When Is a "?<br >When is a towii "sale"?<br > You won t find the answer 1~} a dfction;~C， ()~lr Vcb，stcr ~; New Colle~;iatc<br >Dictionary dethms "safe" as "freed fr~m harm ;~: risk" or "secure fr<~m threat of<br >danger， harm， or loss" That dc，v，:ribc:~ tiac c，+，ridition of bcmg ~afc， but it doesn t<br >help ~ou tell !f a commumtv iv， safe<br > Morc~weL common sense wi]! tell vcu~ {I~a~ ~ t~~w r~ ;:au ~.3.iaral~，tcc ~. ~~1 c，:~f~-<br >plete safety by either of ti~，，sc defi~ili~ms All v，，:~t: c:;m ask for，---m this life， at ap，+，<br >rate--is relative sa[etv. And cvc~; there y~，ll have n，:; guarantees All ，+)u ca~3 g~><br >by is the town s past record and prcse~t s:tiu~tion<br > There s a pers~ma! sick to ti+c pv: +b!cm， to~ ~:ou car~ live in the-: safest of ~H<br >Safe Places， but it that town has iu.st one crime that year and it affects yo .+<br >you re not likely to think of it as "s;dc + anyInore<br > We can t protect you from al} danger. "That ~ !ifcY a，~ the :，ayi~g ~z，~cs. AIi we<br >can do is sho~ yot! the steps we used .to .select tuwp， s that are relatively safe We<br >think our steps are pretty thoto igh We also think ti~c odds ，，+ ill be much mot，::<br >in your favor if you live m one ~?f ~，~v，r Safe Ptaccs. But if your n!m~bcr s up， it s<br >uP.<br > Essentially， there were three steps m ~ +~tr seiect/，， ，t+ pr+>ccss to+ the Nafc/~&ces<br >for the XOs<br >S ~P 1: DF/I ERM|Nt!; TIlE (.)VF;RAI，I， CRIME RNFE<br > First， we calculated a towr; s overai~ crime rate ] }mrc ale 1v~，> c]cme~ts (hat<br > deterufiue the rate: the town s populati~ and the mtmber >f c~i，mcs ，.:~)mnl[tted<br > m the town.<br > If a town has a popuiation of ]03.11)0 at+<l If) crimes are c，，:，im~++itt~:d ii~ it thi~:<br > year， we can say that it has ~++ crhac rate ~+f 1 i+tcicte++t per }，!)C)0 inEabitants<br > But remember: Crime razes ate all re hetive. l:.+wn X is ， safe only in cotnparisot~<br >