25 Most Dangerous Cities in the USA

[dickey1331]

95.3/100,000.

Yeah I figured it was pretty high.


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[Knight165]

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It's so funny that you mention that, as here in my neighborhood (Cleveland/Lakewood border area right by the lake) we had a guy breaking into homes and stealing all of the copper pipes out of basements. No lie, this guy didn't steal any TVs, stereos, jewelry, nothing but copper pipes. The houses in my neighborhood are all older (1890s-1930s) and have LOT of copper pipes in the basements. Long story short, this guy hit at least two dozen homes in a 3 month span before they caught him. Turned out it was just a crackhead.

This is everywhere.

-Vacant homes.....easy to go in and rip 'em out
-Metal prices....very high
-Metal dealers......not asking where it's from and it's an automatic sale.

I can't tell you how many times we've got called to a home where the neighbor is calling because the vacant house next door has water coming out of the basement windows.(they don't shut the water off...just start ripping out.....this I don't get....they have to be getting soaked when they start ripping them out.)

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[jmood88]

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It's so funny that you mention that, as here in my neighborhood (Cleveland/Lakewood border area right by the lake) we had a guy breaking into homes and stealing all of the copper pipes out of basements. No lie, this guy didn't steal any TVs, stereos, jewelry, nothing but copper pipes. The houses in my neighborhood are all older (1890s-1930s) and have LOT of copper pipes in the basements. Long story short, this guy hit at least two dozen homes in a 3 month span before they caught him. Turned out it was just a crackhead.

[wildinkc]

I think if you live near a big metro area, the media just over does it on how bad the crime is. When I lived in Kentucky, they always talked about how bad crime was in Louisville, like you were gonna just get murdered walking to the Louisville slugger museum. Most of the bad crime happened in West Louisville.

Good point. I know the local media here sometimes try to make us sound worse than Chicago and East St louis.

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[JODYE]

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Camden has a higher violent crime rate, a higher murder rate, and a higher rape rate than both Detroit and Flint.

But you're right on Newark, it doesn't come close to any of the other three cities.

Yeah Camden might be the mecca of crime.

Newark, it depends on what part you are in. If you are in the Rutgers/NJIT college area on Central Park, it's fine (even though I've seen 2 people get robbed on campus) and Market/Broad street by the business district is cool but if you get down by Clinton Ave, and south, some parts might rival.

But yeah I don't think Newark actually tops Detroit though.

[Chaos81]

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Good point. I know the local media here sometimes try to make us sound worse than Chicago and East St louis.

Example #259 as to why I pay as much attention to our local media as I do the local media of the 9th biggest city in Rhode Island.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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[cjonesfan921]

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Newark and Paterson are not too bad. I grew up in Paterson, certain parts obviously have more gang related issues. I think you should be more worried if you end up in Irvington than in Newark.

[DamnYanks2]

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So what's the worst neighborhood ya'll have ended up in? I ended up in a place called Lamar, right out of Memphis, and I got lost trying to find my cousin's house. It was at night, I looked around and had a feeling I was not in a very safe area lol. Then my cousin tells me I was in like the worst part of Memphis, I don't know if he was overreacting or not.

[dickey1331]

Lower 9th ward in New Orleans. Stayed the night there a few times for work. I have a few interesting stories about that place.


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[kehlis]

So what's the worst neighborhood ya'll have ended up in? I ended up in a place called Lamar, right out of Memphis, and I got lost trying to find my cousin's house. It was at night, I looked around and had a feeling I was not in a very safe area lol. Then my cousin tells me I was in like the worst part of Memphis, I don't know if he was overreacting or not.

I made a wrong turn in Baltimore once. Couldn't tell you where but as someone who rarely gets scared, I rolled the windows up and locked the doors.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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So what's the worst neighborhood ya'll have ended up in? I ended up in a place called Lamar, right out of Memphis, and I got lost trying to find my cousin's house. It was at night, I looked around and had a feeling I was not in a very safe area lol. Then my cousin tells me I was in like the worst part of Memphis, I don't know if he was overreacting or not.

I grew up in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago, which for a while was known as a cop killing neighborhood to the point even the police or ambulances themselves didn't want to enter the neighborhood. It was so bad if you were shot, you were better off having somebody drive you to the hospital because they would get you there before the police and ambulance showed up to the scene.

Also been to Cabrini Green projects, Ida B. Wells Projects, Henry Horner Projects and Rockwell Gardens Projects in Chicago dozens of times visiting relatives. Cabrini Green was the worse. They literally had people on the upper floors of the projects shooting at people in the streets and court yard with guns on a regular basis at rival gang members. It was weird because each gang had their own building and was just separated by court yards. So these idiots was shooting across from building to building sometimes. Graffiti was every where outside the building and inside the building. Hallways, stair cases and elevator stayed smelling like piss. And the elevator was out of order most of the damn time.

Every time I went to one of the projects it was always no less then 4 or 5 drive bys while I was there. Couldn't even sit in the living room at all or near any window. Police never entered the projects unless it was 50 or more of them together. But the projects was so damn big and they had look outs every where, police success rate for capturing the person they were looking for was very low.

Projects might as well be called hell, because that is exactly what it felt like. Seen dead body chalk lines all over grounds outside and on the floors throughout the hallways. Bullet holes all throughout the outside walls of the buildings, bullet holes in the walls inside of the buildings as well. And what was even more sad was little kids use to lay down in the dead body chalk outline and say look at me, I got caught slipping and they blasted my ***.

Growing up in the hood I learned at a fairly young age if you ever hear somebody yell out blah blah KILLER, hit the deck right then and there because they about to start blasting.

So yeah my neighborhood was terrible, but those projects was a living hell.

[DamnYanks2]

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I made a wrong turn in Baltimore once. Couldn't tell you where but as someone who rarely gets scared, I rolled the windows up and locked the doors.

Yea, there are alot of wrong turns you can make in Baltimore, I actually have a cousin who lives in Ellicot city, and we would go to Baltimore often, and man, it can get rough quick in that city.

I grew up in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago, which for a while was known as a cop killing neighborhood to the point even the police or ambulances themselves didn't want to enter the neighborhood. It was so bad if you were shot, you were better off having somebody drive you to the hospital because they would get you there before the police and ambulance showed up to the scene.

Also been to Cabrini Green projects, Ida B. Wells Projects, Henry Horner Projects and Rockwell Gardens Projects in Chicago dozens of times visiting relatives. Cabrini Green was the worse. They literally had people on the upper floors of the projects shooting at people in the streets and court yard with guns on a regular basis at rival gang members. It was weird because each gang had their own building and was just separated by court yards. So these idiots was shooting across from building to building sometimes. Graffiti was every where outside the building and inside the building. Hallways, stair cases and elevator stayed smelling like piss. And the elevator was out of order most of the damn time.

Every time I went to one of the projects it was always no less then 4 or 5 drive bys while I was there. Couldn't even sit in the living room at all or near any window. Police never entered the projects unless it was 50 or more of them together. But the projects was so damn big and they had look outs every where, police success rate for capturing the person they were looking for was very low.

Projects might as well be called hell, because that is exactly what it felt like. Seen dead body chalk lines all over grounds outside and on the floors throughout the hallways. Bullet holes all throughout the outside walls of the buildings, bullet holes in the walls inside of the buildings as well. And what was even more sad was little kids use to lay down in the dead body chalk outline and say look at me, I got caught slipping and they blasted my ***.

Growing up in the hood I learned at a fairly young age if you ever hear somebody yell out blah blah KILLER, hit the deck right then and there because they about to start blasting.

So yeah my neighborhood was terrible, but those projects was a living hell.

Damn, that is insane, lucky you survived that man.

[TheMatrix31]

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Bro got off the wrong exit as we were on our way to a Yankees/A's game in Oakland. Don't know the exact name of the neighborhood, but I was ****ing terrified.

Also, once my Dad and I were driving to some gas station he was thinking of buying, ended up driving through Compton/Watts area. Yeah, that was bad too. We drove past the gas station and I turn to my Dad, I was just like "Forget it, just get on the damn freeway and let's get the hell outta here."

[wildinkc]

It was just this last August but I was in philadelphia for work I was on my way to the airport and for some reason my gps had me take nothing but side streets from Villenova all the way to the aiport. As I was getting closer and closer to the airport the neighborhoods were getting scarier and scarier. It was getting to the point I started running all the red lights. I can handle alot because of the area I work at in KC but even those neighborhoods were to much for me I had never been so scared in my life. I was so happy when I finally made it to the airport.

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