Just so you don’t think Del Mar is a ghetto, you have to look at how crime stats are calculated. The number of residents is divided by the number of crimes. The number of residents is considered the full time residents (census data). Del Mar is considered to have only 2,000 residents, yet at any one time there are more than 10k people laying their heads there. Much of what people consider as Del Mar is actually in the city of San Diego and not truly Del Mar. So the Del mar and some coastal numbers are skewed. Another think to note is 4-S is considered part of poway for arjis reporting. You skipped Ramona, the lowest crime in the county for three years, under a 13.0 per thousand last year. Ramona usually wins with the lowest stats. The funny thing is that gun ownership is probably highest in Ramona where you don’t need one and in Oceanside you not only need to have one, you need to be a good shot and have lots of ammunition.
Other than those anomolies, the numbers are accurate, Oceanside and Escondido are many times more dangerous than most, Vista not far behind, then San marcos and then Carlsbad, then Poway. If you look at the officer per thousand residents numbers it is exactly the inverse. Carlsbad has the most cops per resident, followed by poway, then San marcos. Vista , Esco and Oceanside have the fewest, it’s not rocket science, less cops=more crime. All of the cities listed are small police departments or Sheriff contracts, don’t get me started on the City of San Diego. All of the city locations have far fewer cops per resident and it’s getting worse with the city’s financial problems. If it’s crime you worry about avoid San Diego City (includes La Jolla and Scripps) because it is not going to get any better, they almost went bankrupt during the biggest economic boom of the century, how are they going to cope with the bad times?
