Sleepy, richy rich Belvedere, that little island made of gold up in Marin, next to Tiburon (where Tony Bennett has a mansion), has been noted by the FBI as the safest city in California for the third year running. For cities of 2,000 people or more (Belvedere has a population of 2,050) Belvedere had the lowest violent crime rate in 2010: zero. Way back in 2007 they reported a single assault. But as the 27-year-old police officer Chris Medina tells the Marin Independent Journal, he does occasionally have a job to do. "The truth is, things do happen," he says, a little defensively.
What happens exactly, besides the recent case they noted in a which a woman called to claim that her father had been screwed over by contractor over at $3,500 custom window? There were apparently a whopping 25 property crimes in 2010, including (gasp) a couple of burglaries.
[Marin IJ]