Newburgh mayor disputes city rank as 9th-most-dangerous in U.S.
Photo credit: AP | The city of Newburgh ranks 9th in America based the on the crime to population ratio, according to NeighborhoodScout.
Newburgh's mayor on Monday challenged a website's ranking of it as the ninth-most-dangerous city in the country based on 2011 data.
"Already, we've discovered several of those numbers are not accurate," said Mayor Judy Kennedy. "What I can see ... is that they've mixed City of Newburgh data with Town of Newburgh data."
Kennedy said she is having the Newburgh Police Department feed its...
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