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18 Dec ’15 - 7:34 am

our most dangerous city is considered one of the country's safest, crazy

BANGOR, Maine — Although drug addiction and related crimes are a growing problem across Maine, the state and its metropolitan areas still maintain some of the lowest violent crime rates in the nation, according to data collected by the FBI.

Bangor’s metropolitan area, which includes all of Penobscot County, recorded only 76.9 violent crimes — murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault — per 100,000 people for 2014, the latest crime data available from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Portland and South Portland came in at 127.6 violent crimes per 100,000 and Lewiston-Auburn, which includes Androscoggin County, had a rate of 142.

“Bangor is a safe community,” Bangor police Chief Mark Hathaway said Sunday in an email. “We are very fortunate to have a supportive and engaged community and a skilled and dedicated group of police officers who work tirelessly at reducing crime and improving the quality of our remarkable city.”

more https://bangordailynews.com/2015/12/13/news/bangor/bangor-among-safest-cities-in-the-nation-fbi-data-shows/