Forbes: Honolulu is third-safest city in the U.S.

Forbes magazine has ranked Honolulu the third-safest city in the United States. The city of Plano, Texas, was ranked No. 1, followed by Portland, Ore. Rounding out the top five were Honolulu, San Jose, Calif., and Omaha, Neb.

To calculate which cities with populations above 250,000 were the safest, Forbes used 2009 violent crimes statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with 2008 traffic fatality statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.