Editing Springfield, Massachusetts (section)

===Crime===
In 2010, Springfield ranked 35th in the United States' City Crime Rankings—its second-lowest ranking in recent years, (in 2009, it ranked 51st). Springfield's 2010 crime rating of 142 is down approximately 50% from its heights in the late 1990s and 2000s.<ref name="cqpress1">{{cite web|title=2010 City Crime Rate Rankings|url=http://os.cqpress.com/citycrime/2010/City_crime_rate_2010-2011_hightolow.pdf|date=April 12, 2015|website=Os.cqpress.com|access-date=July 12, 2017|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150412010233/http://os.cqpress.com/citycrime/2010/City_crime_rate_2010-2011_hightolow.pdf|archive-date=April 12, 2015}}</ref>

The [[Urban Land Institute]] stated in 2010 that "the perception of crime [in Springfield] appears to be worse than the reality".<ref>[http://www.uli.org/~/media/Documents/ULIDifferentialContent/TAP_Report_Downtown_Springfd--FINAL11%206%2007%20pdf.ashx Resource Library | Urban Land Institute] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622120825/http://www.uli.org/~/media/Documents/ULIDifferentialContent/TAP_Report_Downtown_Springfd--FINAL11%206%2007%20pdf.ashx |date=June 22, 2011 }}. Uli.org. Retrieved on July 15, 2013.</ref>

By another measure, crime and population data collected by the FBI, and indexed by [[NeighborhoodScout]] showed between 2010 and 2018 the violent crime rate for Springfield decreased by approximately 52.5%, whereas the property crime rate declined by 54%; both rates remain more than twice their respective state averages, as of 2018.<ref>{{cite web|title=Springfield crime rates and statistics|date=August 15, 2010|website=NeighborhoodScout|url=http://www.neighborhoodscout.com:80/ma/springfield/crime/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815035247/http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ma/springfield/crime/|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 15, 2010|access-date=February 5, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Springfield crime rates and statistics|date=January 30, 2019|website=NeighborhoodScout|url=https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ma/springfield/crime|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130050205/https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ma/springfield/crime|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 30, 2019}}</ref>