Discuss the post 12 Most Dangerous States 2007 made within our Latest Gabs forum; Post Snippet: No. 1 -- Nevada
Nevada may not have the highest murder rate, but its crime ...
No. 1 -- Nevada
Nevada may not have the highest murder rate, but its crime rankings across the board offer the highest odds of a crime against you and your family.
Murder: 3
Rape: 11
Robbery: 2
Assault: 13
Burglary: 7
Motor Vehicle Theft: 1
No. 2 -- New Mexico
New Mexico's coiffed tourist image of open desert spaces, Earth-conscious living and colorful hot-air balloons belie a serious crime problem in this border state.
No. 4 -- Maryland
Hugging the nation's high-crime capital, struggling to revitalize Baltimore and growing its gambling industry, Maryland has the highest murder and robbery rate.
No. 5 -- Tennessee
Tennessee residents might sing about love for country and neighbor, but lag behind in showing it. The state earns the No. 2 slot for most assaults. Maybe that's just how country boys work out their issues.
No. 6 -- South Carolina
Whatever happened to Southern hospitality? Sunny South Carolina is charged with the highest assault problem in the Most Dangerous States list.
No. 7 -- Alaska
Alaska is plagued with having the highest number of rape cases. There could be a correlation with alcohol abuse, also known to plague the state.
No. 8 -- Florida
It has been commented on a city-data.com forum that Florida crime is not concentrated in one area, but rather spread across the state.
No. 9 -- California
Even though California makes the top 12 list for Most Dangerous States, the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice states that crime rates in California have fallen over the last two decades.
No. 10 -- Louisiana
Tied with Maryland for the state with the highest murder rate, according the Southern Digest, Louisiana also has the second highest number of black homicides.
No. 11 -- Michigan
In a city-data.com Michigan forum, it is noted that the east side of Michigan, which is also where lower economic areas are, carries the brunt of the state's crime.
No. 12 -- Texas
After seeing a decline in crime in the last decade, some concerned Texans (on Topix.net) question whether a rise in the past couple years is related to the Katrina disaster.
The Southwest has become dangerous. I noticed Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Nevada all in there. I am suprised that neither Illinois, or New York were on there.
I've been to America and to be honest I felt safer in America than my own country .... I'm a gambler so given that you guys have a population of over 300,000,000 and my country has 4,000,000...
USA
1 in 300,000,000 chance of it happening to me
Ive been all over the US and you know where I actually got mugged?
Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
One of the most harmless towns in the country, I get punched in the head and my wallet swiped.
I've walked the steets of alot of US cities, often at night, no one ever punched me in the head for my wallet with 21 bucks in it.
Until I took a walk in BoothBay Harbor at about 2 PM in the afternoon.
You can get mugged or killed anywhere if you are in the wrong place at the right time really.
Detroit is the only place I can say Ive been that 1) would never go back to and 2) scared the bejeebes out of me for no real reason other than the atmosphere and the people.
but no one punched me in the head in Detroit.
NOOOO.... that happened in a tiny crime free tourist trap where the local cops haddn't filled out a police report in so long the forms were on parchment and their ink wells were dried up.
They didnt even believe me for the first 15 minutes.
"here? are you sure???"
the stats might say the chances are higher.... not sure how that translates into real world truth.
12 Most Dangerous States 2007 
BUT, I'm NOT complaining! 
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