Safest City in North Texas! #2 in All of Texas!!!

[M.D. Holloway]

Now watch, with this distinction we will have a rampage!

Highland Village Named Safest City in North Texas for 9th Consecutive Year

City of Highland Village has been recognized as the Safest City in North Texas for the past eight years. This year Highland Village is once again shown as the Safest City in North Texas, based on information provided by the FBI’s 2009 Uniform Crime Report.


Information on the FBI website confirms Highland Village is once again the Safest City in North Texas with population over 10,000 and less than 100,000. This is the same criterion that has been used to give us the "Safest City" title for the past eight years.


The City of Highland Village Police Department’s Community Oriented Public Safety (COPS) model of policing focuses the entire energy of the department on achieving the service and safety expectations of the community. It is this level of commitment, along with the partnership shared with residents and businesses, which results in this recognition as the Safest City in Texas. The Police Department established programs which proactively address safety and crime prevention; these programs have won numerous state and national awards which further verifies the Safest City recognition.



Attached is a spreadsheet showing all north Texas cities with a population over 10,000 sorted for lowest total crime. Remember, the numbers reflected here are the "rate per 100,000 population" which is the standard for comparing crime rates across the country.

The FBI’s UCR Program is a nationwide, cooperative statistical effort of nearly
18,000 city, university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies voluntarily reporting data on crimes brought to their attention. Since 1930, the FBI has administered the UCR Program and continued to assess and monitor the nature and type of crime in the Nation. The program’s primary objective is to generate reliable information for use in law enforcement administration, operation, and management; however, its data have over the years become one of the country’s leading social indicators. Criminologists, sociologists, legislators, municipal planners, the media, and other students of criminal justice use the data for varied research and planning purposes. In 2009, law enforcement agencies active in the UCR Program represented more than 295 million United States inhabitants—96.3 percent of the total population. The coverage amounted to 97.1 percent of the population in Metropolitan Statistical Areas, 90.9 percent of the population in cities outside metropolitan areas, and 93.0 percent of the population in nonmetropolitan counties.

[onewhippedpuppy]

I thought COP = Citizens On Patrol?

[azasadny]

Do you need any IT folks down there?

[M.D. Holloway]

yup - DFW area is pretty ripe. Lots of opportunity! BTW - our town is 96+% Anglo, 87+% single income families (140+K) and pretty much every one ones a weapon. Just say'n...