This story caught me off guard. This must be a per capita study or it must use some kind of normalizing technique. Maybe it’s true. However, to think that Arizona has more crime than New York and California doesn’t make sense!
Yahoo! Finance Story: “Based on annual statistics, Nevada had the highest crime rate among the 50 states across the country, according to Morgan Quitno Press, an independent researcher in Lawrence, Kansas, which publishes the rankings annually.”