Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Lake Worth Beach #5 for violent crime

Lake Worth Beach Makes top 5 for the most dangerous cities in Florida

Of course, we continue to hear that crime is down when we get PBSO reports.

Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000 residents): 9.3

Chance of being a victim: 1 in 106

We are safer than 6% of American cities.

5 Most Violent cities in Florida See how they come up with the violent crime rate.
br> This is rather shocking to say the least. Miami not on the list? They are safer than we are.
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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2023 at 5:29 PM

    is that just lwb city or out to 441 and down to boynton .the news portrayes lwb city limits as half the county

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  2. Lynn AndersonFebruary 15, 2023 at 6:11 PM

    What news?
    This says Lake Worth Beach. That is specific.

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  3. RGFebruary 16, 2023 at 10:20 AM

    @5:29 is correct, Lynn.

    This Neighborhood Scout report shows the same map it did before the name change, taking every unincorporated area of Central PBC and counting it as Lake Worth and now Beach.

    I initially brought this up 7 years ago and continued to talk about it during my campaign.

    The voters decided to change our name - due to the Commission at the time putting it on the 2019 ballot - instead.

    Obviously, it has changed nothing.

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  4. Lynn AndersonFebruary 16, 2023 at 11:00 AM

    OK--thanks RG, didn't see a map.

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  5. Lynn AndersonFebruary 16, 2023 at 11:18 AM

    We knew it wouldn't change a darn thing. Just about anytime the city puts something on the ballot, it passes. This was Scott Maxwell's brain storm. It was not well thought out. And you are absolutely right, nothing has changed. Our city, now Lake Worth Beach, (I voted against this) is in the news all the time for "something near Lake Worth Beach" or whatever.
    And as an aside, I voted for you!

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 16, 2023 at 6:54 PM

    I see no map but it must be stats from out of our city limits of LWB. No way could we have that much crime, could we?

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 16, 2023 at 8:42 PM

    I voted against it as well. It was all for marketing reasons, not crime stats.

    Whoever compiled the report, couldn't care less what we call ourselves.

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  8. Lynn AndersonFebruary 17, 2023 at 5:53 AM

    @8:42...I cared a lot about the name change. We had been Lake Worth since our town was chartered and they had no sense of history and its importance...didn't give a hot fig about that.

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  9. RGFebruary 18, 2023 at 3:36 PM

    Thanks, Lynn.

    Maybe time to get a petition going to change it back, eh?

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