With the goal of making it easier to understand your personal safety and the violent crime rate for different activities, we’ve developed 5 unique scores designed for modern life.
This covers such activities as running, cycling, walking, going out to parks, or hiking. Violent crimes that are associated with these activities include sexual assault, aggravated assault, simple assault, and rape. We combine these types of reported crimes and calculate this against the total reported population to determine a crime score index that is ranked on a 1 to 10 score. 1 being minimal risk, 10 being the highest risk.
Typical crimes that are associated with bars, evenings outdoors, dates and clubs are robbery, intimidation, DUI, Disorderly Conduct, and Purse Snatching. We combine these types of reported crimes which can vary by type for each city and calculate the score against the total population. Much like outdoor activities, we rank 1 as the lowest risk, 10 as the highest.
Family-related crimes see the biggest variance across cities in how they are categorized. We have combined crimes that are more frequently reported in the suburbs, with a specific focus on family offenses, domestic abuse, child abuse, and in some cases, weapons violations. We take these scores, calculate against the reported population, and determine risk using our ranking from 1 to 10.
Commonly the highest number of reports across the united states are crimes related to motor vehicles and property. We’ve combined a number of these reported crime types, and have calculated a score that presents the property crime rate taking into account the crime score index and common crime statistics that result in a ranking from 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest risk, 10 being the highest.
While it's a given to say all crimes can have an effect on the community, we define certain crime activities for the Community Score. Crimes such as forgery, shoplifting, drug and weapon violations have the largest impact on community resources.
POM Safe Score is a project of passion. Our belief that by giving people the tools to be aware of their surroundings and to protect themselves we can fight back against those that mean to harm us. Can you take a moment and give us a vote or comment on Product Hunt or follow us on the socials? This helps us build awareness and help more people.
Cheers! -POM Team
