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Little Compton Named 'Safest Place in Rhode Island'
The Town had had zero violent crimes in 2013, according to a report by Movoto.
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Sleep tight, Little Compton.
Theres no reason why residents in this town shouldn’t be able to sleep soundly at night: Little Compton was just crowned the safest place in Rhode Island by Movoto.
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The report described Little Compton as “everything that you’d expect from a charming community in the northeast.”
To determine the 10 Safest Places in Rhode Island in 2015, Movoto compared each town’s rate of murders, violent crimes, property crimes and total crimes based on the 2013 FBI Uniform Crime Report.
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The towns were then ranked based on their score and the town with the lowest score was deemed the safest place in Rhode Island.
The town with the lowest score, Little Compton, had zero violent crimes and a total of 26 crimes for the entirety of 2013, the report states.
The Town jumped up two spots from last year to take the number one spot in the 2015 rankings.
Right behind Little Compton in the 2015 rankings was Glocester and Scituate, the second and third safest places in the state, respectively.
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