tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378448671178780950.post8425473749869039960..comments2024-02-16T23:35:34.129-06:00Comments on CJ'S STREET REPORT: WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO ABOUT ESCAMBIA COUNTY'S HIGHER VIOLENT CRIME RATE?James Scaminaci IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18172075308725904540noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378448671178780950.post-78670107379848569872016-01-27T18:37:43.870-06:002016-01-27T18:37:43.870-06:00It would have been interesting to include Santa Ro...It would have been interesting to include Santa Rosa County as one of the counties described because as Dr. Rick Harper has assessed the two counties function as two halves of a single metropolitan area geographically separated by the blue line of the Escambia River but more importantly are demographic worlds apart. An awful lot of people live in Santa Rosa County but work in Escambia County to include a lot of City of Pensacola employees. When you compare Escambia County (the Sheriff not patrolling the City of Pensacola, the PSC campus and UWF campus) with Santa Rosa County (the Sheriff not patrolling Gulf Breeze and Milton), you really see why people with families want to live in Santa Rosa County (low crime, good schools, low taxes) with one or both parents working in Escambia County. When you look at it that way, comparing the two adjacent counties, the contrast is even starker. The mystery is why crime is so high "in" the City of Pensacola in spite of so many police officers per capita, higher than in Unincorporated Escambia County/Town of Century patrolled by the Sheriff. The reason might be that there is more crime or just that when crimes do occur people "in" the city are more likely to report them. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com