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Border & Immigration

Border Cities El Paso, San Diego Have Lowest Crime Rate

By John Rosman / Digital Editor, KPBS
Published February 7, 2013 at 12:30 PM PST
This story was published more than 11 years ago.

For the third straight year, Congressional Quarterly reported the border city El Paso had the lowest crime rating with population greater than 500,000 in America. Another border city, San Diego came in second.

This week, San Diego and El Paso both made headlines as the two cities Janet Napolitano visited during her two-day border tour. She cited them as examples of border security successes.

In San Diego, Napolitano cited federal figures showing apprehensions of illegal border crossers were down 50 percent since 2008.

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Both San Diego and El Paso’s sister cities across the border have seen a significant drop in violence this past year as well.

Congressional Quarterly calculated the crime rates from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) 2011 data.

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John Rosman
John Rosman is the digital editor for KPBS News. He oversees all news content on KPBS.org and across all digital properties. Prior, John was the social media editor for Fronteras Desk. Before heading south, John was a digital producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting. There he led the flagship radio program Think Out Loud in all aspects of digital media. Working with OPB's cultural website, Arts & Life, he also produced multimedia features. By way of metro Detroit, John is a proud graduate of the University of Oregon's School of Journalism. He has worked as an editor in television and film. But he found his passion for public radio during a long winter, in a lonely hotdog stand. When John's away from the office, you can find him catching up on all the sun he missed in Oregon.
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