Lacey is safer than Olympia, study finds
Of the 25 safest cities in Washington state, Olympia ranked 12th while Lacey edged its neighbor to the west to place 11th, according to a company called Safe Home. Safe Home studied FBI and U.S. Census data to arrive at its rankings.
Sammamish ranked No. 1 with a safety score of 86.07, while Spokane was 25th with a score of 46.6.
Lacey had a safety score of 70.77, showing fewer violent crimes and property crimes overall than in Olympia.
Olympia had a score of 64.48.
However, Lacey was trending in the wrong direction, with violent crime up nearly 20 percent and property crime rising 17 percent, the data show.
Both those trending categories in Olympia were nearly flat, the data show.
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This story was originally published December 17, 2017 at 3:17 PM with the headline "Lacey is safer than Olympia, study finds."