It's just statistics. They can manipulate them any way they want to show whatever results they want.

X3....don't see that either.

Their are very few Mexicans at all in Arab. I'd venture to guess that Arab's population is 99.9% white. I'm not saying that white folks don't commit crime but they had to do some serious manipulation to come up with the numbers to get Arab on the list. Other than a few shoplifting and thieving methheads, not much goes on.

Maybe they used shoplifting crimes in their study? They obviously didn't use violent crimes, which is what most would look at when considering an area "dangerous". Thieves are everywhere and a part of life. I'd much rather deal with a few of those than to worry about walking down the street and being mugged. I wouldn't feel uncomfortable at all walking through any part of Arab after dark, unarmed.

The last, and only, homicide that I can remember in Arab happened to be my uncle, in 2000. He was shot and killed by his son in law at his daughter's tanning business.

I would have figured Montgomery and Selma To be up around 1 and 2.

What, Helena didn't make the list?

For those interested, the crimes and crime rates of Arab. MASH HERE

Helena was actually named the safest city in Alabama

Those stats are based on crimes per 1,000 people. One bad year in a small population area will skew the results pretty sharply. One year we had a mass murder of 6 people in Crenshaw County (some of ya'll may remember that one) it was a bad domestic based murder isolated to two bad apples in a family disagreement. But because of that case it really skewed the crime stats for that year.

Me to, and I live there! I'm not sure what there basing their criteria on.

Maybe the crime there is "undocumented"

The stats were ranked according to Property Crimes instead of Violent crimes. They should have used the word costly instead of dangerous in this study.

This list is laughable,there's more crime committed in a week in Montgomery than monroeville has in a year,I know it's based on population but this survey gives good cities a bad wrap

That's just what this paranoid bunch needs to be reading.

I'll vouch for Talladega. Surprised its not higher.

Many times I've seen compressors,nail guns, miter saws, and cordless tools left out in a house under construction in Arab and it be there the next morning.

The fact that Arab is on the list makes the rest of the list mean nothing to me. When we lived there, the only minorities were Asian doctors. Our doors were never locked.

I would have bet you money that Talladega would be number 1 or 2 on the list.

They can't swim, so they drown?? (somebody will get that eventually)

I work in Anniston...in insurance....not surprised.

Huntsville must have lied about their crime numbers ..