Researching Crime Rates?

[Andrew Rogers]

I've been looking at out-of-state investing and have narrowed down to a few cities I'd be interested in and have started to try and narrow down neighborhoods. One of the first things I'm looking at is crime rates, however, in my research, I've sometimes gotten somewhat conflicting results and I'm not sure which ones to believe. So simply:

What are the best tools for researching these things? And how should I research this?

I've mostly been looking it up by zip code but if there's a better way to do this, any feedback is appreciated!