Baltimore ranked 12th-most dangerous
CQ Press considers cities of at least 75,000 residents if city officials have reported crime data to the FBI. Overall, 378 cities were taken into account in the review.
Detroit, with a calculated population of 884,462, received the title of the most dangerous city with an overall score of 407.15. Detroit also ranks at the top of the "Most Dangerous Metro Area " list. Communities beyond city limits, such as suburbs and surrounding districts, are considered in this separate ranking. Baltimore, paired with Towson, ranks at 31 with a combined population of 2,662,948 residents.
Because CQ Press did not publish the data last year, comparisons of national averages from the last two years were unable to be obtained. Along with population changes, seven additional cities were included in this year's rankings bringing the total to 378 cities.
Student responses seem to correlate with the city's ranking.
Gilberto Torrijos, a senior Molecular and Cellular Biology major, said, "I got robbed. I left my bike on my porch for a minute, and when I came out, the bike was gone. I later found it in the hands of two guys on Greenmount Avenue."
Torrijos lives eight blocks from the Homewood campus.
Other thefts have occurred this semester. Wan-hsin Chen, a junior public health student, said her car was broken into earlier this year.
"It was parked on 39th Street. It is generally thought that going further north ensures more security, but it didn't seem to be the case. Although nothing was stolen, my driver's side window was completely gone," she said.
Junior applied math major, Cheryl Kuan, told a similar story. Thieves broke into her car earlier this semester while it was parked near Homewood Apartments.
Over the last two years, the University has taken increased measures to ensure the student body is safe and secure. Skrodzki detailed the new implementations employed by the University.
"We opened a state-of-the art Communication Center which is operational 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This serves as a hub for dispatching calls and monitoring 128 cameras strategically placed on and off campus. This has increased from 32 cameras in 2005 to the current level of 128 that are equipped with behavior recognition software which alerts operators to any suspicious or unusual activity in the cameras view," Skrodzki said.
Detroit, with a calculated population of 884,462, received the title of the most dangerous city with an overall score of 407.15. Detroit also ranks at the top of the "Most Dangerous Metro Area " list. Communities beyond city limits, such as suburbs and surrounding districts, are considered in this separate ranking. Baltimore, paired with Towson, ranks at 31 with a combined population of 2,662,948 residents.
Because CQ Press did not publish the data last year, comparisons of national averages from the last two years were unable to be obtained. Along with population changes, seven additional cities were included in this year's rankings bringing the total to 378 cities.
Student responses seem to correlate with the city's ranking.
Gilberto Torrijos, a senior Molecular and Cellular Biology major, said, "I got robbed. I left my bike on my porch for a minute, and when I came out, the bike was gone. I later found it in the hands of two guys on Greenmount Avenue."
Torrijos lives eight blocks from the Homewood campus.
Other thefts have occurred this semester. Wan-hsin Chen, a junior public health student, said her car was broken into earlier this year.
"It was parked on 39th Street. It is generally thought that going further north ensures more security, but it didn't seem to be the case. Although nothing was stolen, my driver's side window was completely gone," she said.
Junior applied math major, Cheryl Kuan, told a similar story. Thieves broke into her car earlier this semester while it was parked near Homewood Apartments.
Over the last two years, the University has taken increased measures to ensure the student body is safe and secure. Skrodzki detailed the new implementations employed by the University.
"We opened a state-of-the art Communication Center which is operational 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This serves as a hub for dispatching calls and monitoring 128 cameras strategically placed on and off campus. This has increased from 32 cameras in 2005 to the current level of 128 that are equipped with behavior recognition software which alerts operators to any suspicious or unusual activity in the cameras view," Skrodzki said.
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