Ramsey Among Top 70 Safest New Jersey Cities

RAMSEY, NJ — Ramsey was ranked 68th among the 100 safest cities in New Jersey on the National Council For Home Safety And Security's list of the 2019 Safest Cities in New Jersey on alarms.org.

Ramsey had five violent crimes and 139 property crimes from 2016 and 2017, giving the town a violent-crime rate of 0.327 and 9.101 property crimes per 1,000 people.

Nearby River Vale was the top ranked city on the list. Tenafly was ranked No. 5. Hillsdale was ranked No. 6. New Milford was ranked No. 9 and Westwood was ranked No. 10.

The rankings cite data from the most recent FBI Uniform Crime Report. But they eliminated cities that didn't give the FBI a complete crime report and cities with populations lower than 10,000.

The list accounts for the number of reported violent and property crimes per 1,000 people. Then they compute a variable called Police Adequacy — total crimes divided by the number of police employees. The smaller the Police Adequacy number, the safer the city, according to the methodology.

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