The "Dangerous" Areas of LA County? (Los Angeles, San Francisco: crime rates, hotel)

[proteus]

Originally Posted by Jonah K

Officially, "South Central" has been referred to as "South Los Angeles" since 2003 when the L.A. City Council unanimously voted to eliminate to use of the term.

For the most part, "South Los Angeles" is a 16 square mile area south of downtown Los Angeles, bordered by the Santa Monica Freeway (I-10) in the north, the Harbor Freeway (I-110) in the west, the Century Freeway (I-105) in in the south, and the Long Beach Freeway (I-710) in the east. However, the local media expanded the "South Central" moniker to include Baldwin Hills, Windsor Hills, View Park, Leimert Park, Willowbrook, Watts, Ladera Heights as well as the city of Compton and North Long Beach. Generally, anywhere in Los Angeles County that had an African American population has been referred to as "South Central" at one time or another.

There is a lot of envy-based 'perception' and envy-based resentment over what the reality of a 'black neighborhood' in LA has become. The fact of the matter is, if you go here Livingchoices.com: Real Estate - New Homes, Homes for Sale, Apartment Rentals
you'll find that the per capita in come of 'black' Ladera Heights is higher than that of Rancho Palos Verdes Livingchoices.com: Real Estate - New Homes, Homes for Sale, Apartment Rentals

If you go here Livingchoices.com: Real Estate - New Homes, Homes for Sale, Apartment Rentals
you'll find that 'black' Carson's ZIP code is safer (and more populous) than Beverly Hills 90210 Livingchoices.com: Real Estate - New Homes, Homes for Sale, Apartment Rentals
So envious folks can call black neighborhoods 'South Central' all they like, but he blackest neighborhoods in LA are now View Park, Ladera Heights, Baldwin Hills, Windsor Hills, Carson's Dominguez Hills and parts of Altadena - all of which are either more affluent than the average white area or, in regards to Carson, FAR safer.

[katenik]

Originally Posted by Jonah K

Officially, "South Central" has been referred to as "South Los Angeles" since 2003 when the L.A. City Council unanimously voted to eliminate to use of the term.

For the most part, "South Los Angeles" is a 16 square mile area south of downtown Los Angeles, bordered by the Santa Monica Freeway (I-10) in the north, the Harbor Freeway (I-110) in the west, the Century Freeway (I-105) in in the south, and the Long Beach Freeway (I-710) in the east. However, the local media expanded the "South Central" moniker to include Baldwin Hills, Windsor Hills, View Park, Leimert Park, Willowbrook, Watts, Ladera Heights as well as the city of Compton and North Long Beach. Generally, anywhere in Los Angeles County that had an African American population has been referred to as "South Central" at one time or another.

many people paying astronomical rent on the westside would be happy to be able to afford a home like those in some of the communities mentioned above. baldwin hills, windsor hills, and view park have million-dollar+ dwellings with city views to rival hillside communities to the north, but because you have to drive through the mildest parts of "south central" to get to them, many whites in LA don't even know that those neighborhoods are there. to be more precise, i would venture to say that MOST do not.

Originally Posted by DBLAZEMDM

L.A only has a few areas that are bad enough that you "definately" want to stay away from. South Central I don't recommend, East L.A is pretty bad, but remember most of the homicides in L.A are gang related so unless you look,dress, or ARE a gangbanger then you should be ok. North East SFV can be pretty bad but most of the violence is gang fighting over there. To me it really dosent matter. Any real dangerous city you go to isnt going to be that bad for a visitor unless your "looking" for trouble.

You don't sound ignorant, I don't blame you for wondering considering all the L.A gang movies or stories the media feeds out about L.A. As a tourist I wouldn't worry so much, but stay the heck away from south central unless you want to visit Compton which has the worst murder rate per capita in the entire nation. a 10 mile radias and about 70 to 80 homicides a year. Find me a 10 mile radias in the U.S thats that bad.

East Palo Alto in Northern California - Opa-Locka in Florida (Miami district) - Gary in Indiana are closely following behind Compton and are the "runners up" per say.

[itsmevatos]

Cities in LA area you should stay out of are compton, east la, south central, lynwood, watts, parts of long beach, and parts of Inglewood.

[Christopher4sythe]

If you stay around Universal your ok. Go to City Walk its fun and connected to Universal. you could also take the kids to a taping of a show. Go to Audiencesunlimited.com. Its free and fun. There are TONS of shows to choose from and gives them the experience of seeing how it works.

[ChocolateTae]

Originally Posted by itsmevatos

Cities in LA area you should stay out of are compton, east la, south central, lynwood, watts, parts of long beach, and parts of Inglewood.

I'll be moving to socal in about a month and will be spending a lot of time in LA with friends. They live in an area called Mid City, is this near South Central or in it? Before coming to this board I wasn't worried at all about being in South Central, as I'm from Baltimore, MD and lived in Washington D.C. for two years, but now I'm kinda of worried. LOL Should I be or is Mid City an OK area?

[the one]

some parts of mid city are not safe and others are. it depends on where. you have some nice old homes and nice old neghborhoods, it really depends where. but you will be fine for the most part. especially if you are in the pocket north of wash and west of crenshaw. about a 12 block area that is very nice, very uppity and very black. some areas south of wash are also nice. but again it depends where.

[General Patton]

At least in Baghdad, you can carry a gun. If you want to visit for sight seeing, go to Northern Calif. Make sure you are north of Sacramento too.

[Cubancoffee]

I find interesting and somewhat perverted the oneupmanship engaged in here by Angelenos trying to see who can badmouth our city the most. If it's so bad, I wonder why they don't leave. Maybe they're trying to demonstrate how tough they are. ("We can deal with the crime, but you outlanders shouldn't even step foot here.") Or maybe they don't know what they're talking about.

[EGR 818]

Originally Posted by General Patton

At least in Baghdad, you can carry a gun. If you want to visit for sight seeing, go to Northern Calif. Make sure you are north of Sacramento too.

good luck in Baghdad, but i'm doing just fine in LA and i don't need to carry a gun.