Pittsburgh

===Crime===
Pittsburgh annually ranks as one of America's safest big cities, in 2013 being named the 3rd "most secure" big city by Farmers Insurance.<ref>{{cite news |last=Schocker |first=Laura |title=What Pittsburgh Can Teach The Rest of the Country About Living Well |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/18/pittsburgh-health_n_4339476.html |website=The Huffington Post |date=December 18, 2013}}</ref> Among [[United States cities by crime rate|crime rates of the 60 largest U.S. cities]], 43 had more instances of property crime while 16 had less when compared to Pittsburgh. More instances of violent crime were reported in 21 of the largest cities while 37 had less. The FBI recommends against using data for ranking.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/caution-against-ranking |title=Caution Against Ranking |publisher=[[FBI]]|access-date=August 8, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/ucr/word.htm |title=A Word About UCR Data |publisher=[[FBI]] |access-date=October 12, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923231201/http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/word.htm |archive-date=September 23, 2010}}</ref>
Per 100,000 persons stats (2012):
{| class="wikitable"
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!  !! Murder  !! Rape  !! Robbery  !! Assault  !! Burglary !! Theft  !! Motor vehicle  !! Total violent !! Total property
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| [[United States cities by crime rate|City]] || 13.1 || 15.1 || 363.3 || 360.4 || 812.8 || 2,438.2 || 174.3 || 752.0 || 3,425.4
|}<!--Metro:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/tables/6tabledatadecpdf |title=FBI – Table 6 |work=FBI|access-date=June 11, 2015}}</ref> -->

At the end of 2019, the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police reported 37 murders in the city that year.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/pittsburgh-homicides-hit-lowest-in-20-years/ |title=Pittsburgh homicides hit lowest in 20 years |website=Pittsburgh Tribune Live |date=January 2020}}</ref>

In Pittsburgh, the homicide rate for African Americans is seven times the national average.<ref name="Byrdsong-2015">{{Cite journal |last=Byrdsong |first=T. Rashad |display-authors=et al. |date=2015 |title=A Ground-Up Model for Gun Violence Reduction: A Community-Based Public Health Approach |url=https://www.ceapittsburgh.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/A-Ground-Up-Model-for-Gun-Violence-Reduction.pdf |journal=Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work |volume=13 |issue=1|pages=76–86 |doi=10.1080/15433714.2014.997090 |pmid=26151769 |s2cid=205889350 }}</ref> Some people believe that over-reliance on law enforcement exacerbates homicide rates.<ref name="Byrdsong-2015" /> There is also concern regarding the effectiveness of law enforcement in solving these cases, as 97% of cases involving a black victim remain unsolved.<ref name="Benzing-2016">{{Cite web |last=Benzing |first=Jeffrey |date=January 16, 2016 |title=Pittsburgh's repeating tragedy of unsolved black homicides |url=http://www.publicsource.org/pittsburghs-repeating-tragedy-of-unsolved-black-homicides/ |access-date=December 16, 2023 |website=PublicSource |language=en-US}}</ref> This has led certain residents to believe law enforcement to be ineffective or apathetic.<ref name="Benzing-2016" /> This is despite an increasing police budget. In 2023, members of the Pittsburgh City Council approved an increase to the police budget by $6 million.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Koscinski |first=Kiley |date=April 27, 2023 |title=Pittsburgh City Council preliminarily approves funding to support new police contract |url=https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2023-04-27/pittsburgh-council-new-police-contract |access-date=December 16, 2023 |website=90.5 WESA |language=en}}</ref> About 6% of this money is expected to go to the Stop the Violence trust fund. This fund goes to improving parks and recreation, various non-profits, and to the office of Community Health and Safety, in effort to holistically improve the social pressures supposedly causing violence in Pittsburgh.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Felton |first=Julia |date=December 13, 2023 |title=Pittsburgh to use money from anti-violence trust fund on parks, recreation |url=https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-to-use-money-from-anti-violence-trust-fund-on-parks-recreation/ |access-date=December 16, 2023 |website=TribLIVE.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

Some people do not believe these efforts to be adequate. Certain studies, such as conducted by the Police Scorecard, rate the Pittsburgh Police Department at 37% quality (with 100% being the best). They rated Pittsburgh below the 50th percentile in the categories “police budget cost per person,” “fines / forefeitures,” “Police Presence/Over-Policing (Officers per Population),” “Force Used per Arrest,” “Racial Disparities in Deadly Force,” “Excessive Force Complaints Upheld,” “Discrimination Complaints Upheld,” “Criminal Misconduct Complaints Upheld,” “Arrest Rate for Low Level Offenses,” and “Racial Disparities in Drug Arrests.” This is 10 out of 15 categories.<ref>{{Cite web |last=CampaignZero |title=Police Scorecard: Pittsburgh, PA |url=https://policescorecard.org/ |access-date=December 16, 2023 |website=Police Scorecard: Pittsburgh, PA |language=en}}</ref>