Comments on: America’s most dangerous neighborhoods

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:39:00 +0000

When a friend of mine traveled to Miami recently, a Miamian created a map just like that for her. I wish I had one when I went to visit, but luckily, nothing happened to me.

By: Coleen Monroe

Coleen Monroe — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:51:00 +0000

Nonconstructive fearmongering that comes from poor sampling. Each new study is different and shows different statistics because it focuses on a different data set.

Reality needs describing, thickly. Maybe sites like Matador could try to recruit people to profile their cities/neighborhoods instead of relying on these dodgy numbers?

http://www.reverseretrograde.wordpress.com

By: Coleen Monroe

Coleen Monroe — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:51:00 +0000

Nonconstructive fearmongering that comes from poor sampling. Each new study is different and shows different statistics because it focuses on a different data set.

Reality needs describing, thickly. Maybe sites like Matador could try to recruit people to profile their cities/neighborhoods instead of relying on these dodgy numbers?

http://www.reverseretrograde.wordpress.com

By: TIM SINESE

TIM SINESE — Sun, 15 May 2011 01:50:17 +0000

I AM FROM THE KENSINGTON SECTION OF PHILADELPHIA,SO I KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT TOUGH HOODS,ALL I WANT TO SAY IS IF YOU GOT DROPPED OFF IN ANY INNER CITY GHETTO WOULD IT REALLY MATTER WHAT NAME IT WENT BY OR ITS GEOLOGICAL LOCATION.

By: Marsha

Marsha — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:25:28 +0000

I think lists like this are productive. As you say, people traveling around will find out one way or another. Better to find out in a list, than unwittingly, in a personal situation you are not prepared to deal with.

This was tried in the metropolitan Miami area back in the 1980′s, where someone created a map “redlining” bad neighborhoods, as a warning to tourists. However, someone decided the map was unfair to the neighborhoods, and it was finally banned. How the banning was possible, I do not understand.

Crime statistics are crime statistics. I’m sorry people in those neighborhoods if that offends you. The unopposed violence that continues to go on in your neighborhoods offends me, and I don’t want to be a part of it. Better if I know about it, and avoid these hot spots, which would not keep me from visiting the rest of, say Cincinnati, for example.

By: jarard micvee

jarard micvee — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:03:57 +0000

this is quite obsurd to me. i grew up in the calliope projects where there were killings after killings day by day. kids i knew had guns before they turned ten and we all got tats as soon as we could to represent our area. there was nothing positive that came from here and all my friends were either killed or in pison before the age 25. they torn down the cp3 along with many other projects such as the magnolia after i was locked up and if it wasnt for me getting locked up i probrably wouldnt of been here today. its nothing pure out there but the intent to kill for your brothers and hustle for your bread. my mother only paid about 30 dollars a month to live there and there wasnt one night that you wouldnt hear gun blasts. i last went there in 2006 and it seemed just like it had always was if not worse. whenever i go to see my fam it reminds me and shows me that there is nothing to live for here, its like africa but i would say more violent if you knew what we saw. ill say it till the day i die, i live in atlanta now and ive never seen anything like home and i dont believe anywhere in america would ever compare to the struggles of the 3rd ward new orleans, it will always be the murder capital till its all gone something i believe no matter how bad will be sad for all us 3rd ward creoles to say goodbye too.

By: Gabriela Garcia

Gabriela Garcia — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:04:42 +0000

I agree with Julie’s points above…I also think it’s important to utilize common sense and take safety precautions no matter where you are, while still keeping an open mind and realizing that the majority of people you encounter, including in the poorest neighborhoods, aren’t violent criminals.

By: Sylvie Laitre

Sylvie Laitre — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:22:46 +0000

Although this article is written about the US, it hits home with me and how Mexico has been suffering from media portraying it as a dangerous country as a whole. Generalizations are never good and in our case, have been highly detrimental to the Mexican tourism industry.

I do have to wonder how effective these lists can be though—even over here. Would travelers really differentiate or still see a name and assume that everything linked to it is dangerous? Perhaps, as Carlo says, it might prompt officials to clean up but that’s really the only benefit I can see from here.

By: Carlo

Carlo — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:45:22 +0000

And besides that, you always have the Red Wings! Well, except for last year…

By: elisa

elisa — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:35:41 +0000

Julie, Detroit is far from abandoned. We’ve just been struggling with one of the most corrupt city governments in decades and we’re coming back in a big way. Detroit is a city that’s been badly mistreated but is now (in my opnion) resting in good hands.