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"Baltimore, I never would have guessed!"
Americans: lol wat - - I'd have been surprised if it wasn't #1
Chicago is a warzone
My thoughts exactly. I got fam there. It aint coo
As a Canadian, I’d have thought Chicago would be #1. The shit I’ve been seeing and hearing about the south side of Chicago is ridiculous
Not an American but I was not surprised either, cause there must be a reason why TV shows like The Wire and Homicide were set there.
@@MM-jc7uv it should be #1 no doubt but I'm not sure why it's not
Even we Americans know about the knife problem in the UK. There are usually news stories on that.
@L M Even as an American I've never heard of any news source saying that. However I did hear that the Elderly get a certain amount of free prostitutes a year or something similar
@@unshakensalsa6220 That’s pretty dope
@L M they don't "often" do news stories on the Netherlands. I've never heard a news story about the Netherlands...ever 😂
@L M BS
In America we have guns. In the UK you have acid, knives, cars, bombs. Its not the tool, its the person.
You can take one thing away but people will use other things for violence.
I’m from Detroit and the auto industry is still here. And yes, it depends on where you are. I feel very safe in midtown.
Agreed. My old man lived near VanDyke and Kerchevel and I still felt safe.
I'm in Saint Clair Shores now, but I miss living in Midtown going to the Bronx and chilling at Marcus Market.
You always say gotta stay alert in Detroit
At the end of the day, it depends on what neighborhood you're in.
@@moorekeicephillips don’t forget “mind your business and go about your day”
About 5 years ago while living in Baltimore, on a single weekend there were murders in four different homes on my street and the block behind my house. My home was surrounded by a batch of murders. In the home that was on the street behind my home, three people were murdered. The other three homes had single murders. All in one weekend. And that whole weekend, my kids drew on the sidewalk outside. 🤷♀️
Creepy!
We just had an arsonist like yesterday
Didn't kill anyone but he set a house on fire, 3 houses being built, some pallets and tires outside a store, 3 cars at the courthouse and I think something else all in one day haha
@@gimpyrules6714 There was this one home that used to always get burned down right up the street from my old house. Extreme makeover home edition eventually came and turned it into a group home.
Is this a cryptic confession....?
@Ben Law LMFAO! 🤣
I'm from the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas, lived here my whole life, and its usually only dangerous if you are personally involved in drugs or human smuggling. The majority of the time its relatively safe for us locals.
isnt it still dangerous to live in a area of human smugglers? because most of the time they dont care who they smuggle, so any innocent bystander could be a victim
@@ernestogastelum9123 Well yes, but it's more organized down here. If that makes sense. Like I dont have to worry about getting a stray bullet from 2 guys shooting at each other over shirt colors, BUT I do have to worry about going to a BBQ at a friend of a friends house that I dont know, because one of them might be a part of that lifestyle, and you'd never know because its like 95% Hispanics down here. Then you end up being raided, and half the ppl at said BBQ end up being illegals.
@@ernestogastelum9123 People involved in that type of crime stay away and out of sight from the public.
@@ernestogastelum9123 I think he meant people smuggling in the sense of the people coming from the border getting smuggled in illegally rio grande valley is right on the Border so drugs get smuggled and people get smuggled in
Mardi Gras is great! Don't spend your whole time partying. Take a swamp tour, check out the graveyards but go with a tour.
I’d live in NO if it weren’t for that godawful weather. I like just about everything else about that city,
@@carowells1607 Yeah, I wouldn’t recommend going during the summer because of the heat. But if you ever plan on going back, go during the fall or early spring because it’s usually dry and not too hot.
The last time I went I wasn’t able to go on the swamp tour, so that is first on my list for next time! I had one of those ‘I’ll never drink again,’ experiences. Lol.
Yeah sorry that's a really shitty sell. go check out the swamps and the graveyards?
As someone who lives in NJ, I like that Daz always comments on the state from his time living in the US.
Sucks to see an NJ city on the list, Newark is definitely improving though, takes time.
Same thing. New Brunswick represent.
@@larrymcjones yo I live right outside of new Brunswick
Rutgers Business School represent 🤝
I lived on Rutgers campus in the castle building in Camden for a year.
I hear that too although I haven’t been to Newark since late 2019, I actually worked at the cvs across the street from the schools stadium on Bloomfield ave. Left soon after it was held up. When I first moved there, we lived on S 16th and a month in SWAT busted down the door in the middle of the night looking for our neighbors.
When you consider there are over 270,000,000 guns in the USA the amount of people killed by someone with a gun is very pretty small. In other words the massive majority of gun owners are not out their killing people. Lot's of the murders are also drug or gang related which is a whole different issue that can't seemed to be solved by the political officials/policies and communities where this is happening. Keep doing/supporting the same things with the same results. Also the amount of suicides by gun play into the numbers as well.
That's an issue I had with the narrator of this video, making it seem like Japan's lack of guns, not the fact that they're one of the most homogenous nations on earth, is why their murder rate is so low.
@@lasagnasux4934 Yes, the Japanese culture is a huge factor.
@Ernie B Yeah, he kinda disproved his own point lol
@Ernie B lol.
lmao.
There has to be more than that. Most people I know who have guns, myself included, own more than one. Plus unregistered family heirlooms to be considered.
Baltimore resident here. They actually went through with those surveillance planes. Except the city couldn't pay for them, so they got a private investor from Texas to fund the helicopters. I could hear them constantly this summer and fall just sitting in my living room. The contract was only for 6 months, and they decided not to renew it. Thank god.
Otherwise, yeah the city is dangerous. But like you guys said, it's a lot to do with poverty and a lack of public services. Also there has been so much corruption in our leadership over the years. The little money this city has isn't going to the right place and the citizens suffer. As long as you're not stupid (ie. don't walk anywhere alone at night, act like you know where you're going) you probably won't get robbed. There's just certain neighborhoods you know not to go into.
Agreed, I love Baltimore, it’s a lor just gotta know how to carry yourself
Baltimore resident here too. The spy planes were definitely not what I was expecting. They sold it as some high tech device, and I admit I didn't look into it too well, I was expecting some type of drone type thing. I think they over promised and under delivered on that one. It was like a 1960s private plane! And whenever it flew over, my internet would slow down.
Morgan State grad here and you’re absolutely right. I had to learn where to go, and realized there were times where I was in a place I shouldn’t have been. You got to make the right friends so you know where you are, and what not to do.
If u wanna go to any city its completely fine as long as you dont get too drunk late at night. Go home around 12 and be with friends and its fine.
And avoid rough areas
Ehhh not really lol
@@gimpyrules6714 where do u think is dangerous? I feel like ive been to some of these places. Worst in my opinion was memphis, seemed like people were kinda looking for confrontation. But nothing remotely bad happened.
@@chroniccomplainer3792 any city for the most part lol
Any place there are animals its dangerous
And before you say something stupid, I referring to people as well, we are animals as well, humans are not some special being
@@aj897 just don’t be stupid and watch yourself and you should be okay.
In America we have guns. In the UK you have acid, knives, cars, bombs. Its not the tool, its the person.
You can take one thing away but people will use other tools for violence.
I believe we should start accepting the fact that we are animals, then test, in public view, who still behaves with complete animal aggression. Then correct their behaviors accordingly.
Exactly.
@ ro he
I don’t see any dogs or cats building skyscrapers. It’s literally people who say that people are animals and NOT human that are deranged and disconnected from reality. Bad things happen, bad people do exist. Wow. But by lumping everyone together you’re just making a bigger mess.
Um wrong, did you watch the video. There were over 400 mass shootings and over half of homicides were related to firearms. The U.S.'s crime rate is well above the UK's per capita.
@@ericmanget4280 "UM WRONG" stfu kid. If you compare deaths by firearms (32,000 a year) to doctors and drugs (almost 800k) its not even close. Guns are no where near the top the list of our problems. They just try to make it seem like it is. Its not. You wanna compare gun deaths and vehicular deaths next to prove my point again?
If you go looking for trouble pretty much anywhere, you will find it!
A person can be in the right place but at the wrong time.
And you don't have to look very far.
True but some places it’s more common than others
Like most people and racism now a days. Just thinking of how many jokes from even 10 years ago wouldn’t fly today...
In some of these places, trouble finds you.
As a french (i mean as a non US citizen ) i'm surprised you didn't know about Baltimore's rate crimes...It last since about 15+ years and it has always been in the "Top" 3 of this ranking... Its decaying houses are worst than those of Detroit...You should watch the TV show "The Wire" !!! It takes place in Baltimore...A pure masterpiece...:-).
There was another show on HBO in the early 2000s called 'The Corner." It displayed the height of the heroin epidemic in Baltimore.
@@michaelmachupa3854 Thanks for the advice Michael. I really loved the Wire so i'll take a look at The Corner...:-). Thanks again.
@TheManMan What does this have to do with the fact he didn't know what is the real situation in Baltimore ?? And for your information, there's nothing like that in France...Some Baltimore areas looks like worst than Syrian or Afghanistan ones and we're speaking about a developed country in peace... so keep your "thoughts" for you.
@@michaelmachupa3854 Hi Michael. I just finished to watch it and that's really an awesome show...I cried at the very end when we finally see the real characters (Fran, DeAndre, Tyreeka and Blue...). A very emotional ending...Many thanks again for the advice :-). Cheers from France. (PS: I'm going to watch Homicide: A life on the streets...).
Last 15+ years. No that's wrong Baltimore has been that way since i was born and that was in 1980😂
New Orleans born and raised! Les Go Louisiana! - . -
My God I can't stand the dude who did that video's voice.
me too
yeah he seemed like he was making fun of the cities
Yes, annoying all around
And worse yet he’s cherry-picking data too.
@@Ryan-sb5pc Agreed...it is suspect.
I’m from Maryland but the Baltimore Harbor is nice go deeper in the city you’ll see
Even the harbor area isn’t that great anymore. We had a hotel near the ballpark and a dude got stabbed out front while we were there for a day.
Yeah, go deeper into the city. Sounds like a safe option. 🙄
@@CharlieRogers50 lol my guy I am not walking dem streets
There has never been worse advice than this
It’s hilarious that all the replies to this are pretty much: “umm no”
I’ve lived in St. Louis my whole life and worked downtown for years and loved it. I never had an issue other than persistent panhandlers. It’s almost all fine until you go north of Washington Ave. Some of south St. Louis is getting a bit worse. I’ve always been told to “avoid the State streets” in south St. Louis (named after each of the States). A vast majority of murders are in those small areas though. “East St. Louis” is the most dangerous area but it’s technically across the river in Illinois.
I, a white male, have lived on one of those state streets (Louisiana) for 12 years and never had a problem, also partied in East St Louis without incident (Illinois has the best bars and clubs with less restrictions, MO is still sexually immature) I think the local media is biased against POC and places a lot of blame where it should not be. I have never had any problems in what the media calls "danger zones".
@@shanehorvath9711 I hear what you’re saying. There is definitely bias, but there’s no denying the statistical fact that a vast majority of violent crimes happen in those areas.
@@johng38 True but a majority of those violent crimes are targeted and specific, very few of them are random. If you're not involved in drugs or trafficking you will most likely not be a target of violence. The most that I've ever experienced is petty theft from a car break in, which is a nuisance, but I didn't lose my life.
I lived in El Paso for three years when I was in the army. It's actually one of the safest big cities in America
Yeah. It's usually up there with Honolulu.
Im from Baltimore, and it is bad, people here dont have any respect for police or their own neighborhood, its not just one or two bad parts, it’s literally the whole city. The poverty and gang rates are through the roof and its not likely to change
My sister used travel around the south a lot and she said that Baton Rouge is the scariest place she’s ever been. Lol she described it like the setting of a horror movie 😂
Baltimore is intense. A few years back I was taking a train from there to D.C. and the train had to stop because a ladies body was on the tracks.
The population of New York City is bigger than LA, Chicago, and Miami combined...It's actually super safe for the most part. Idk the statistics this year, but for a city with it's population density, it's safe. It wasn't always.
The tourist attraction areas of virtually every city are safe.
True. Tourist areas are safer in America then in a lot of European cities. Not as many pickpockets and stuff
You're liable to get into trouble when you make a "wrong turn" into a bad neighborhood...by accident or on purpose.
Not Baltimore.
@@aj897 the bottom of the ocean is local attraction here lol 🤣
Not STL
Dave's secretly been binging on Garth Brooks music... "Callin' Baton Rouge"
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“That looks grim”. Lol. It looks like every small town in south central Pennsylvania.
Well i mean with handguns.... one night at a dinner with my 13 friends 4 ladies and 9 men between us all we had 8 guns on us. Two of the ladies were carrying. And we are all Educated upper middle class of mixed races. Its a different world here.
Detroit wasn't always what it is today. It actually was one of the largest cities by population and area (still is, the city limits are massive) and was one of if not the most prosperous metropolitan areas in the world. Standard of living was very high. The area relied heavily on the booming auto and manufacturing industries post WW2. Due to an economic downturn that hit the city's industry extremely hard and social strife (can't think of a better term currently) Detroit experienced an immediate and hard fall from grace. The majority of the millions that lived in Detroit opted to move out from the city and into its suburbs taking business, jobs and tax revenue out of the city. It's been an empty shell of itself since. It has seen some resurgence as of late but Covid likely has put that progress back years.
Edit: Fun fact: With Detroit and Flint, (located basically dead center of the lower peninsula of Michigan) Michigan is sometimes referred to as the Murder Mitten, mostly by Michiganders, due to its shape and proficiency of having cities with high murder rates. Flint used to be a top 10 city for murders when Detroit was holding strong at no.1 for many years. Flint shared a similar fate to Detroit in regards to its own decline.
I live in PG county MD which I south of baltimore. If you have to go to baltimore stay very close to the harbor or stay on campus. The second you go 1 block too far you are in the danger zone. I went to Morgan state and one day me and 2 of my friends wanted to go to the grocery store one block off campus and we were robbed.
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@@scorpiothegreat1 yessir!!!
MSU grad here!!! Same! I had to learn where to go, and who to go with, too. Don’t tell me you got robbed at that northwood shopping center! That place was close, but always sketchy. I used to go there all the time, but stopped once I finally got a car. Oh, and I’m from PG, too! What’s up???
@@Ivy94F lmao of course. Save-A-Lot and Sunnys for the chicken boxes. Sometimes you had to take a chance lol
biggest problem here in the U.S. is the breakdown of the family structure.
Same in the UK
100% agreed. Social Media, giving kids phones, and parents ignoring kids for their own dopamine chasing on phones etc is a huge contributing factor to that.
@@Marthyboy88 where was social media in the 70-90s when the murder rate was by far the highest? It’s not family values bullshit it’s poverty, which is why the murder rate is basically a 1 to 1 ratio with bad economic outcomes
@@callowaymotorcompany Agreed. - I mean, there certainly is a factor of people not having a lot of guidance in-home growing up, but that's usually because of a parent either not working, or working too much. Both signs of trying to escape poverty. I speak on the shit from experience. It all comes back down to all of us trying to do better for ourselves. And when people get too sick of shit, sometimes they just wake up and choose violence. - All it takes is one bad day.
Amen.
I am from no.8, Memphis, and now live in no.6, New Orleans. Most of what he said is true. I know how to walk down what streets and where not to go at certain times, but I ALWAYS give a heads up when I pass drunk (and sober) tourists in certain areas at certain times -"stop looking at your phone and take those beads off, you WILL get robbed." I've had my fair share of attacks/confrontations in both cities. Homicides might be down but I still hear gunshots most nights and just two weekends ago I could see the body of a gunshot victim from my balcony in the Treme. Admittedly, New Orleans can be scary but I wouldn't live anywhere else, I've tried!! I've been here ten years, left for a year but came right back. Like Tennessee Williams said "Everywhere else is Cleveland.". Y'all come visit! You're not LIKELY to die, cross my heart :)
I live on the Mississippi coast. I travel to New Orleans several times a year for concerts. I love that place.
I grew up in South Baltimore and it has always been a very rough city. Violence has always been something there. I was in many altercations in my younger days. I got out by joining the military. Haven said this, Maryland and parts of Baltimore are awesome and great places are abundant. Just like any place, you'll know when you are in the wrong place very easily, so GTF out ASAP!
I am born and raised from Chicago, Little Village and I can say it is extremely safe for tourists even 26th street. Chicago has a murder rate from 500-800 a year but it's all gang related. If you're a gangbanger or looking for trouble then you will be shot, murdered or go to prison(I spent almost 11 years in prison). 26th street has the best Mexican food, pizza(Home Run Inn, Lou Malnati's, Pizza Nova, etc) and so much more.
Watch “The Wire” it’s about Baltimore and accurate as hell.
In most big cities in the US, well-to-do people have abandoned the "inner city" for the suburbs or what you might call bedroom communities. This is unique among advanced countries. New York seems to be an exception.
That was in the 1950’s... most cities now are becoming gentrified, and all the poor people are being pushed out of the inner city
@@HBC423 exactly! Oakland is a prime example of this.
@@rlbrooksssg my city of Chattanooga has become hipster central and it’s becoming too expensive to live in.. same thing down the road in Atlanta
Mostly thanks to Trump bringing the rich back into the city and their efforts to cleanup the place.
@@ViolentKisses87 no... just no
Baltimore is no joke. I've visited fam there. I know exactly where he was talking about and that area ain't what comes to mind once you really see Baltimore for the first time.
We have this same phenomenon in St. Louis where people say "Noo not my city! That murder wasn't really a murder. It was something else and has a whole reason behind it!" Or they say gang shootings don't count because it's between them and has nothing to do with the city.
Well, the fact is it happened in our city. And it will happen again.
The Lower 9th ward has never recovered from Katrina, mainly because it affected poor Black people. Some people came back after Katrina to find their homes and land sold out from under them.
As someone from Detroit, I just have to say population is steadying off and more people are moving into Detroit and its seen a major investment over the past few years from Local millionaires, yes the crime rates are still bad but he should have talked about whats being done about it like the other cities he mentions changes. BTW love you guys, the banter is mainly why I watch your videos, LOVE FROM DETROIT
I’ve been to Memphis, it’s probably one of the scariest cities in the US, but GREAT BBQ.
Memphis born and raised here and you hear a murders every day on the news even some down street in low income apartment but we haven’t experienced any violence lived where I live now since 1966-67. And you could throw rock and hit a bbq place I think it’s a food group.
You could get good bbq anywhere, not just Memphganistan
So . . . I'm from Memphis, and watching this video made me want to do a little research to see if my city was doing better during the pandemic or was the curve steadily rising, and according to the research I did, Memphis went from 191 homicides in 2019, to OVER 330 homicides in 2020. . . WOW!
I live in Missouri about 60 miles west of St.Louis and I've actually lived in north St.Louis from 2001 to 2004 and as bad as they say north county is the east side is way worse. There are actually signs in some places as you enter the east side that say "E. St.Louis, 31600"
That is spot on with your assessment of the motor city. Detroit and Cleveland and Pittsburgh are all part of what's now referred to as the Rust Belt. Cars and steel used to be made there. Barely 1/10 of what used to exist in terms of employment still exists.
From Saint Louis to Buffalo, Ny is considered the rust belt.
Baltimore, Saint Louis, Detroit etc... That's really dangerous cities !!
memphis
You guys are right when you said people rob and steal and sell drugs to get money because a lot of the times there is no other way. Because you don’t grow up with the resources to play basketball or play football or have some type of intelligence in your brain and then you get in groups with some bad people who tell you that this is your only way and you end up doing those things and usually the end result of that is you end up dead or in jail so it’s not the best thing to do or follow the people you are around but a lot of people do it.
Stop making excuses for criminals
@@beansmcdonough1782 stop acting like u understand how poverty works. Not every person that commits a crime is a criminal.
@@beansmcdonough1782 yes further because further demoralizing the generationally poor is whats gonna solve this 👏 🙌😒
I felt like Miami, Atlanta, and LA Should've been included.
Large Metro populations that's why they're not on the list.
Murder rates go by ratio of number of people living in just city limits. Not suburbs which is considered Metropolitan
Baltimore MD...You need to react to "The Wire".
My hometown in Ohio was relatively safe but once you crossed to the main street area it was pretty bad. My home was broken into 4 times in under a year. I bought a pistol because it was sketchy trying to bring groceries in the house at night. My neighbor down the road was shot 6 times and the guy who did it was arrested on my front lawn. My town had a bad drug problem but sadly most of the crime committed was out of boredom.
What city u in? I live in Columbus.
OH
I use to live about 3 hours north in ashtabula county. Little town called conneaut
@@bubbasimpson9111 💯
The movie clip is from the 1944 movie Laura, starring Gene Tierney (my favorite actress) and Dana Andrews. Also had Vincent Price in it.
I knew it had to be from the 40s. The one guy said the 60s
The second Danz said Baltimore was a beautiful city I immediately thought, "Oh, he probably only went to the harbor and ate some crabs." The rest of the city is a dumpster fire and not safe at all.
The "Detroit being a run down city" thing is overblown. Yeah there are dangerous areas but the downtown area is safe just like any other downtown. The national media really f'ed the cities image by constantly showing the run down areas from 10+ years ago and not showing any of the major recent developments. Downton Detroit had one of the largest rent increases over the last few years compared to other major cities. That doesn't happen if people don't want to live there.
That’s the media for u. I believe the term is ‘fake news’. I went to Detroit for a day when I was younger probably 15 years ago and it wasn’t actually that bad, I was quite surprised. I am also surprised that people still watch the news after all those audio tapes were leaked from companies like CNN that proved they don’t care about giving people the info as is...they only care about manipulating the info so the viewers see what they want them to see. It’s a form of control. Knowledge is power after all. (On a side but related note I remember seeing a media segment probably the weather channel or something about a storm and the on site reporter was holding their jacket and bracing themselves against the wind and yelling and it seemed like they were in the middle of the storm and it was chaos there...turns out 2 dudes walk behind him in the middle of the segment wearing shorts! Just strolling by like ‘ wtf are those media people doin over there the weather is alright!’ Haha it was so pathetic I couldn’t believe it)
@@mitten97 Let me guess you watch Fox News and think they are giving you the facts.
"If he domestically abused himself it'd be 100%" Ok I'm still laughing at that line
Lmao at 8:30 y'all are like "that looks quite grim" when I'm here like "oh that looks quite nice for a city here."
El Paso is reportedly one of the safest cities in the US.
And shares a border with the most dangerous city in Mexico.
Lmao “safest cities” good one bro 😂😂
@@xemty1312 Maybe you should use Google before you embarrass yourself again.
@@BathtubBass I have no idea what your talking about btw I live in El Paso 🤣
@@xemty1312 Well for someone who lives in El Paso, you're pretty unaware of your own city. You've lived in a year after year Top 10 safest cities in the US. Yeesh, take pride in your city bruh
I'm originally from the San Francisco area and moved out to the Baltimore for work. I bought a historic, beautiful 3 story home overlooking the Baltimore harbor for 1/4th the price I would have paid for in DC. Aesthetically, the Inner Harbor and Federal Hill areas are maintained and safe. You want to avoid West Baltimore, that's where 90% of the homicides occur. To get a better grapple on where homicides occur where they do, you should look at America's history of redlining. Every US city practiced redlining which was legal up to the late 60's. Many neighborhoods within these cities still haven't recovered. The city redlined maps are online, it's an interesting part of our history that even most Americans are oblivious to.
You guys are my favorite thing to watch!
I actually agree
@@StackRunItUp same
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Fun fact: Minneapolis, Minnesota has the nickname Murderapolis.
I used to live in El Paso. Wasn't as bad as when I stayed outside Mexico City 😂😂
St. Louis here.
That pocket that causes a lot of the problems is spread out when they start anti-crime initiatives. It literally squeezes out the people that cause crime into other areas. Spreading the problem everywhere. And when an entire city does it, the problem then goes to the suburbs where the stats don't count towards that city.
You then have cities that push groups and gangs into other cities. Like Chicago was recently pushed into St. Louis, And St. Louis into KC.
Now we have small towns turning into their own ghetto with drug use and the opioid crises fueling it.
The collapse of economic opportunity in the last 10 or so years is a big part of why Baltimore is more dangerous now then Daz remembers.
except for the lowest unemployment rate ever and good economic growth thing that happened
My son-in-law was sent to Baltimore for a week or two repairing some machines used in stores. He felt very unsafe but survived. Buffalo, NY was pretty rough when he lived there 20 years ago, but it wasn't even on the list. Dayton and Cleveland Ohio had been infamous within Ohio but didn't make the list.
haha i like how they take a look at the street about 8 minutes in and say that looks grim. That's pleasant compared to where my friend lives in Albany, New York lol and Albany is the state capital... and he lives right in the city center lol...
Just to add one what y’all were saying at the end. Education is super important, less the “drugs are bad” programs (in America we had D.A.R.E.) as they don’t really work.
But actually giving these kids access to good schools, good education, a safe environment, is what will help them see a way out of the cycle of poverty striking their communities.
However, ultimately, if that economic opportunities don’t follow once they’re done with school, they’ll either move away or fall back in the “extra-legal” opportunities presented to them.
I was expecting to see Chicago on this list haha
Chicago definitely has more homicides than the cities on this list, but this list was done per capita. Chicago has many times the population of most of the cities on this list.
@@paulwright6044 exactly, Chicago in its entirety aint all that dangerous just certain parts of it is a Warzone compared to Baltimore where the entire city is a fucking warzone, I’m talking the mayor getting raided and arrested, corrupt police officers, and 300+ homicides for a relatively small population compared to Chicago,
I watch several crime shows that air on cable TV here in America. There are two gangs that operate in Miami, one is the 12th Ave gang the other is the 13th Ave gang. They literally are one street next to each other, and what makes the deaths even worse is the fact that they grew up knowing each other, families know each other and the kids went to school together. There was an episode where a kid in one of the gangs was shot and killed by a "friend" who was in the other gang. The gang who had their "brother" shot took to the street in retaliation for his death and randomly starting killing kids from the rival gang. The gang violence in America is off the charts and it starts in the home. There are TOO many families where there are no male figures in the home to set a proper example of how a young man should behave, so they go to the street for examples and are caught up thinking that this kind of life of kill or be killed is the normal way to handle disagreements. It just makes me ill that America has adopted new terms such as "baby mama" and "baby daddy" because kids are popping out illegitimate babies right and left....and our government only exacerbates the problem by paying the mothers with more welfare money every time they have another child out of wedlock. It is deplorable and we are allowing it to continue!
Baltimore is rough as hell. I recommend watching The Wire and not spending any time deep in the city.
Britain has the most successful serial killer, but I think it’s bizarre that he killed 250-something of his own patients. Didn’t he care about his business at all?
I mean he was still being paid, no one could prove it was his fault the patients were dying until years later
People often ask if Baltimore is really as bad as it’s portrayed in The Wire, & it definitely is, if not worse. Goes back to the days of racial segregation. Downtown Baltimore & the harbor are very nice, but outside of that, very dangerous.
@Uncle Ho you’re not worth my time. Have a good day sir!
@Uncle Ho It can be actually. Like finding life differences of living in Norway compared to Somalia.
@Uncle Ho Facts
As someone from New Orleans, it is NOT fully recovered 🙃 They were more worried about restoring the tourists areas unfortunately.
Same on the Mississippi coast.
Ya'll should watch The Wire if you want to know about Baltimore
You should watch Star Wars if you want to know about Alderaan.
For people looking to visit the states:
As with most major cities there are really only three rules.
1) Stay out of rough neighborhoods
2) Don't buy and/or sell drugs
3) Don't walk alone at night in a big city (aka use your brain)
Follow those rules and you'll more than likely go your whole life without even meeting anyone who was shot, let alone getting shot yourself
As I've heard the Sheriff say from the county I used to live, there's three reasons for the violence:
Lifestyle
Lifestyle
Lifestyle
The city of Detroit actually had to file for bankruptcy in 2013.....the city has suffered from deplorable poverty. They wound up paying nearly $165,000,000 in legal fees during the bankruptcy case.....it was the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history.
Almost all of my extended family lives in St. Louis and I definitely lost a childhood friend and my cousin to gun violence within a month of one another last year. ALSO I hated the end of the video because its a cycle and to act like people just choose to struggle, to risk their life and do illegal things to make money is beyond naive (let's pretend I can spell). I used to think similarly but now that I am older it has become clear to me that it isn't quite THAT simple. There is more to it. Parts of St. Louis are beautiful, great culture, lots of shows and activities but other parts especially EAST St. Louis (located in IL) are not where you ever want to be.
I am so deeply sorry and ashamed my home took them from you. I am a part of this place and it hurts me everyday. Last summer i saved a guy that was poisoned by a cigarette dipped in pcp. But i know damn well one isnt enough. I am sorry i cant do more. I have lost friends and family to this place, my home, as well.
I wrote 3 drafts of this and each one felt insufficient and maybe insulting. Im settling on these words because i had to say something. It wont make it right but... i hope its better than nothing. Thats how i felt when i helped that guy. Better than nothing, and thats not much. And i dont feel like it was even enough.
Im sorry. Id give them back if i but had the power. I dont. I could barely help save one person and i didnt even follow up with him. My home failed you. And i failed you. You deserve more than some jerks comment. But its all i have.
I’m also from St. Louis and have been very disappointed in the violence here. It’s become common. There’s definitely a cycle of ignorance and justification that makes people think it’s okay or even normal because it’s all they’ve ever known. I really hope there’s a turn around in this city at some point.
Damn as an American I new Baltimore was bad but NEVER would I have thought it was number one! Crazy! I’m happy to see that Atlanta is on the list, my home town!
You can get murdered anywhere most of this is tied to gang's.stranger mostly don't kill strangers.
Born and raised in Memphis, lived there for over 20 years. We were in the top 10 most dangerous cities every single year I’ve been on this planet, and usually topped or near-top in assaults and murders. The city is run by 4 gangs pretty much and people know where the most wanted people are but they just won’t go there cause there isn’t enough police and it’s be a bloodbath. They hunt tourists off of Graceland and watch them every. day. Typically the murder rate fluctuates depending on the current state of gang beef going on, but assaults always remain in the top as many issues are resolved through violence, as many feel that showing a lack of respect can only be corrected by beating the hell out of whoever it was that made them feel that way. It’s like a fucked up sense of honor. It contradicts how most people are very salt of the earth kind of people and many of the nicest people I’ve ever met are from Memphis. The whole city and the people that live there are connected by the struggles they face living in the city, but they all love it as their home and they hopelessly wait for it to someday get better. You don’t talk shit about Memphis to Memphis folk. Only Memphis folk get to talk shit about Memphis.
No, other people can talk shit about Memphis and I will always talk shit about Memphis and encourage others to talk shit about Memphis who are not from that shithole of a city and praise them
I'm moving to El Paso in June. Over the past 4 years it has become a much safer place.
My girlfriend and I were in the St. Louis Arch before it was officially open in late 69. Rode to the top for $.50 each as I recall. The landscaping wasn't done yet at that point.
Great vid guys! Love y’all!
If they out-lawed guns, the criminals would still have hand guns, but the law-abiding citizens wouldn't have a way to defend themselves.
Check out HBO’s The Wire all about Baltimore one of the greatest shows ever
Omar should have been given a spin-off
That lady who was the only resident had to perform her own autopsy.
really
The Wire, Homicide, and The Corners. All great shows about Bmore.
I lived in metro Kansas City 5 years ago. There was nowhere in the city that I would be afraid to go to during the day, although I usually had my 1911 with me. Once the sun goes down I would avoid The Paseo/Troost corridor.
Now I'm outside of Baltimore and there are places that I won't go even during the day. In Missouri and Kansas the criminals assume that you are armed. In Maryland they assume that you aren't.
Countries not allowing gun ownership have significantly higher murder rates than the only country where publicly owned guns out number the population, not counting the many millions of guns owned before registration was required? Why?
IMO drugs and drug addiction is what fuels crime in the US
I live in central Illinois which is 90 minutes from St Louis, Missouri.I feel safer in St. Louis than I do in Chicago, Illinois. I expected Chicago to be #1, and hand guns are outlawed in Chicago!
774 people were murdered in Chicago in 2020. Yeah, I'll definitely pass on Chicago.
B.J. same!!
Every city is going to have their sketchy areas, no one city is absolutely perfect but some are far off worse. North Philly, SE DC, Southside Chicago, East LA all pop into mind immediately. As other comments have said, poverty and public services go hand in hand, if there's no access to local jobs or mass transit to get to jobs, food deserts, etc, people get desperate. Teens / early 20s guys will join gangs to sell drugs to earn money for their families but usually die from other gangs or police. The flip side is is most politicians don't really give a damn to help fix it because if their family isn't affected by it, why bother.
The whole "bad pocket area" idea is like the complete opposite of Baltimore lol, its like theres one safe pocket (The harbor) which he says is the only area he really visited, and the rest of the city is like playing russian roulette
I live in Memphis, TN and I grew up in Detroit. It's not about the breakdown of the family, that's a symptom, it's rampant racism and poverty, in terms of racist policies that keep people in poverty. Detroit inner-city schools get funding from residential taxes so public schooling is massively unequal. Try getting out of the cycle of poverty when everyone around you is hustling to survive, you can't get a decent education, etc.
I love Baton Rouge and New Orleans! I don’t care what these videos say. ☺️
Round 17:45 the cinema shooting was in Lafayette, LA. Baton rouge is the capital though so i wouldnt be surprised
Detroit is full of nice people. I love it!
Thanks homie 👊
Not surprised with B-more, being the top. Lived near there for 2 years 2012/2013 while in the military and it just became a regular thing how many murders/shootings were going to be on the news from the night before. I swear it had to be at least one a day back then.
It’s virtually all gang violence, and as of the last few years, a lack of prosecuting serious criminals has lead to encouragement of gang activity and violence during protests or riots
I live near Atlanta and go there a lot. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it ranked pretty high in danger. I also travel to El Paso for work frequently, and yes it’s a very dangerous area.
The narrator's happy tone was hilarious to me considering the topic
I wasn't surprised it was Baltimore either. This is the state where its own State Attorney Marilyn Mosby told its people they had the right to riot and destroy the city after Freddie Gray died a few years ago as he was being transported "unfettered" inside a police van. When the top state law enforcement official says it's acceptable to trash a city without fear of retribution, it's no wonder the murder rate is so high in Baltimore. Mosby brought charges against 6 police officers, even the ones who had nothing to do with transporting Gray to the police station. Three were eventually acquitted; and she had to drop charges against the other three. From all accounts, all are back at work, trying to keep Baltimore's citizens safe. Good luck with that.
Hello from Baltimore
same
Out here in the county.
Newark is a friggin’ nightmare. I remember in the 1980s, Newark was the drug capitol, murder capitol, AIDS capital, violent crime capitol... pretty much the everything bad capitol. My grandmother grew up there and talked about how beautiful Newark was. She always described the cottage they lived in across the street from Branchbrook Park and all the streets being lined with beautiful old trees. Thank God she died before it sunk this low.
Hey, hey, from Memphis!
General Motors headquarters is smack in the middle of Detroit. Ford and Chrysler are in suburbs. Many people in metro Detroit are still financially dependent on the American auto industry. Auto suppliers (for all makers) and other auto companies also have facilities in the area.