If you feel safe living in Northeast Texas, you have good reason. The FBI's annual Uniform Crime Report shows that towns in Fannin, Hunt, Lamar, Rockwall, and other counties are well below the national crime rate average.
Nationally, violent crimes averaged about 6 incidents per 10,000 people in 2014 (the latest data from the FBI). In towns such as Commerce, Bonham, Paris, Greenville, and Sulphur Springs, violent crime occurs less than once per 1,000 people annually.
Statistically, Bonham is the safest of the larger towns in Northeast Texas. There were a mere nine violent crimes reported in 2014, in a city of 10,000.
Texas, however, does lead the nation (by a considerable amount) in human trafficking. According to the UCR, there were nearly 1,100 human trafficking incidents in Texas in 2014. That's closing in on twice the number of incidents in second-place Illinois, which had just fewer than 800. According to the FBI, most of the trafficking incidents in Texas involve involuntary servitude.