Crime Wave Hits Stamford . . . (not really)
Sure it’s easy to string a couple of headlines;
Pair steals man’s pants at gunpoint on Stamford’s South End
Man beaten, robbed and thrown over a fence in downtown Stamford
and extrapolate that crime as one commenter here likes to say “is out of control.” But the reality is that crime incidents do not constitute an assessment on the trend without looking at the long range and the recent history. For that the uniform FBI statistics say what they’ve said all along, Norwalk and Stamford are low crime areas to live. But all is not equal. Connecticut magazine once again did a rate the towns survey and behold the town of Fairfield beat out Greenwich as the most desirable place to live. And how did Fairfield ran? From the Stamford Advocate:
Municipalities were rated in five categories, with 1 as the best score and 17 being the worst. Fairfield rated a 1 in education, 2 for crime and economy, 15 for cost and 4 for leisure.
After Greenwich, West Hartford is ranked third in the survey, Stamford took fourth, Milford was fifth and Danbury came in sixth. Norwalk was ranked ninth, while Bridgeport tied with Meriden for sixteenth — last place.
What’s interesting about the Norwalk ranking is that so many people decry Stamford as a town they don’t want Norwalk to become. Get we demand better? Is it really satisfying to rank 9th out of 16th these days? Fairfield has a 85.2% election voter turn out rate. is Norwalk really content with its less than 45% turnout? According to the Advocate, Greenwich ranked second after Fairfield,then West Hartford , Stamford cam in fourth fourth, Milford cam in fifth and even Danbury came in ahead of Norwalk at sixth. Danbury?
It wasn’t so in 2006, when the last time the rankings came out. Stamford, for all it’s big city and higher crime incidences ranks lower in crime than Norwalk in a magazine reader survey. Interpret as you wish, but here’s Norwalk’s score in context then:
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