Which city is safer LA or NYC? (better, crime rate, comparison)
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I'm going to say NYC is safer since LA has so many bad parts and so much gang territory.
Look how many Crip gangs alone there are in LA city:
101 Crip Gang Addicted to Crime Avalon 40's Crips Avalon Gangster Crips 53 Avalon Ganster Crips, 116 Avalon Garden Crips 88 Back Street Crips Beach Town Mafia Crips Big Daddyz (BDZ) Blunt Smoking Only Gang BOGC Born To Jacc Crips 73rdst Broadway Gangster Crips, 112 Broadway Gangster Crips, 52 Burnside Avenue Crip Gang By Yourself Hustler Crips Compton Avenue Crips, 95 Dirty Old Man Gang Dodge City Crips DSHC 91st East Coast Block Crips, Q102 East Coast Crips, 118 East Coast Crips, 59 East Coast Crips, 62 NHC East Coast Crips, 66 East Coast Crips, 68 East Coast Crips, 69 Shack Boys East Coast Crips, 97 East Side Hustler Crips 104, 108 East Side Hustler Crips 115,118 East Side Players, 97 East Side Ridas, 64 East Side Ridaz, 59 Four Duece Crip Gang (w/s) Four Line Drive Crips Front Street Crips Fudge Town Mafia Crips, 105, 107 Gangster Crips, 42(es) Gangster Crips, 43 Gangster Crips, 43 SS Gangster Crips, 47 Gangster Crips, 48 Gangster Crips, 83 Gangster Crips, 87 Gangster Crips, 96 Gangster Crips, 97 Gangster, Hoover, 52 Geer Gang Crips Grape Street Watts Harbor City Crips Hard Time Hustler Crips, 88, 93 Hard Time Hustler Crips, 78 Hickery Street Watts Crip Holmes Town Crips, 97 Home Boys Crimino Gang Hoover, 107 Hoover, 112 Hoover, 59 Hoover, 74 Hoover, 83 Hoover, 92 Hoover, 94 HSHG Kitchen Crips, 116 Kitchen Crips, 95 LDH 73 Main Street Crips Main Street Mafia Crips Mansfield Gangster Crips Marvin Gangsters Menlo Gangster Crips, 65 Most Valuable Pimp Gangster Crip NBGC Neighbor Hood 90 Crips Neighbor Hood Crips, 106 Neighbor Hood Crips, 111, 112 Neighbor Hood Crips, 46 Neighbor Hood Crips, 55 Neighbor Hood Crips, 57 Neighbor Hood Crips, 59 Neighbor Hood Crips, 67 Neighbor Hood Crips, Lynwood Nothing But TroubleHalldale Crip, 51 NSG Senyo Gang Perverts Pimp Town Murder Squad PJ Watts Crips Play Boy Gangster Crips Play Boy Hustler Crips, 68,69 Play Boy Hustler Crips, 75 Play Boy Style Crips, 106 Play Boy Style Crips, 82 RHG Rollin 30s Original Harlem Crips Rollin 40s Crip Rollin 60s Neighbor Hood Crip Rollin 90s Neighbor Hood Crip Rollin 90s Westcoast Rough Neck Tribe School Yard Crips SSXCG Ten Line Ganster Crips Twilight Zone Crips 110 Venice Shore Line Crips We Dont Care Crips West Boulevard Crip 28 West Boulevard Crips 64 Young Ass Playas
That's 110 of just crip neighborhoods, let alone all the bloods, surenos, XV3's and Asian gang territories. And that's only within city limits, not counting Compton, Inglewood, Athens, Carson, Gardena, Hawthorne, or anywhere else that makes the area deadly that immediately borders it.
Bad districts/larger neighborhoods would include South Central, Watts, Crenshaw, Baldwin Village, Pico-Union, Boyle Heights, East LA, Skid Row, parts of Hollywood, Van Nuys, etc. Overall IMO NYC is much safer, even though it has some really bad neighborhoods. LA's gang violence is pretty widespread and even though it calmed down a bit lately, its always a threat. The gang issue in LA makes it a much more dangerous place than NYC.
And look at both cities' crime stats side by side. (This is from 2006 since I haven't seen a more updated side-by-side comparison.)
Very true Jman, my Aunt lives in Boyle Heights. She lives in a part known as Evergreen. I would love to see certain people walk down the street there *supermario* can you say cardiac arrest.
I would say NYC is safer than L.A. overall. Both have bad neighborhoods and great neighborhoods. Crime statistics show that. Los Angeles is still one of the safer big cities in our country though and should be proud of the improvements they are making in having a very low crime rate for being such a big city. The crime rate has fallen dramatically in both cities. NYC was at 516 murders for example in 2008 (a low rate of 6.2 per 100,000 people) . In 1990 the city had 2,262! Talk about a MAJOR improvement. Los Angeles had 381 homicides in 2008 (rate of 9.9 per 100,000). In 1992 the city hit its high point at 1,092 homicides! Again, a MAJOR improvement. Both cities should be proud of the advances they have made in turning many rough neighborhoods into better ones, but it also doesn't diminish the crime that still occurs in the bad neighborhoods that remain.
Last edited by missionhome; 06-27-2009 at 05:38 PM..
Very true Jman, my Aunt lives in Boyle Heights. She lives in a part known as Evergreen. I would love to see certain people walk down the street there *supermario* can you say cardiac arrest.
LMAO cardiac arrest followed by soiled pants. Though we all know he'd never have the balls to set foot anywhere near there in the first place lol.
LMAO cardiac arrest followed by soiled pants. Though we all know he'd never have the balls to set foot anywhere near there in the first place lol.
The thing that people don't understand about the west coast gangs, is that gangs are not made up of young thugs. You have 30,40,50 year olds that base their lives on their gang. It's a totally different thing than the gangs in NY. In LA people drive through opposing neighborhoods looking for someone to shoot at. Not because of anything more than they live in that particular neighborhood.
Even if LA did have the same crime rate as New York City, New York City would still be safer because of the population size.
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