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America’s Most Dangerous Cities
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Three Louisianan cities, one of which is my hometown
I'm not surprised
At least they aren't at the very top, I guess
I'm not surprised
At least they aren't at the very top, I guess
That whole stretch down the 215 gets bad in general. Menifee has become substantially better over the last decade, but it's all ugly af.
well Hartford, CT is a drug ridden shithole. I was born there and live in the the town of Bloomfield,CT just north of Hartford.
I once saw an ice cream man get stabbed and robbed while I lived there.
....in the 90s, gangs were vicious.
It's better where wypipo who work at Quicken go.
Not better where the rest of the city lives.
They only included cities with a population over 100,000, so Camden isn't on there because they don't have enough people. Newark would be a different story.
Everyone moved to San Bernardino.
Buffalo is more dangerous than Houston? Never knew buffalo was a rough place.
Eh, it still sucks when you turn the news on the morning and hear the daily "murder in Eastside/west detroit " when waiting for the damn weather. Detroit is depressing to hear about and I live in Clinton Township (used to live in warren) But detroit is getting better, just went to an anime con at the TCF center(aka Cobo hall)
Nice to see all 5 boroughs and the rest of NYS that is not basically Canada (anything north of Yonkers to me) Is not on the list.
Is it me, but or a lot of these "lists" normally are excuses to pile on majority black cities? I would like to see this list if they took out the unemployment rates.
It's probably you. Do you have a list without uemployment rates to prove what you're trying to say.
The Ford Field, Comerica Park, Little Ceasars Arena are of Detroit is coming together nicely. The residential areas are still heart breaking to look at. I just drove through the west side today, and there are nicer parts in Djibouti, Africa than west side Detroit.
I've lived in Miami for 1.5 years now and I have seen no violent crime and I work in one of the lower-income areas. I see random crazy stories from news sources, but they seem to be outliers rather than the norm (and mostly in the burbs). South Beach, Brickell, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, (parts of) Downtown, and even Wynwood now all feel pretty safe even if there are some random homeless camps.
my hometown was probably a bit too small to be considered for this list, but it has a 1262 violent crime rate. i eventually moved to new orleans with a 1163.3 so pretty comparable really, similar poverty rates too. i always thought it was this sleepy little town, and i grew up mostly in shitty apartment complexes. i guess you just get used to it if it's always been around. i know people from my hometown were like "i'd never move to new orleans dude, you're going to get shot" and i'm remembering all the shit that went on over the years there.
I lived in Turlock for about a decade before moving out awhile ago and yeah, you really gain an appreciation for what a shithole that whole area is after experiencing something better.
Wow. Atlanta has moved up (as in improved) a lot since I grew up there. Used to be it and New Orleans competed year after year for top spot (for that matter looks like New Orleans improved to but it's still on the list).
Hell, when I was in college I remember a kid got shot visiting Atlanta for freaknik (I think that was the name of the event ) who was from Detroit and his mom lamenting she told him not to go to Atlanta cause it was dangerous.
And I knew Tacoma was crappy but didn't realize it was also dangerous too.
I live in Modesto, there's some really nice pockets and neighborhoods
but it's pretty bad in a lot of areas, very fortunate to be in a good part of town
Man, SB west to Fontana above the 10 is all sketch. I'm glad i moved away from that area, haha.
They're just as dangerous as the other 50 cities listed.
They're big cities. And most big cities always happen to be big on crime & violence.
Hell, shows like "The First 48" on A&E is a good example of crimes always happening in Miami in which they have most episodes of it & other cities like it.
Austin is super safe, so I don't think that's always the case.
Funny I am actually going to Buffalo ny in two weeks to visit a friend, well just the airport my friend lives in Lancaster.
That is very true, Detroit is now out of debt as well which brings some improvements to the crime statistics. Blight removal of the abandoned properties may yield improvements in the crime rate. Though it is rather systemic, especially if the same mistakes are repeated.
Poverty itself is a complicated issue it's not the sole cause of crime or even a direct on but can play a role in it. Growing Up Poor: Examining the Link Between Persistent Childhood Poverty and Delinquency, explains it in far greater detail. As for Anchorage I couldn't find anything which specifically gives the crime rates there. Here's an article which goes over crime in Alaska based on DPS and FBI reports.
The methodology for this article is as follows:
24/7 Wall Street said:
Unemployment plays a part in the crime rate. Due to documented inequalities in the way the US works when it comes to crime you are going to see the same or similar cities on these lists. Social factors as highlighted below:
This paper Social Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Violence by Sampson et al is based on Chicago but the points still apply to the rest of the US.
You could take out the employment but that is only removing an aspect of the socioeconomic issues which impact crime rates.
If you're interested in the UK equivalents, it's basically the three biggest cities (Birmingham, Manchester, and London) and... Leicester.
Surprised to see Buffalo as #26. I was there last month and it was a really chill city with very friendly people. You can't image crime going on there.
There's nothing else to do in Toledo or Akron, so people just commit crimes.
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Surprised Detroit is still so high on the list. I'll be in Detroit this weekend for a funeral and to go see Tool, and now I'll probably be thinking of this statistic the whole time.