Personally, since I live in Albuquerque, I consider Bohan the Southeast heights (If you live in Albuquerque you will know what I am talking about). The southeast heights in Albuquerque is like the Bronx in NYC. Look up Southeast Heights Albuquerque Crime for me info.

This has been a fascinating, illuminating and somewhat alarming read chaps! Appreciate your input about the various places where you live and know of... funny to think that here in little old New Zealand in Huntly (about 100km south of Auckland) we still dont lock our doors at night half the time and leave the car unlocked outside!

 

Cheers for all the comments thus far!

The area where I live we were able to do that, not lock our doors that is. Now we have had 1 murder and two assaults in my little neighborhood. I also made a topic about the second place I live, Göteborg borough "Backa". Several shootings last year, most were gang related. So you don't always have to go far away from home to find the crime, usually crime finds you. 

Washington DC also has a lot of crime; I've heard it called the "murder capital of the US" as well (being the *actual* capital of the US probably contributes to that as well, though).

It was called so in the 1980's. Crack epidemic hit hard there. Apparently now is Chicago.

Where I live in the greater Stockholm area (Storstockholm) there's not too much crime. We've had some burglaries and muggins but that's about it. However, we do have some nasty places in Stockholm where there's murders, gang shootings, rioting etc.

However, it's not a dangerous place to live in, might not want to be a tourist and go to some of the places, but it's fairly safe.

 

Sidenote: We have a third ( 1/3 ) of the whole Swedish police force in Stockholm. Around 10 000 officers (of app 30 000) for (app) 2.2 million people. Which is enough for us. We could use some more patrol officers to reduce the response time but that's about it.

Oh my goodness! Our police dont even carry guns here! Its wierd to hear you say you had your .45 with you all the time! So foreign to us in the land downunder!

 

I guess what we see on the movies then is not so far form the truth!

 

One question... have you ever had to use the gun at all?

 

In Michigan it's legal to have a concealed weapon, as long as your licensed to carry, which is easy to get in this state, as long as no criminal record.  Of course I'm clean, not even a drunk driving...nothing.

 

The only time I pulled it out, is when some yahoo ran up to my car with a hammer, while I was headed to work.  I put the weapon on my lap, locked and loaded.  When he approached my car, he seen the big assed .45 Colt, and turned around and ran off.  I used to work for a title co in the mid-nineties, so I was all over the city of Detroit during those days.

 

It's truly a shithole in the D, very dangerous, don't let anybody tell you different.  Only the New Center, Marshes Park, Comerica park and Greektown (kind of) areas are OK.

 

BTW:  I don't live in Detroit, thank god!  I'm in Birmingham, very wealthy part of the Detroit northern suburbs, where you can leave your doors unlocked and enjoy a nice walk into downtown Birmingham at anytime of day or night without worry.  Just use to spend time in the hood when I was a young buck.

 

DrDetroit

Edited January 14, 201412 yr by drdetroit

South Bohan is South Bronx, Chase Point is Hunts Point (41st PCT which was called Fort Apache) and so on. Back in the 60s-90s it was a real shithole with murder rate as high as 100/100.000 residents (this is NO joke, almost 2x todays max for USA). I believe there's no place today you can compare to SoBx in 70s, Chicago's bad, Flint's bad, New Orlean's bad but Bronx was a total catastrophy 'cause of different reasons of it's problems. There's no better example for an urbad decay and planned shrinkage than Bronx.

 

You can see it here:

 

and here: (be conscious some scenes may be rough)

 

 

You can read some stories from real cops who worked there:

http://theerant.yuku.com/topic/45519/The-REAL-Fort-Apache#.UtVlUPTuL3M

http://theerant.yuku.com/topic/8674/-properly-disarm-EDP-Fort-Apache-style-video#.UtVl6vTuL3M

it sounds unbelievable but thats all true

 

photos:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=90954450@N05&q=bronx

 

I'll try to post some more later.

Edited January 14, 201412 yr by AdamP

Surprised nobody has mentioned Laredo yet.

 

Surprised nobody has mentioned Laredo yet.

 

I use 'blast from the past' and I beat ya.

 

God, I'm glad I live in a small village where everyone knows everyone.

 

The worst crime here was a burglary! 

AdamP nailed it. NYC was ROUGH back in the day. Now it's more tourist-trappy, but as has been stated there are still some areas that most would consider "rough". Parts of East New York spring to mind.

 

NYC has quite an interesting history as far as crime goes. Was a real hellhole, and before Giuliani moved in (correct me if I'm wrong), Times Square (yes, the home of Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve), otherwise known as "the Triangle", was actually not much more than a thriving red light district. Prostitutes, brothels, strip clubs, hard drugs, everywhere. You would walk down the streets and find all sorts of nasty stuff - used condoms, baggies, needles. 

 

Then Giuliani cracked down hard on all that stuff, literally physically moved all the crackheads and homeless up north, and completely re-gentrified the whole city.

 

Now, as a result of the polishing of NYC, a lot of the serious crime and gang violence has moved to the suburbs. I'd like to introduce you guys to a little town called "Newburgh, NY".

 

It's basically the modern equivalent of the 70's/80's Bronx. It's a small town just north of NYC a ways and it's home to some of the highest crime rates in the whole country. It's also the murder capital of NY. Some census sites rank it in the top 10 worst places to be - not surprising due to the saturation of gang members and vastly understaffed police force. From the outside, it looks like a typical quaint riverside village, but you have a one in SEVENTEEN chance of being a victim of a crime there just by walking down the street. Things have gotten so bad that the FBI has actually had to come in and help out.

 

Do a Google search of Newburgh, NY if you'd like to know more.

AdamP nailed it. NYC was ROUGH back in the day. Now it's more tourist-trappy, but as has been stated there are still some areas that most would consider "rough". Parts of East New York spring to mind.

 

NYC has quite an interesting history as far as crime goes. Was a real hellhole, and before Giuliani moved in (correct me if I'm wrong), Times Square (yes, the home of Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve), otherwise known as "the Triangle", was actually not much more than a thriving red light district. Prostitutes, brothels, strip clubs, hard drugs, everywhere. You would walk down the streets and find all sorts of nasty stuff - used condoms, baggies, needles. 

 

Then Giuliani cracked down hard on all that stuff, literally physically moved all the crackheads and homeless up north, and completely re-gentrified the whole city.

 

Now, as a result of the polishing of NYC, a lot of the serious crime and gang violence has moved to the suburbs. I'd like to introduce you guys to a little town called "Newburgh, NY".

 

It's basically the modern equivalent of the 70's/80's Bronx. It's a small town just north of NYC a ways and it's home to some of the highest crime rates in the whole country. It's also the murder capital of NY. Some census sites rank it in the top 10 worst places to be - not surprising due to the saturation of gang members and vastly understaffed police force. From the outside, it looks like a typical quaint riverside village, but you have a one in SEVENTEEN chance of being a victim of a crime there just by walking down the street. Things have gotten so bad that the FBI has actually had to come in and help out.

 

Do a Google search of Newburgh, NY if you'd like to know more.

 

wow, that's a really intresting story, thanks for sharing! As for Newburgh, I've never heard of it. Sounds really scary, and of course, I had to google it. Guess what came up on pictures as one of the first pictures?

 

 

Hope that they manage to clean up that town/little gangster city.

I think it will be really hard to clean up a borough that is pretty much infested with crime. Same goes with any boroughs that has this problem. 

CG Blaze, you made a great introduction there to another video I want to show you:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELSjqEZHk6k

 

what you got here is a short story of NYC crime, simply a package of information including criminals' colorful descriptions of their life and crime stats that you won't find anywhere else (eg. 41:56 - '88 NYC Homicide rate for 15-24yo blk m = 220.6/100k! Most ridiculous numbers I've ever seen.).

Worth to see if you're interested!

 

I'm planning to add some more stories from SoBx but I'm suffering from serious lack of free time right now...

Edited January 14, 201412 yr by AdamP

There is in Michigan.

 

It's called Detroit .

Flint too.

 

Also a place called Gary Indiana which is even worst lol.

Type of crime is important too, as discussed earlier. Violent crime is what I'm most concerned with in a city. My town has property crime, usually break-ins to unoccupied houses, very very few confrontational robberies or assaults or murders. But even quiet places can have those problems, just not as 'en masse' as other cities.