Santa Ana named 4th safest U.S. city, by Forbes

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• Congratulations guys! It goes against the popular preconceptions, but apparently it's true!

• I was standing at 17th and Ross the other night, having missed the bus after the Planned Parenthood thing, and I called up a cabbie friend. It was close to 11. When my friend heard where I was, he said, "Get over back down to Norm's quickly - it's dangerous there!" I looked around. It didn't look or feel dangerous to me.

• Michele Quinn's head will explode. She will say Forbes must be run by liberal union Mexican teachers.

• "it’s dangerous there!” I looked around. It didn’t look or feel dangerous to me"...... Hmmmmm

  That is because you have excluded yourself.

• "Santa Ana named 4th safest U.S. city, by Forbes"..... Hmmmm

  It is relative Admin.

  There is no award metal after the bronze.

  No one counts the losers after that.

• In other words Admin, would you be positively exited if your children bring "D" from the school?

• Been in SA for a while now...seems safe on the violent crime route like they say, but lower level crimes such as car break ins, garage break ins, people walking in unlocked doors and taking property, etc...seems to have increased IMO.

• Stanley- The fallacy in your "D" argument is that it is not a grade but instead a ranking (4th out of 250). The classroom analogy would be whether he would be happy if his child had the 4th highest GPA/score out of a class of 250...pretty good IMO. If the 4th highest score was a "D" that would be a bell curve that no one would want...

  Even more impressive in my mind may even be their ranking compared to the median income...the cities ahead of SA all have substantially higher income levels. Sure there is measure of that somewhere

• I have a deep love for this city, and it hurts when people say mean things (especially in the OC Register comments) that are simply born of ignorance or completely untrue. Of course Santa Ana has problems - fiscal and crime-wise, but so does every large metropolitan city. In my own experience, Santa Ana is filled with caring family-oriented people that want to see this city succeed and do well, because they in turn, can see their property values rise, and better businesses come to their neighborhood. I love Santa Ana for the Mexican influence, and the new businesses that are drawn here because they know there is a new market. I love that we can embrace all cultures, and all get along. It's the people that want to EXCLUDE that rile me. There are still dicey parts of Santa Ana that are rife with gang activity, but they are not in the areas where people come to visit. I love Santa Ana.

  • Amen! Well said. And you are quite right.

• "The fallacy in your “D” argument is that it is not a grade but instead a ranking (4th out of 250). The classroom analogy would be whether he would be happy if his child had the 4th highest GPA/score out of a class of 250…pretty good IMO. If the 4th highest score was a “D” that would be a bell curve that no one would want…"..... Hmmmmm

  This is a classical case of how the statistic can be abused by anyone who wants get their results out.

  Example:
  If in the classroom of 35 moron mongoloids there is first student graded "A"; second student graded "B"; third student graded "C"; and forth student graded "D"; than the "D" student is ranking (4th best out of 35) in classroom.

  You can do that same as an average per city having group of students instead of one student so if your child falls into the group "D" he/she belongs to 4th best students in the city.

  Bottom line is that Santa Ana will be the safest city when pajaritos will sing about it on every tree.

  In other words when people will move from Laguna Hills to Santa Ana for safety reasons in which case property value will rise in price and massive gentrification will take place.

  As long as property value remains low it indicates that the Santa Ana is high crime city regardless of any Forbes propaganda.