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Not sure for Toronto, maybe the westside, mostly the northern part (West-Humber, Jane-Finch, Malton) and near western (Weston, York, Eglinton West, Parkdale) parts. The southwest is low crime though.
Northside is pretty much entirely low crime.
Eastside is mixed... East of downtown has soon poor areas (St Jamestown, Regent Park, Moss Park) but also gentrified neighbourhoods. Furthern out, it's mostly average, even though that area is nicknamed Scarberia. :P Scarborough Bluffs and Rouge Hill are wealthy though, and Malvern is poor.
In the outer suburbs, the northern ones are all low-crime, the eastern and near western (Peel) have crime rates similar to the city and the far western (Halton) are wealthy and low crime.
tl;dr I guess in Toronto the northside is low crime, and the westside and eastside are mixed (by Canadian standards).
In DC and the inner suburbs, the eastern half is generally much less desirable than the western half. There are several exceptions to this, but this is generally true. However, this observation largely only holds true inside the Capital Beltway.
For Lansing, it's the southside. There are some seedy parts scattered around elsewhere in the city (especially on the northside), but the southside (more specifically the area between Waverly and MLK, but south of Holmes) is definitely the most dangerous. That's where most of the shootings, stabbings, murders, burglarys, etc. happen.
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Lexington KY: historically the Northside, especially everything btw Downtown and Loudon Ave. However it seems like Southeast Lexington is just about as bad anymore. The area around Tates Creek High School is a cesspool of shootings, drug dealers, and a few murders per year (Centre Parkway/ Appian Way area). The Woodhill (aka Hood Hill) area around Richmond Rd & New Circle is pretty bad too. A cabbie got shot to death in an apartment parking lot there at 2 am. No one called police to report 5 gunshots!! 911 didn't get a call until 10am (the shooting happened a just outside ppl's windows)
So far this year Lexington has had 11 murders, all but 2 were in the Southeast part of town. Only 2 in the Northside, and none on the West side (which is considered a "bad area" by many South siders)
Every time I've been to the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, there is homeless people everywhere, gang members of many different races, police cars with sirens on, marijuana smells in the air and I hear shouting. The Mission district can be pretty shady sometimes also
If you divided Reno into quadrants, the northeast side would be the worst, specifically the areas around 5th-7th Streets east of Valley Rd, and the Oddie Blvd/Montello/Clear Acre area. Broken glass and garbage everywhere, houses with fences falling apart, potholes that could single-handedly wreck your transmission, groups of teenagers walking around in the middle of the street eyeing you.
Southwest is nice; northwest and southeast have some bad parts and some okay parts.
Boston... South of the city in the neighborhoods of Mattapan and Dorchester... used to be the east side in Southie, East Boston, Chelsea and Lynn area.
- the still largely ugly, industrialized Lake Erie lakefront (actually, more abandoned industrial ruins... even worse!) east of downtown Cleveland. Things are improving slightly, esp with the 9th Street pier area (now the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame pier, marina area), but Cleveland's lakefront is still badly lacking.
-- the mid-East Side, esp the northeast, Hough and Glenville, esp east of E. 55 and west of E. 105, are struggling with lots of blight, even though there are pockets of stability and beauty, and even growth ... the closer to Midtown and Cleveland Clinic's huge campus, the nicer this region gets. Still, lots of work needs to be done.
-- East Cleveland. Yes it's a suburb, but its so close in and surrounded by Cleveland on 2 sides, its almost a part of the City. The main EC portion, down the hill (up the hill is solid middle class even with some mini-mansions, estates) is rundown and frighteningly ruinous: some of the worst urban blight in America (watch the Chapman Avenue YouTube videos). It's hard to imagine any American suburb that's THIS bad, and this includes some of the nation's other infamous "East(s)"; Orange and St. Louis, among them. A few years ago Cleveland made overtures toward annexing East Cleveland but the clueless EC city council balked. Annexation may be the only avenue to saving this suburb even with the growth pressure from exploding neighbor, Cleveland's University Circle area (and lower Glenville) probably isn't enough to save EC even though there's been a slight blight arrest near Univ. Circle.
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