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Cincinnati, happened to be at a gas station late at night when it was held up, police cars everywhere, SWAT team, dogs, you name it. Seemed almost like being in a movie but scarier
Detroit, took a wrong turn and ended up in a sketchy area, at gas station I filled up my car real fast.
Batavia, New York, Red Roof Inn, noisy drunken fight in hallway at 3am, motel attached to liquor store
Detroit in the area where Livernois, Joy Road and Grand River Avenue are nearby. I knew when we went to the Church's Chicken on Grand River in that area and it had the bulletproof partition, I knew it was serious around there.
It may not have been automatic gunfire (was several rapid shots so may have been a semi-automatic or something) but I remember it pretty clearly (this was back in 1990-1991 when Atlanta had the highest violent crime rate in the country). Like I said, it has changed a lot since then but parts of Atlanta used to be like war zones (just look up Little Vietnam for an example).
That's crazy...I could only imagine. I mean all big cities are gonna have their issues but for automatic/semi automatic guns going off is a business as usual...that's pretty wild.
Savannah is NOT all "ghetto." Like most cities, it has some rough neighborhoods but most of the city is very nice. The downtown historic district, which is pristine and perfectly safe and one of the most beautiful places in all of America, is bordered on three sides by several blocks that have seen better days, but you get just beyond that and it's a city just like any other -- with very nice upscale neighborhoods, beautiful urban parks, shopping malls, tree-lined boulevards, etc.
The problem with Savannah (and most cities) is that people only come to see the touristy stuff, which is usually in the central city, and if you venture just slightly off the beaten path you're going to end up in less than nice areas. But it doesn't define the whole city. All cities have good and bad areas.'This is typical for ALL cities. There's nothing unique about any of the examples that have been mentioned here.
Los Angeles: had an entire street blocked off because a group of homeless barricaded a street with a dozen trash bins and lit them all on fire, likely to stay warm because it was a colder night during winter.
Oakland: it was around 2 AM as I was driving into the BA looking for a hotel with a vacant room. Saw a guy with his gun out running down the street, with a group of cops chasing him down with guns in hand.
So this thread pretty asks where do blacks and Latinos live?
Well, where poor people live.
I remember some really scary parts of Syracuse, NY (worse than anything I've seen in Chicago), that are mainly white or an even mix of black and white. Parts of York, PA and Binghampton, NY are pretty rough, high crime, and mainly white.
On the other hand, go to a city like Olympia Fields, IL or Mitchellville, MD , and you'll find that over 80% of the population is black with an average household income exceeding $90,000 a year. No crime there.
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