Point Pleasant Among 100 Safest New Jersey Communities

Point Pleasant was recently named among the 100 safest cities in New Jersey, ranking 57th on the National Council For Home Safety And Security's list of the 2019 Safest Cities in the state on alarms.org.

The rankings cite data from the most recent FBI Uniform Crime Report, which features statistics from 2016 and 2017. But they eliminated cities that didn't give the FBI a complete crime report and cities with populations lower than 10,000.

The list accounts for the number of reported violent and property crimes per 1,000 people. Then they compute a variable called "Police Adequacy" — total crimes divided by the number of police employees. The smaller the Police Adequacy number, the safer the city, according to the methodology.

Point Pleasant had 16 violent crimes and 122 property crimes in that time span, giving the town a violent-crime rate of 0.856 and 6.525 property crimes per 1,000 people.

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