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LA is much safer. The thing with LA is that even if you're walking in the low-income neighborhoods, those neighborhoods are low-income because most of the people living there are immigrants/non-natives. LA's low-income population are hard working, family-oriented people. LA's poor people are mostly good people, a lot of them new to this country. Crime happens wherever you are, but for the most part LA is safe.
l.a is way bigger in size then chicago and more of a population but gets less murders. So chicago is more dangerous since its murders are probably more dense.
i dont beleive in murder rates when it comes to large cities so this is my theory on it.
l.a is way bigger in size then chicago and more of a population but gets less murders. So chicago is more dangerous since its murders are probably more dense.
i dont beleive in murder rates when it comes to large cities so this is my theory on it.
What you just described sounds awfully like a murder rate Now, why don't you believe in murder rates? especially for large cities (it's small cities that tend to be suspect).
But I always say this:
Some cities have more car accidents per person than others. However, the best indicator of the chance of you getting in a car accident is how you drive your car.
la wins hands down on this one... even staying on venice beach earlier in april where all the aggressive homeless people came out felt safer than cruising down i-290 eisenhower on a fri night this summer listening to a cpd scanner. despite a 15 min delay, news only reports a FRACTION of whats really goin on. there is a most definitely gang activity occuring, mostly at night. scanner would crackle every 30 mins for intruder/b&e, assault or domestic every 15-20, a robbery maybe every hour, and a capital crime or homicide every other hr... no joke while eastbound 290, dispatch mentioned a felony chase in progress, and they passed me going westbound by independence... a year or two ago i also saw the same thing on the dan ryan south of 35th sox us cell field... craziest thing ever. dude passed me up in the local lanes then booked it for the express lanes with 3 squads, watching ramp after downramp fill the highway with swarming police... caught up later just before 103rd, where dude crashed... traffic was diverted onto skyway so i didnt see the aftermath... being a victim of crime (our house was robbed in the 80s in jefferson park - a nice neighnorhood) this made it easy to vote for LA... dont get me wrong, i love chicago, but theres alot of angry desperate poor people out there...until they adress the real problem or acknowledge chicago has a real crime problem, la will always be safer than chi...
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Now, why don't you believe in murder rates? especially for large cities (it's small cities that tend to be suspect).
hate to say...
dont get me wrong, i love chicago, but theres alot of angry desperate poor people out there...until they adress the real problem or acknowledge chicago has a real crime problem, la will always be safer than chi...
