What are some of the most DANGEROUS sectors in US?

[Alistar7]

Detroit
North Side of Pittsburgh
South side of Chicago
Newport News, VA

Been to all, I always travel to the worst part of town whenever I visit a city just to check it out.

 

[1sikbITCH]

Originally posted by: Captante
Believe it or not NYC has a very low murder-rate for large cities at #50 & LA isn't much worse at #31 ... according to the Wiki Detroit is #1 (theres a shock) & Baltimore is #2.

I don't know about Detroit, but in Baltimore I'd guess that 95% of those murders are just drug dealers and users shooting each other in the ghetto. Therefore, we applaud it.

 

[Epic22]

I heard Camden New Jersey was a pretty rough place

 

[Bibble]

As a resident of NJ (although I go to school in NY), I can vouch for Camden being worse than Newark. That being said, there are probably good and bad areas in every city of the world.

 

[Sentinel]

NYC is fine. Newark is terrible. Camden is worse.

 

[SoulAssassin]

Richard Allen projects in Philly.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

murder rates in philly this year are mind boggling.

 

[meltdown75]

Flint

 

[ranmaniac]

Originally posted by: Sentinel
NYC is fine. Newark is terrible. Camden is worse.

I've never been to Camden, NJ, but just from the view of it across the river in Philadelphia, I felt like how Sam and Frodo did when they saw Mordor.

 

[meltdown75]

Jane & Finch

wait..

 

[RandomFool]

I hear part of Norfolk, VA are pretty scary.

 

[wwswimming]

having been mugged by corporate executives stealing
money from my bank account, and by the 4some that
hit me over the head that one day, having shared
a weight room with a retired legbreaker/debt counselor
at a gym in San Diego - i found the crooked executives
to be the scariest of the lot.

 

[davestar]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
murder rates in philly this year are mind boggling.

Baltimore's murder rate is double Philly's. Slackers.

 

[Pugnax]

south east dc?

 

[Vonkhan]

Camden and Newark are WAAAAAY more dangerous than NYC

 

[Pocatello]

Wow, Detroit and Flint come up a lot, what's up with that?

 

[nageov3t]

Detroit, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Newark are the cities that immediately spring to mind.

newark is mostly bad in the projects, though it spills out into downtown after dark.

I worked in Newark for about 3 years, working late shifts (typically getting out of work around 12-1 am). downtown newark isn't that bad during the daylight hours, when businesses are open and the whole area is crawling with cops, but coming out of work, I'd walk to my car as quickly as possible, keep my head down, and GTFO of the city as quickly as possible, never turning off the main drags. eventually, I started paying $300/month for parking just to avoid being out on the streets (there was an underground/enclosed private parking lot in my office building that had direct elevator access upstairs). this was downtown, so it wasn't that bad, but you couldn't pay me to go through the projects at night.

NYC has been pretty well gentrified.

 

[trmiv]

Even though a lot of these cities have dangerous areas, a lot of times the entire city isn't that way. Take Oakland, CA for instance, I worked in downtown Oakland for 4 years and walked the streets every day at lunch with a bunch of other folks doing the same thing. I never felt unsafe there at all during the day. (night is a different story of course) But, that's downtown that you wouldn't catch me setting foot in east or west Oakland at any time of day because I'd fear for my life.

 

[K1052]

St. Louis can be pretty terrible actually, not just the IL side.

Downtown Gary, IN looks like the set where they shot the Battle of Hue city scene in Full Metal Jacket and is about as safe.

 

[SoulAssassin]

I grew up about 10 minutes for Camden and used to go there almost daily to, ahem, purchase goods back in high school. It's not as bad as people are making it out to be. There's no big gang warfare like you have in Compton or anything like that. It's just a really, really, really poor city. I think the average income was something like $16k/yr. There is no "nice section" of Camden, it's all slums. I've hung out on some of the roughest corners (10th and Liberty, 24th and Federal) and never felt scared. Some new guy threw and M80 (probably something less powerful but you get the point) at my boy one time and it went off near his chest. They beat that dudes ass in the street for messing with us. I never had a problem in Camden.

Now, Richard Allen projects in Philly as I mentioned earlier, those boys are crazy. Those are the cats that would shoot someone for no reason. I wouldn't go in there with anything less than the National Guard.

For the record, I'm white.

 

[elektrolokomotive]

Originally posted by: Alistar7

South side of Chicago

Pretty broad brush you're using there. Some parts of the South Side are actually quite nice.

 

[PepePeru]

sector 17
that place is crawling w/ combine.

 

[bigi]

Originally posted by: Alistar7 South side of Chicago

Pretty broad brush you're using there. Some parts of the South Side are actually quite nice.

True.... but we all know what he meant, right? :evil:

 

[michaelsslave]

AREA 51!!!!!!!

 

[stinger25]

Originally posted by: G Wizard
sector 17
that place is crawling w/ combine.

...Ravenholm... "we don't go there anymore"...