Per capita is really the only way to measure. Houston's violent crime rate is also at some of the lowest levels in the last decade, though.Wfahey wrote: Your numbers for Texas as a whole may be accurate but for San Antonio there was a dip in the crime stats in the late 90's early 2000's but since then the numbers have risen quite a bit. Overall violent crimes have gone from around $86,000/yr to over $117,000/yr. Now if we throw in per capita ratios we could probably show a statistical decline as this city has exploded in size but I just took the raw numbers from SAPD. The OP lives in Conroe and I am not sure if the Houston crime has ventured that far north yet. My guess is it has.
I'm not saying bad things don't happen, but overall you are safer today than you would have been ten years ago, so saying things are getting worse or more dangerous is disingenuous and not based on actual facts.
Thefts, however, are through the roof.