Comments on: Most Dangerous US Cities: 2007 Edition

By: jerry from manhattan

jerry from manhattan — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:51:56 +0000

wow I cant believe NYC is 237, depends on where you are I guess… Orlando was the big surprise, is that really possible? Compared to Miami? Hm. Strange list. Detroit looks so strange and uninhabited, where do people actually live? Theyve cleared huge sections of it, blocks and blocks of grass, but cross ONE street (forget the name) and you are in posh Grosse Point which didnt even make the list. Blink and the whole scene changes, and there dont seem to be any cops in Grosse Point. It’s south of 8 mile, so technically I think it’s a neighborhood in Detroit. It’s posh like Greenwich CT, no gates on the windows or anything. You may as well be 100 miles from anything ‘urban’… very strange. Detroit proper is finished. They are bull-dozing it I think and replacing it with something else. It was an ugly city to begin with I think. Philadelphia FEELS more dangerous, in a way, because you can easily be victimized in a nice area, nothing unusual. The nice areas are dangerous, thats what gives the perception of Philly being worse than DC, for instance. NW DC has no crime at all. They should do crime rates by zip code.

By: eric

eric — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:34:46 +0000

Man I live in kc the worst trin to live in all this shit how about we figure a way 2 stop it

By: ihatethespurs

ihatethespurs — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:32:42 +0000

orlando, thats a joke, tampa and miami are three times as bad as orlando, and should be in the top ten

By: Boss Dogg

Boss Dogg — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:34:48 +0000

I would say it go like this!
1. Detroit
2. St. Louis
3. Philadelphia
4. New Orleans
5. Memphis
6. Atlanta
7. Kansas City
8. Dallas
9. Baltimore
10. DONT GET CAUGHT SLIPPIN N NONE OF THESE CITIES
10#

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:23:20 +0000

Mike-Well, southerners have always said “the south will rise again!” hehe

By: mike

mike — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:25:00 +0000

I’m also very surprised to see how much the southern cities have moved up on the list!

By: mike

mike — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:20:19 +0000

No problem, I was born and still live in Jersey City, New Jersey, but the differences in crime between Canada and the United States in my opinion is influenced by the demographics of each country, and that’s why I think the United States has more dangerous cities then Canada.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:03:26 +0000

Hey Mike, you don’t often here New Jersey and diverse in the same sentence, hehe.

But yeah those lists are misleading because they exclude small dangerous areas like the ones you mentioned.

Thanks for the interesting and informative comment.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:04:16 +0000

New Jersey has to be one of the most diverse states, home to some of the safest (Brick, Toms River, Edison) towns, and some of the most dangerous (Camden, Newark, Jersey City) cities in the country, although their are alot more dangerous cities in New Jersey which are unknown to those who are not natives of the state because they were not ranked in the Morgan Quinto list due to population which did not exceed 75,000, cities like Irvington – which had a murderate eight times the national average, and East Oranges another highly dangerous town, both of these towns neighbor Newark.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:53:34 +0000

Bryan-Yes, some cities on the list are surprises. It makes sense for criminals to move to Orlando though (at least temporarily) because Orlando gets 55 million visitors a year. More than anyplace on Earth! Lots of potential victims of scams, hotel break ins, etc.

And yes, sometimes the people who try to escape the problems of wherever they come from wind up bringing those same problems to their new home.