Sammamish called safest city in state

Sammamish has been named the safest city in Washington state by MOVOTO, an online real estate blog. The service noted that the city had no murders and a total of 762 crimes per 100,000 in 2012. Of these, 728 were property crimes.

Sammamish has been named the safest city in Washington state by MOVOTO, an online real estate blog. The service noted that the city had no murders and a total of 762 crimes per 100,000 in 2012. Of these, 728 were property crimes.

MOVOTO started with a list of places in the state with populations of more than 10,000 based on the 2010 U.S. Census data. It then gathered crime data on each city from the FBI’s 2012 Uniform Crime Report, omitting any that do not report crime data to the bureau. This left MOVOTO with 74 cities. The company then looked at the number of murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts.

The other nine cities included Snoqualmie, Bainbridge Island, Mercer Island, Pullman, West Richland, Kenmore, Camas, Mukilteo and Maple Valley.