A new report has ranked Hillsborough as the safest city, not just in the Bay Area, but in all of California.

This study was issued by a Trade Association for the Security and Burglar Alarm Industry but it is said to have been based in part on data provided by the F.B.I.

Conducted by the National Council for Home Safety and Security, the study ranks cities based on both violent and non-violent crime.

Statewide, the report ranks Hillsborough as the safest California city, followed by Palos Verde Estates, Imperial, Truckee, and Sierra Madre rounding out the top five.

The findings are based on the F.B.I.’s uniform crime reporting tool along with the trade group’s “internal population research.”

In the Bay Area, the study says the top ten safest cities are Hillsborough, Los Altos, Piedmont, Foster City, Mill Valley, Los Gatos, Healdsburg, Clayton, Moraga and Belmont.

Left out of the study are cities with fewer than 10,000 people or cities that failed to submit crime reports to the F.B.I. the study purports to have been done to highlight the cities that have had the least amount of violent and non-violent crimes per capita.

Well down the list are the Bay Area’s three largest cities, with San Jose coming in at 194, San Francisco at 208 and Oakland at number 253.

The study was funded by people who are in the business of selling security.

A press release says it was done to bring awareness to cities that are more likely to have more crime per capita.

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