Broward county - The Truth (Miami, Orlando: crimes, neighborhood, high school)

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Originally Posted by PBCboy

Gangstas-N-Thugs is filmed exclusively in Palm Beach County. The producer's name is Raylo and he lives in Lake Worth.

Here's a sample of the video:


YouTube - GANGSTAS N THUGS 561

Yes I know...see my location..

[PBCboy]

Originally Posted by tallrick

Notice where Tennessee and South Carolina are on the list, something seems wrong with this.

Eh? Those two states have lots of dangerous areas to live in. There is lots of poverty in Tennessee and especially South Carolina, which is home to many places that would put even South Florida to shame.

[Robbied]

Ok, I am originally from Chicago, live in south Florida and have bought land in Tennessee so that makes me able to speak on all three...

I go to chgo a few times a year, my two daughters live there as do all of my sisters, cousins, aunts ,uncles. You couldnt BEG any of them to move to Fl or Tn from there. Granted there is crime and you do see it but it isnt the same as here in Fl.

I have seen a drastic change in Fl. but we should all be quiet about it so that we can sell our houses. I guess lately I am really saddened about all the injured and shot police. The areas of crime just seem to be random and all over. Wrong place wrong time type of shootings.

I do feel very safe where I live..but I have seen a definite change.

[S_FLA]

Originally Posted by doom1001

I agree,except for a few select locations in Eastern Broward county,most of it would not be considered good neighborhoods.Western Broward county however has some of the better areas in all of South Florida.

Not necessarily true about W. Broward, it depends on the specific area you're living in (also price of housing). Areas of W. Broward such as Sunrise (some people call Scumrise), Plantation, even some parts of Coral Springs and Margate have even gotten worse crime-wise.

Whoever 954 is, he/she fails to say which neighborhoods in Ft. Lauderdale are bad. You have multi-million dollar estates all on the water in Ft. Lauderdale where Wayne Huizenga and a lot of millionaires live. Basically, if you live on or near the ocean or intercoastal you are probably living in a nicer neighborhood. Because the citites are relatively small, you can have extremely poor areas 15 minutes away.

Same goes for neighboring Broward beach cities including Hollywood FL, Pompano Beach, Lighthouse Point, Deerfield Beach. You go from million dollar houses on the beach to bad neighborhoods (usually west of Dixie Highway or around 95 to 441).

Then the neighborhoods get better as you go farther west like in the cities of Parkland and Weston. They have practically no crime with beautiful houses and neighborhoods.

Broward's gang crime is noteably lower than West Palm Beach's crime. The gang crime in Lake Worth, Boynton Beach West Palm Beach. You really have to check out the specific area because it varies widely.

[Lauderdale954]

if anyone read yesterdays article in the local section of sun sentinel, it says Broward is on pace to have the highest number of murders since 1990, with 123. Last year was 87...this year it's expected to be 123...see the difference?!?!?!

[PBCboy]

Originally Posted by Lauderdale954

if anyone read yesterdays article in the local section of sun sentinel, it says Broward is on pace to have the highest number of murders since 1990, with 123. Last year was 87...this year it's expected to be 123...see the difference?!?!?!

Palm Beach County: Murder rate hits near-record high

[Lauderdale954]

Originally Posted by PBCboy

Palm Beach County: Murder rate hits near-record high

Ya I just read an article that said last year, Florida out paced the entire country with a 23% increase in murders compared to the nations 1%.

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Originally Posted by Lauderdale954

yeah..thats a pretty nice area..and by the way..? chicago does not have more crime then fort. lauderdale..Fort. Lauderdale, Pompano, West Palm Beach, Miami Gardens, and Miami are ranked more dangerous then Chicago..check your facts

I feel you on this issue mane......Chicago does have some bad areas but name as many suburbs or seperate cities outside of Chicago that has the amount of crime that Lauderdale954 is proving they have throughout South FLA......i love how no one ever posts facts......they all come from up north and "say" how much worse things are than here...we in Florida dont go to other peoples states and talk all dat sh#@$#4 cuz we already know what tha deal is here.....i see more New Yorkers and people from other places thinking that they saw the ghetto in Florida but they stayed in a hotel while they were here or they visited near Weston or Las Olas Blvd......or they moved out to 200k - $300k homes down here and think they know whats up and they think wherever they came from is alot worse, but even up there they know they never seen a ghetto....only drove through one maybe by accident and remember the time they saw the "bad part" of town up there and they compare that memory to the nice neighborhood they live in down here.......let these Up-north people keep believing while we show facts and video to prove things and while people here actually live in bad areas and are just warning you TO STAY THA "F" OUT OF THOSE AREAS......I used to live down in Miami near Lake Stevens Elementary between 47th and 57th ave then i moved near American High and then luckily moved out to P.S.N. and then Nashville TN...and after that now i live in Orlando.....I never lived in the projects but when i was in the suburbs out in Dade believe me i saw lots of fights and knew lots of 16-17 year olds with guns .......Hey Lauderdale954....let these people say there arent bad areas worse than alot of other places in the U.S. because they dont even live in one so let them waste thier words trying to prove facts wrong

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I can post facts...Broward County has been the only urban county in the state to have a crime rate below the national average. In 2003, it had the lowest murder rate of its size in the entire country at 1.8 murders per 100,000. Even if we hit around 130 this year, that puts our homicide rate at an about-average rate. The bad areas are getting much worse, but I don't know what this nonsense is about Sunrise and Margate being unsafe because you hear about a robbery once in a while and a could-happen-anywhere shooting. Believe it or not, robbery is a common crime even in the safest small town in the middle of nowhere. These are large towns and crimes aren't occurring at a particularly high rate for their size. The bad areas right now have always been bad, and the good areas have always been good (or were built in the past 10 years)...so what are the bad areas? And I will quote them by City-Data crime averages in 2005 (which more likely than not have actually gone down from then). I will consider any city with an index over 400 to be "bad", between 300-400 "average" and below 300 "good"
National average-325.2

Fort Lauderdale-600.8. This is about right for what has become a major city. No 1000s like you will see in Tampa, Orlando, Detroit, Baltimore or Chicago (610.0) for that matter.
Lauderhill-434.4 (not even that bad)
Pompano Beach-687.5 (and Pompano really is sinking, it's starting to remind me of Riviera Beach)
Deerfield Beach-418.8 (another sinking city, interesting that it straddles the Palm Beach County line)
Oakland Park-723.9(very small and poor city)
Wilton Manors-403.8(very small city near bad areas)
Pembroke Park-703.1 (very small and poor city)
Hallandale Beach-447.3
Lauderdale Lakes-580.6

So what areas are good? I will name them all, and I won't even name the tiny "Good" cities like I did with the "Bad" cities or else the list would be larger. Not to mention the bulk of the population acutally lives in these cities.

Parkland-109.6
Coconut Creek-187.3
Coral Springs-140.3
Margate-177.0 (they have a good police force there too)
Tamarac-185.5
Sunrise- 280.5 (if they would chop off the section-8 laden area east of University Drive and hand it to Lauderhill I bet it would fall by 100)
Plantation-279.2 (same applies)
Weston-102.9
Davie- 280.9
Cooper City-170.0
Pembroke Pines-211.3

Average or fringier areas are...
North Lauderdale- 390.6
Hollywood-383.3
Miramar-301.7 (and it used to be in the 200s)

National average of crimes per 100 thousand
4627.9

Broward County average in 2006 (my CD stats are from 2005, and crime county wide has actually dropped since then)

4,295.9




The truth?
Overall, Broward County is a dense,diverse, and crowded microcosm of a typical U.S metropolitan area. It has city, inner city, and suburbia all tied into one tightly-packed package. We have large amounts of bad areas, larger amounts of good areas, and a few fringey areas. It's really no different from anywhere else. We have cities that rank among America's safest (Coral Springs is number 10) and cities that rank among America's most dangerous (Pompano has been on the top 25 a few times), and we have anything in between. All and all, this is the truth about Broward County.

[macguy]

Originally Posted by fort lauderdale

I can post facts...Broward County has been the only urban county in the state to have a crime rate below the national average. In 2003, it had the lowest murder rate of its size in the entire country at 1.8 murders per 100,000. Even if we hit around 130 this year, that puts our homicide rate at an about-average rate. The bad areas are getting much worse, but I don't know what this nonsense is about Sunrise and Margate being unsafe because you hear about a robbery once in a while and a could-happen-anywhere shooting. Believe it or not, robbery is a common crime even in the safest small town in the middle of nowhere. These are large towns and crimes aren't occurring at a particularly high rate for their size. The bad areas right now have always been bad, and the good areas have always been good (or were built in the past 10 years)...so what are the bad areas? And I will quote them by City-Data crime averages in 2005 (which more likely than not have actually gone down from then). I will consider any city with an index over 400 to be "bad", between 300-400 "average" and below 300 "good"
National average-325.2

Fort Lauderdale-600.8. This is about right for what has become a major city. No 1000s like you will see in Tampa, Orlando, Detroit, Baltimore or Chicago (610.0) for that matter.
Lauderhill-434.4 (not even that bad)
Pompano Beach-687.5 (and Pompano really is sinking, it's starting to remind me of Riviera Beach)
Deerfield Beach-418.8 (another sinking city, interesting that it straddles the Palm Beach County line)
Oakland Park-723.9(very small and poor city)
Wilton Manors-403.8(very small city near bad areas)
Pembroke Park-703.1 (very small and poor city)
Hallandale Beach-447.3
Lauderdale Lakes-580.6

So what areas are good? I will name them all, and I won't even name the tiny "Good" cities like I did with the "Bad" cities or else the list would be larger. Not to mention the bulk of the population acutally lives in these cities.

Parkland-109.6
Coconut Creek-187.3
Coral Springs-140.3
Margate-177.0 (they have a good police force there too)
Tamarac-185.5
Sunrise- 280.5 (if they would chop off the section-8 laden area east of University Drive and hand it to Lauderhill I bet it would fall by 100)
Plantation-279.2 (same applies)
Weston-102.9
Davie- 280.9
Cooper City-170.0
Pembroke Pines-211.3

Average or fringier areas are...
North Lauderdale- 390.6
Hollywood-383.3
Miramar-301.7 (and it used to be in the 200s)

National average of crimes per 100 thousand
4627.9

Broward County average in 2006 (my CD stats are from 2005, and crime county wide has actually dropped since then)

4,295.9




The truth?
Overall, Broward County is a dense,diverse, and crowded microcosm of a typical U.S metropolitan area. It has city, inner city, and suburbia all tied into one tightly-packed package. We have large amounts of bad areas, larger amounts of good areas, and a few fringey areas. It's really no different from anywhere else. We have cities that rank among America's safest (Coral Springs is number 10) and cities that rank among America's most dangerous (Pompano has been on the top 25 a few times), and we have anything in between. All and all, this is the truth about Broward County.

Just for the record, Broward is being investigated right now for faking crime figures. In other words, they would catch say a burglar and use the arrest and conviction to clear up 20 other unsolved burglaries by attributing them to him and closing the cases. It also adds to the "solved crime" numbers making the departments look like they are doing a better job then they are. Browards sheriff was just fired two weeks ago and is going to prison for his own crimes. Yea, we have some real quality people down here.