Crime in Los Angeles, not as bad as believed (San Diego: crime rates, houses)

[FinnishAmerican]

Originally Posted by BreaOC

I KNOW!!! I had to work the numbers for St Louis 3 times because I could not believe it was that bad! But in research online I found it to be true that it is generally rated the most dangerous city in the country. How sad! Yet uninformed people very incorrectly put that designation on LA grrrrrr

Why makes it so bad is the SIZE of the town.
St:Louis is small! DAMN!

I saw a documentary by Ross Kemp about gangs over there. I suggest u all watch it. good documenteary

[missionhome]

The new 2008-2009 CQ Press Most dangerous cities in America report came out like two days ago. Here is how Los Angeles area cities did compared to the nation. The rank is from most dangerous to least dangerous. I am only posting select cities for comparison.

1. New Orleans
3. Detroit
4. St. Louis
5. Oakland
12. Baltimore
17. Compton
21. Washington DC
22. Philadelphia
34. Dallas
35. San Bernardino
65. Phoenix
95. Inglewood
100. Boston
102. San Francisco
108. Pomona
114. Hawthorne
118. Lancaster
126. South Gate
129. Denver
150. Carson
153. San Antonio
158. Los Angeles***
161. Long Beach
165. Seattle
184. San Diego
211. Santa Ana
(Out of 385 cities)

Southern California cities ranked as top 50 safest:
2. Mission Viejo
11. Irvine
12. Lake Forest
13. Chino Hills
18. Thousand Oaks
30. Glendale
31. Simi Valley
32. Huntington Beach
37. Orange
40. Santa Clarita
45. Newport Beach
50. Rancho Cucamonga

[JakeInSoCal]

There's two side to LA and people outside CA see. Either a ghetto gangland, or a Hollywood hills super rich movie star scene. But the facts are LA is no where near as bad as Detroit or apparently St. Louis. LA has more gangs than any other city but not as much crime.

[urbancharlotte]

Originally Posted by JakeInSoCal

There's two side to LA and people outside CA see. Either a ghetto gangland, or a Hollywood hills super rich movie star scene. But the facts are LA is no where near as bad as Detroit or apparently St. Louis. LA has more gangs than any other city but not as much crime.

I agree!!! I used to be an over the road trucker and my job took me to places like Fontana, Walnut, Santa Fe Springs so on and so on. I would have to say that the LA area is by far the prettiest and safest big city area I've ever visited in the country!!! This is coming from a guy that lives in North Carolina.

Most people in LA I encountered (people working at the places I delivered to) were very friendly and quite helpful. Often times, I would chat with area drivers on the CB radio. They were very nice and helpful with driving directions around town. The south is known for being friendly, but I know several southerners that are very judgemental and somewhat ignorant to people that are not like them or do not agree with "the southern way". LA is so free by comparison. You can be who you are without fear of being judged. At least it seemed that way to me. This may be why LA just seemed nicer and safer to me than the east coast. The east is kinda uptight. The south is very uptight. Maybe that's why a southern city made the list as most dangerous. It doesn't surprise me at all that southern cities have a presence in the most dangerous list. I am kinda surprised more cities in the south don't.

That said, LA is very clean and safe from what I could see. The traffic is a different story, but that is just the side effects of having an area millions desire. 10 million people can't be wrong.

[AnUnidentifiedMale]

Originally Posted by urbancharlotte

LA is so free by comparison. You can be who you are without fear of being judged.

I think that might be the best thing about L.A. No matter who you are or what you want to do, you'll fit right in.

[firetraq]

Originally Posted by BreaOC

I was in the Minneapolis forum and was reading a post regarding the crime there and how it is worse than both LA and NYC. Now I have told posters inquiring on Los Angeles relocation that it is safer than most major cities in the nation. But I was curious to see the actual overall numbers since the FBI releases violent crime numbers by catagory and not as an overall total. The catagories are murders, rapes, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny theft and vehicle theft.
So the equation (which shows you how bored I was! ) goes like this: add the entire number of violent crimes divided by the population and multiply by 100,000. So for LA the equation is (135,985(crimes)/3,879,455(population))x100,000= 3505 violent crimes per 100,000 people.
So I did this equation for the central city cores of the 20 largest metropolitan areas in the country and here were the results (in order of lowest to highest crimes per 100,000):
NYC 2517
Los Angeles 3505
San Diego 4073
Riverside-San Bernardino 5285
Chicago 5753
Boston 5801
San Francisco 5833
Philadelphia 5837
Washington DC 5919
Phoenix 6672
Miami 6672
Baltimore 6765
Tampa 6792
Houston 7006
Seattle 7483
Minneapolis 7621
Dallas 8063
Atlanta 8188
Detroit 9467
St Louis 14228
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you clearly did not look at new orleans, if you could calculate that, i think you'll find it is number 1.

opps didn't see missionshomes list... well there you go then.

[watts up]

The county l.a isnt bad but the city l.a is bad south central watts in some parts of cpt in inglewood is very bad i been to detroit in visit family in nyc detroit is bad but its bad in a different way l.a ghettos are bad far as gang violence so i wouldnt say detroit or nyc is worse then l.a they all got different problems im from l.a born in raised in watts ca in every night its drive by's as gangs in stuff l.a is way more serious then any other city that ive ever bn to on the west in the east in the south in i bn to oakland that Moderator cut: stuff is bad but not that bad to be ranked 5 l.a was worse for me

[watts up]

Wut part of l.a were u at man
because i take you to some parts of l.a were you cant even get out your trukk at if l.a wasnt as bad as them cities in the east why when every rapper from the east come to l.a not even the ghetto part but holly wood in get punked or killed ?? Tell me that

[CaliDude1]

Originally Posted by allenk893

I've actually been pretty scared to go to LA right now. I heard some little girl got shot by the crips just because she was black. And it isn't the first time something like that happened in LA. What if I want to visit family and they happen to live in the hood. Will I possibly get shot getting out of the car? It's scary.

So the Crips, who are a black gang, shot the girl because she was black? This is what you heard? Kind of hard to take statements as fact when they begin with "I heard...".

[Dark of the Moon]

Originally Posted by watts up

The county l.a isnt bad but the city l.a is bad south central watts in some parts of cpt in inglewood is very bad i been to detroit in visit family in nyc detroit is bad but its bad in a different way l.a ghettos are bad far as gang violence so i wouldnt say detroit or nyc is worse then l.a they all got different problems im from l.a born in raised in watts ca in every night its drive by's as gangs in stuff l.a is way more serious then any other city that ive ever bn to on the west in the east in the south in i bn to oakland that Moderator cut: stuff is bad but not that bad to be ranked 5 l.a was worse for me

I have no idea what you just said ....