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LA's murder rate isn't actually that high - it's almost half the rate of Chicago. The LA region has areas with fairly bad gang activity (Compton city, for example), but many of those are outside the city of LA itself.
And then there are cities like Cleveland, Detroit, Camden, Flint, Youngstown, St. Louis, Baltimore, etc who all have twice the homicide rates as those cities.
The problem is the media portraying cities with gangs as the most violent. LA or Chicago or NYC are no where near the most dangerous cities.. yet people not living in the cities above watch movies and TV and are led by false information to believe that those cities are dangerous.
Interesting to note as well, the Top 10 most dangerous cities are mainly located in the MIDWEST. 7/10 are I believe.
Even Columbus Ohio has a gang culture now that was previously non-existent.
Go to any police station and they can give you this information as well as where sex offenders live and crime rates.
You think I should walk into my local police station and ask "which cities have the most gang activity?" rather than just look it up on the internet from multiple sources? I bet the best answer the police would give is, "you want to use our computer and google it?"
I live in Chicago and yes it is rough here with the gangs- I teach on the south side in Englewood, and just yesterday there was gang related shooting just down the street at 4:30 in the afternoon, 3 men shot and an elderly woman. It's crazy- but I don't think that gangs proliferate simply because it is cool or in-style. There are real economic issues that cripple certain groups in various cities and then couple that with racism and segregation (Chicago being a good example), gang activity will flourish. Chicago has a history of crushing social movements and taking hardline, shoot-to-kill approaches to gang related issues. As a result of this, gangs have intensified here, as opposed to New York, where outreach approaches were utilized to a greater degree. Cities with large gang problems could find ways of transforming the situation into something collectivistic and progressive, alas it doesn't seem to be the direction government will take- even given the current administration.
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