POLICE CHIEF MACDONALD: “To say that Barnstable is more dangerous than Chicago or Compton California or Los Angeles California or New York City is ridiculous…” [VIDEO]
HYANNIS – In a recent article by the Cape Cod Times, a company which collects violent crime statistics from the FBI and 18,000 other law enforcement agencies recently ranked the Town of Barnstable as one of the most dangerous places in the entire United States of America.
According to NeighborhoodScout’s 2017 list of the Top 100 Dangerous U.S. Cities, Barnstable ranks 93rd, just one spot below the City of Cincinnati.
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Sara Mannal, a Town of Barnstable employee, interviewed Chief Paul MacDonald yesterday for the town’s morning informational video broadcast on Channel 18.
In the following, Mannal and Chief MacDonald provide their interpretations of the recent report which ranks Barnstable as having an extremely high rate of violent crime.
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