West 59th Place on Raymond Ave, zip code 90044

[Taiko]

Originally Posted by mrsltd

Yup, yup, very, doesn't matter because the area is rife with gangs. Very sad because there is lots of good housing stock in the southern part of Los Angeles.

You can have a good (relatively speaking) block next to a terrifyingly dangerous block here. This, because of proximity, brings everything way down.

90044 zip code, at least as of a few years ago (I believe I saw this on neighborhood scout but don't remember exactly) was the most dangerous zip code in Los Angeles as far as homicides are concerned.

This doesn't mean that you'll ever be the victim of a crime but the likelihood is far greater.

Area experts, please chime in. I have had more experience in the 90043 and a tad in the 90037 & 90062 (long time ago) but not really in the 90044.

90044 had the highest homicide rate was 15 years ago when I had a route further south in the postal zone and a quarter of the 90044 zip code is outside of the city limits so the murders committed there didn't count against the city's murder rate. But the next year would be Pico Union or somewhere else as the violence cycled. The zip code lines fall on 58th Pl and on Normandie Ave. I never figured out why the Postal Service put the line one block on the other side of the train tracks. They did lose in overtime many a day if a carrier was caught waiting for a train.

There are pockets of relative sanity however. Kids walking home from John Muir Middle school, thus having school district police supplementing LAPD patrols and being a couple blocks from the train tracks were the bigger quality of live issues, assuming a Rollin 60 did not take over a house on your block. I've been gone for about 10 years now

On the plus side was the shopping center, a rarity in the area being a block further away

[theraven24]

Originally Posted by EurAsianGirl

Do you know the area well by any chance?

From your tone it seems to me that it might not be that bad...

What can you tell me about it?

Sorry its just 2 of the cab drivers I spoke to when I was about to go there to give him a surprise visit discouraged me and made it sound that yes, is in in fact THAT bad!

(Then again they were racist Russian guys who used the term "black area" so yeah, maybe to them any area with a sizeable amount black people is automatically "bad." )

Just double-checking here first.

The area is indeed South Central. In saying that, there aren't gang wars and shootouts happening every single day.

In all seriousness, why don't you tell your friend? Maybe you can work something out where he can come to you instead?

[DeeRay]

That area is in the middle of S. Central. It does not border any affluent areas at all. You will be fine taking a cab there. It is working and lower class area made up of mostly Blacks and Hispanics. FYI all of Los Angeles is gang territory...it is not limited to S. Central. If you really feel that unsafe call the person you are meeting as you are approaching your destination and have him meet your cab at the curb. Simple as that....

[Taiko]

Originally Posted by EurAsianGirl

Do you know the area well by any chance?

From your tone it seems to me that it might not be that bad...

What can you tell me about it?

Sorry its just 2 of the cab drivers I spoke to when I was about to go there to give him a surprise visit discouraged me and made it sound that yes, is in in fact THAT bad!

(Then again they were racist Russian guys who used the term "black area" so yeah, maybe to them any area with a sizeable amount black people is automatically "bad." )

Just double-checking here first.

The cab drivers also don't want to dead head out of the area without another fare

[Miami Vice Finatic]

EurAsian Girl as someone who lived in South Los Angeles for four years (57th Street and Crenshaw Blvd) as I did and as someone who knows that area pretty well (family used to and some still live in South LA), I wouldn't advise you to go to your boyfriend's pad that often.

Aint no man in Los Angeles worth you losing your life over or getting mugged over. Don't ever go in that area unless you're in a car. IF you do go over there, go in the morning or EARLY evening.

That whole Slauson and Crenshaw corridor has some decent people who mind their own damn business but it's also full of knuckleheads trying to prove how hard they is, i.e. gang members or wannabes or just regular dips****. So many men over there in they 40s, 50s, and 60s, still on the dumb s*** they were on back in their teens and 20s. So sad.

The Slauson and Crenshaw corridor where your man lives is Crip neighborhood and just about all of that area is Neighborhood Crips (or NHC which I saw many times on walls and streets on my way home) area. Plus it aint too far from Crenshaw High School which is chock full of gang sets, mainly Crips as I said.

But the LAPD has put out injunctions and put they foot off into the behinds of the NHC and Rolling 60s, etc. sets so they aint as active as they were in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, but you can still catch a case over there. DO NOT sleep on Crenshaw and Slauson corridors gangs, trust me.

In closing, like one of the posters in here said, maybe it's best you and your man hang out at your place.