El Paso has been ranked the 2nd Safest City in America of cities with a population of more than 500,000. El Paso was ranked as 3rd Safest in last year’s ranking. This years ranking are based on the 2008 U.C.R. crime statistics as well as other considerations.

For more information on these rankings and the considerations used by CQ Press, please visit their website at: http://os.cqpress.com/citycrime/2009/CityCrime2009.html

CQ Press is now the publisher for Morgan Quitno’s study on city rankings.