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Old 02-04-2017, 10:45 PM
 
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Let me guess: A "real bad" neighborhood has older, smaller houses and apartment buildings, with predominantly black and brown people. A "real good" neighborhood has big houses and lots of white people.

I thought the neighborhood I grew up in was pretty good. Only later did I discover some people were scared to go there and thought it was a bad place to be.
socioligists call this "familiarity." In other words I'm pretty certain there were neighbohoods you thought were scary or "bad" but the folks who lived in them didn't think it was quite as bad as you. That's "familiartiy." Or as one guy I knew used to say, "it's their jungle" referring to all races, ethnicities incomes, etc. the term "jungle" means "tough, scary, place" like blackboard jungle or its a "jungle" out their.
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Old 02-07-2017, 11:49 AM
 
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WOW, this advice is what leads people to being naive and ending up where they shouldn't be. "CRIME IS PRETTY RARE"

If you wanna say murder is rare right now, fine. But Compton alone had 545 violent crimes over the last 6 months. I wouldnt call that rare.
If you are right in saying that Compton has 545 violent crimes in 6 months, that works out to 1090 violent crimes per year in a population of 100000, that's about 3x the national average of 372 violent crimes reported per 100000 people.

So Compton's violent crime rate is 3x the national average.

Do you know which cities have a crime rate greater than 1090 per year? Here's a list I pulled of Wikipedia list of cities by crime rate.

Compton is thus safer than Atlanta, Baltimore, Buffalo, Cleaveland, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Memphis, Miami, Milwaukee, Nashville, Oakland, St Louis, Stockton, Washington DC.

If you're saying that Compton is too dangerous to enter, than so are all those places.
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Old 02-07-2017, 01:01 PM
 
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A fat white guy would be fine, but not a skinny one. BEWARE.
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Old 02-07-2017, 01:40 PM
 
Location: Encino, CA
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Kind of a moot thread now that the OP has become a "Not a member" since Feb. 1st. Or, he will probably come back as a new member with similar posts under a new name and new join date of Feb 2017.
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Old 02-07-2017, 02:21 PM
 
Location: West Los Angeles and Rancho Palos Verdes
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People usually say that about people that killed people too though..

"I would of never guessed it...they were such a nice person"
"And he was a good boy. My boy didn't do nothin'."
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Old 02-07-2017, 03:27 PM
 
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A fat white guy would be fine, but not a skinny one. BEWARE.

LAMO

Hey I just used my smart phone to film on Colorado Blvd.

I guess that makes me an independent film company just like the OP.
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Old 02-07-2017, 03:30 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles (Native)
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LAMO

Hey I just used my smart phone to film on Colorado Blvd.

I guess that makes me an independent film company just like the OP.
Independent .. LITERALLY!
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Old 02-07-2017, 04:34 PM
 
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I worked in South Central LA for 9 months and it is a scary place if you aren't from there. There was a random shooting across the street from my clinic. Violence and poverty go together. You can't predict what will happen.
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Old 02-08-2017, 07:55 PM
 
Location: Western U.S.
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Kind of a moot thread now that the OP has become a "Not a member" since Feb. 1st. Or, he will probably come back as a new member with similar posts under a new name and new join date of Feb 2017.
You seem obsessed with former members returning. Are you paranoid, a whiney jerkoff, have no life, or all of the above.

An idea from me to you....Bugger off and mind your own like a good boy.

Have a nice day!
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Old 02-09-2017, 12:16 AM
 
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What a weird question, compton is not a safe area in general.

Your skin color has no bearing on that... Im sure a skinny black guy could be just as much of a target in that area.

You're deluding yourself with the idea that being white would receive special attention. Criminals are looking for opppourtunity not your skin tone dude.
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