago and LA, hover in the 4:1,000 area.
So what does this tell us? It says two things...
1) Since SPD is above the "national standard" with their ratio, but still can't get crime under control, that means that perhaps our police force is not being efficiently utilized. It could also mean that we have insufficient officers caused by many things such as poor/insufficient training, recruiting, structure, sector assignments and/or leadership.
2) Since the "Bigger Cities" have a higher ratio with lower crime rates than Salisbury, perhaps it is time to beef up the SPD force.
Either way you look at it, something is simply not adding up over at the SPD. I can provide at least one improvement-cut out the chit chat! Two police cruisers (usually with two officers in each vehicle, 4 officers total) should never be sitting in a parking lot together. When they carry on their social lives on the clock like this that means that there is at least one route that is not being properly patrolled! I've heard the excuse, "I'm on break," but is the other officer on break too? Probably not, do your job-you signed up for it!
Webster, get it together!
CC, I did not make up the list. Crime is crime. Wether your town is big or small, percentages are percentages. Sorry CC.
But the post is not really about Ocean Pines being at the bottom of the list. It's about Salisbury being at the TOP!
Out of the 84 officers SPD has I bet you atleast 20 of them are brass....what department needs that much brass! Its men sitting on their ends, getting ready for retirement! So Dave C, I think you got it right the first time, SPD doesn't properly utilize the officers they have! #2 problem is they really can't attract decent guys when morale is low and the pay sucks! Think about it....when you go for an interview, doesn't it ever interest you to know why there is an open position? Every single person below the 3rd floor is looking for a new job...if they aren't its because they are getting close to retirement or they are *ss kissers!
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