# The Crime rate challenge: Beat my hometown of Harvey, IL **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 8, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crime-rate-challenge-beat-my-hometown-of-harvey-il/559913 "2010-11-08T16:06:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crime-rate-challenge-beat-my-hometown-of-harvey-il/559913/21 "2010-11-09T00:36:34Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > [My little Tennessee town](http://www.clrsearch.com/Harvey_Demographics/IL/Crime_Statistics?compare=37149). See why I don’t lock my doors? > > StG Your town looks scary as hell compared to [mine.](http://www.clrsearch.com/Harvey_Demographics/IL/Crime_Statistics?compare=01721) We may as well not even have doors. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crime-rate-challenge-beat-my-hometown-of-harvey-il/559913/22 "2010-11-09T00:45:06Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > Your town looks scary as hell compared to [mine.](http://www.clrsearch.com/Harvey_Demographics/IL/Crime_Statistics?compare=01721) We may as well not even have doors. Jesus Christ, there’s a _real_ Smurf Village? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crime-rate-challenge-beat-my-hometown-of-harvey-il/559913/23 "2010-11-09T01:45:30Z")
Milton, MA is RIDICULOUSLY crime-free! ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crime-rate-challenge-beat-my-hometown-of-harvey-il/559913/24 "2010-11-09T02:01:01Z")
Huh. [Rogers Park](http://www.clrsearch.com/Harvey_Demographics/IL/Crime_Statistics?compare=60626) has a bad rap, but I’ll take it. I love city living too much to leave it. I’ve always heard about Harvey - and the auto auction commercials. Never been there, don’t plan to. Way scarier than the city! ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crime-rate-challenge-beat-my-hometown-of-harvey-il/559913/25 "2010-11-09T02:01:48Z")
EVERY category for Canton, MA is single-digits! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crime-rate-challenge-beat-my-hometown-of-harvey-il/559913/26 "2010-11-09T02:16:39Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Milton, MA is RIDICULOUSLY crime-free! > [@etv78](#): > > EVERY category for Canton, MA is single-digits! Both of these places are death traps compared to Opal’s town. Hey Opal, any chance there’s like a sky high suicide rate in your town, from sheer boredom? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crime-rate-challenge-beat-my-hometown-of-harvey-il/559913/27 "2010-11-09T02:22:44Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > EVERY category for Canton, MA is single-digits! Oh please, Canton got a 4 crime risk overall out of 100. That is practically the hood as I see it. I am not that far away and got a 3. If it weren’t that Sullivan boy that takes bicycles for a joy ride and glares at people in parking lots, we could have gotten a zero. I keep meaning to renew my concealed weapons permit. These upper-middle class white people around here make me nervous. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crime-rate-challenge-beat-my-hometown-of-harvey-il/559913/28 "2010-11-09T02:25:32Z")
If Canton, MA has vehicular homicide/manslaughter, it’s probably and electric wheelchair! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crime-rate-challenge-beat-my-hometown-of-harvey-il/559913/29 "2010-11-09T02:54:21Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > … These upper-middle class white people around here make me nervous. OMG, did you know most of them are carrying concealed weapons??!! ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crime-rate-challenge-beat-my-hometown-of-harvey-il/559913/30 "2010-11-09T03:35:01Z")
This is basically a comparison of Harvey to everywhere I’ve lived. Santa Barbara, California: Total Crime Risk = 70. So Harvey wins that by 439%. Berkeley, Illinois (Hand dryers, yay!): Total Crime Risk = 14. Harvey wins that by 2,593%. Ouch. Tucson, Arizona: Total Crime Risk = 223. Harvey wins that by 69%. Champaign, Illinois: Total Crime Risk = 115. Harvey wins by 228%. That’s everywhere in the United States that I’ve lived. Harvey also leads in all categories except larceny in Champaign and Tucson. Also, I had no idea my hometown (the hand dryer one) was so crime-free. It seems that I actually did grow up somewhere boring. Also, Harvey seems really, really bad. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crime-rate-challenge-beat-my-hometown-of-harvey-il/559913/31 "2010-11-09T05:31:53Z")
I checked both my hometown in Western IL and the suburb in which I currently live and Harvey annihilated both. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crime-rate-challenge-beat-my-hometown-of-harvey-il/559913/32 "2010-11-09T05:59:02Z")
Not the town I live in now, but here’s the [town](http://www.clrsearch.com/Harvey_Demographics/IL/Crime_Statistics?compare=dannemora%2C+ny) I grew up in. I don’t think we even have a police department. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crime-rate-challenge-beat-my-hometown-of-harvey-il/559913.md?page=1)