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City<br />

TABLE 5. <strong>Crime</strong> <strong>and</strong> Upward Light Energy Loss in USA Cities<br />

UCR Index<br />

<strong>Crime</strong> Rate<br />

%<br />

Morgan Quitno<br />

<strong>Crime</strong> Rate Score<br />

Morgan Quitno<br />

<strong>Crime</strong> Rank:<br />

Safe 1, Unsafe<br />

315<br />

65<br />

Annual<br />

Upward Light<br />

Energy Loss<br />

per Unit Area<br />

MW.h/km 2<br />

Year 1998 1998 1998 1997<br />

Minneapolis MN 9.561 183 293 28.2 (11.0)<br />

Las Vegas NV 5.846 78.34 225 24.5<br />

St Louis MO 13.53 302.3 311 22.9 (11.2)<br />

Denver CO 5.306 51.74 195 18.4 (12.1)<br />

Philadelphia PA 7.319 163.6 287 18.0<br />

Buffalo NY 7.164 110.9 257 16.0 (10.5)<br />

Baltimore MD 10.94 307.6 312 15.7<br />

Kansas City MO 11.79 236.9 304 15.5 (10.2)<br />

New York City NY 4.392 51.62 194 15.0<br />

Washington, DC 8.828 230.9 299 13.5<br />

Boston MA 6.251 81.67 231 13.4<br />

Phoenix AZ 8.545 89.28 241 11.5<br />

Boulder CO 5.200 -39.71 46 8.38<br />

Sacramento CA 8.219 91.08 243 7.72<br />

Stockton CA 7.311 81.32 230 7.38<br />

Tucson AZ 9.685 96.32 249 7.32<br />

Modesto CA 6.737 18.67 142 6.77<br />

Fresno CA 7.933 85.41 235 6.67<br />

Portl<strong>and</strong> OR 9.548 99.36 251 4.51<br />

Salem OR 8.375 8.69 126 4.43<br />

Eugene OR 9.013 13.74 136 2.73<br />

The entries are for all 21 USA cities included in Isobe <strong>and</strong> Hamamura (1998). They are in<br />

descending order of annual upward light energy loss per unit area, as observed by satellite.<br />

Estimated values for no-snow conditions are shown in parentheses. Population <strong>and</strong> UCR crime<br />

rate data are from FBI (1998) except for St Louis, Buffalo, <strong>and</strong> Kansas City, which were missing;<br />

instead, their UCR data for 1998 are from Fight<strong>Crime</strong>FortWayne (1999). The Morgan Quitno<br />

(2000) score of weighted UCR crime rate is positive if above <strong>and</strong> negative if below the mean<br />

weighted UCR crime rate. The crime ranking is based on this score for 315 US cities. The UCR<br />

crime rate is plotted against upward light energy loss per unit area in Figure 7. The crime score is<br />

used in later figures.

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