The most dangerous cities/neighbourhoods in the USA

[Cabalo]

Ok, i have a friend of mine that is definitely a lunatic.
He travels a lot, and now he decided he wants to spend at least 6 months in the USA, but he wants to make a different kind of tourism.

so, he asked me to compile a list of the worse places in the USA, no matter the state, and preferably with high crime rates. After this trip he intends to go to São Paulo and live in the favelas for some time. yes, he is crazy and has a deathwish.

i googled a bit and stumbled upon these nice looking places to visit:


1. Camden, NJ
2. Gary, IN
3. Compton, LA
4. Soundview, Bronx, NYC and Brownsville, Brooklyn
5. East Palo Alto, SF
6. Flint, MI
7. Belle Glade, FL
8. East Saint Louis ( seems to be the worst)
9. Youngstown, OH
10. Laredo, TX
11. South LA, formerly South Central
12. Richmond, CA

I need indications for:

Detroit
Dallas (south) for what i read
Atlanta
Cleveland
Washington
Philadelphia
Chicago
Miami
Any other interesting place.

If you guys have pics, it would help too.

Thanks for helping me out.

[Skiz]

Ok, i have a friend of mine that is definitely a lunatic.
He travels a lot, and now he decided he wants to spend at least 6 months in the USA, but he wants to make a different kind of tourism.

so, he asked me to compile a list of the worse places in the USA, no matter the state, and preferably with high crime rates. After this trip he intends to go to São Paulo and live in the favelas for some time. yes, he is crazy and has a deathwish.

i googled a bit and stumbled upon these nice looking places to visit:


1. Camden, NJ
2. Gary, IN
3. Compton, LA
4. Soundview, Bronx, NYC and Brownsville, Brooklyn
5. East Palo Alto, SF
6. Flint, MI
7. Belle Glade, FL
8. East Saint Louis ( seems to be the worst)
9. Youngstown, OH
10. Laredo, TX
11. South LA, formerly South Central
12. Richmond, CA

I need indications for:

Detroit
Dallas (south) for what i read
Atlanta
Cleveland
Washington
Philadelphia
Chicago
Miami
Any other interesting place.

If you guys have pics, it would help too.

Thanks for helping me out.

Like any other city, these have good and bad parts of town. If you stay away from the shady areas, you have nothing worry about whatsoever. Unless you intentionally go to a bad area of town, there should be nothing that attracts you to that area and hence you'll never end up there.

Several of them you would never ever go through unless it was a destination. Laredo is a good example; it's in the middle of nowhere and unless it was your exact destination, you'd never end up there.

As for:

I need indications for:

Detroit - Never been there. If you're going to that region, I'd recommend going to Toronto instead.
Dallas (south) for what i read - Dallas fucking sucks. Period. No ifs/ands/buts about it. It's full of hoity-toity morans. If you're coming to Texas, Austin is the place to go. Runner up would be Houston.
Atlanta - Do you speak ebonics?
Cleveland - It isn't called the armpit of the US for nothing.
Washington - Washington State is beautiful. Washington DC is ghetto as hell except for the touristy area. That area is definitely worth the visit.
Philadelphia - Never been there.
Chicago - Orsum. Beautiful. Recommended.
Miami - Ditto. Especially if it's summertime. The number of beautiful women in bikinis dominating the city is like nothing you've ever seen before. Words cannot begin to describe the amount of scattered ass that is walking about.

No matter what, Sao Paulo is more dangerous than all these cities put together.

[j2k4]

the amount of scattered ass that is walking about.[/COLOR]

..."scattered ass", you say.

Perhaps you meant "ass scattered about", walking and/or otherwise.

I hope, anyway.

[NA_Magus]

There's nothing special about Laredo, crime-wise. You'd really have to look for trouble in order to get it. As with any other city, there are bad parts and good parts. If you have no relations to gangs or drugs, you wouldn't even notice the crime. By the way, almost all murders are drug/gang related.

You won't find anything interesting in this town.

[RPerry]

Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn NY

http://www.urbanology.org/BedStuy/

I know people Like to toss around Harlem, but Harlem is a joke compared to what this place used to be. I hear rumors of cleaning up a bit, but have not been in the city in 15 yrs. This was/is what the word " Ghetto " means

[clocker]

Some crime statistics are very misleading.

For one very desperate period I lived in an area of DC that had the highest murder rate in the city...only 4 blocks or so from the Capitol building.
My street had the most murders in that whole area but, despite being the only white person for blocks, I never had a whiff of trouble.

This was not due to my intimidating presence.

In fact, almost all of the crime was domestic- husband kills wife/vice-versa, father beats up son, etc.
These people weren't preying on outsiders but rather, destroying themselves.

Your friend could probably walk through this war zone and no one would pay him any attention, probably not even know he was there.

[Rat Faced]

Some crime statistics are very misleading.


Agreed.

Newcastle City Centre has one of the highest levels of Violent Crime "per head of Population" in the UK.

The fact that virtually no one lives there (maybe 200 people tops); however just about the entire North East of England under the age of 30 appears drink there (including 14,000 "Students") every friday night may have something to do with that statistic.

Have to say, I've never seen any trouble there in the last 20 years on my odd nights out either..

[bigboab]

Some crime statistics are very misleading.


Agreed.

Newcastle City Centre has one of the highest levels of Violent Crime "per head of Population" in the UK.

The fact that virtually no one lives there (maybe 200 people tops); however just about the entire North East of England under the age of 30 appears drink there (including 14,000 "Students") every friday night may have something to do with that statistic.

Have to say, I've never seen any trouble there in the last 20 years on my odd nights out either..


Add all that to the fact that a large percentage of crimes go unreported because he public know that nothing will be done about them. I know of one instance where a young girl got hit in the head by a brick thrown by a yob. She wasn't seriously injured and the police said they had insufficient evidence to get a prosecution. If that young girl had died from her injuries the place would have been crawling with police all trying to get their name on a murder conviction case.:(

[Crowley]

Chicago - (Black belt) South Side.

[Busyman]

Washington - Washington State is beautiful. Washington DC is ghetto as hell except for the touristy area. That area is definitely worth the visit.

Wow you dunno what you are talking about and I wonder how many times you've been to DC (if ever).

Tell me what is the touristy "area" of DC? I wonder if you could point out the supposedly bad parts of DC on a map (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7ADBR_en&ei=pyMfSuWsOuiElAfK0fDLBQ&resnum=1&q=washington+dc&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=qiMfSpi1KaKFlAe-sZTNBQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1).

Anyway OP, the Druid Hill Park area and area around Waterview Av in Baltimore is pretty bad. Some parts of Baltimore makes DC look like Beverly Hills.

[Cabalo]

about chicago, i also heard about the zone of Cabrini Green, home of some famous gangs...

[tmac]

3rd Ward, Houston, Texas

I almost got shot here driving in broad daylight.

[sake]

Wtf?!? What have you done? What about the police? What are they doing?

[tmac]

Wtf?!? What have you done? What about the police? What are they doing?

I was listening to Celine Dion; they weren't big fans.