Miami's ghetto areas (pictures included) (Hialeah, Miami Springs: apartments, violent crime, tenant)

[Cougar Beach]

Originally Posted by Chelsa1075

I'm not sure exactly where I would rank the city, but coming from NYC, I am familiar with bad areas. However, I think southern poverty is on a different scale than the NE. Both are bad obviously, but NYC in the late 70's (when Ghetto's were Ghetto's) was a very different place from today. That poverty level, I believe has not changed as much for the southern states. I think the most impoverished place I have ever seen was Baltimore. I couldn't even believe people actually lived like that.

In the mid-80's a friend and I arrived at the Greyhound station in Baltimore at around 3 AM. It was in the middle of a tough neighborhood. I agree with you. I never saw anything like it in Miami-Dade.

[Chelsa1075]

I know, I mean I was a kid when I hung out there. As a kid your idea of danger is obviously very different than as an adult, but I think back now and am like what the hell were you thinkin chelsa. I hear that it has changed, but not enough for me.

[lionking]

Having lived in Miami most of my life till 2 years ago when I escaped,those pics bring back not to distant memories.I live on the west coast FL now,Orlando and Tampa have their sections but in general not as bad as Miami.

When I left 2 years ago I drove for 2 months across much of America except far west coast California. cities in Alabama,Memphis,are much worse than Miami though in terms of ghetto.In Miami I never felt scared driving thru Liberty city or Homestead.In Memphis andBirmingham I did feel scared even in the day time.

So I rank Miami a 6 to 7 in ghetto.But places like LA and NYC probably alot worse than Miami.Been in Baltimore also,that city is trashed...and then there is DC.

[somebodymiami]

Miami-Dade ended 2008 with 259 homicides

[cuba libre]

Originally Posted by somebodymiami

Miami-Dade ended 2008 with 259 homicides

Population control in our inner cities; Miami is no different. I think this number is much lower than it was in the 1980's. Anyone know what the homicide count was for any given year druing the 80's?

[somebodymiami]

http://www.miamidade.gov/medexam/Statistics.htm

Originally Posted by cuba libre

Population control in our inner cities; Miami is no different. I think this number is much lower than it was in the 1980's. Anyone know what the homicide count was for any given year druing the 80's?

[cityrover]

Originally Posted by ddrox08

Well it's been a heated debate on how bad Dade County's rough areas are.
Today I decided to ride around with my pal to take photo's of Dade's less
pleasing areas. Do you think these areas are to par with other large cities
and on a scale from 1 to 10 with 10 being the worst, How would you rate
dade county ghetto's? These are just a few pictures below.

Next time you lift material from google streetview, at least have the decency to not lie about it............

[ddrox08]

Originally Posted by cityrover

Next time you lift material from google streetview, at least have the decency to not lie about it............

Yeah, about my friend.. He's a computer

[intil90]

Haven't seen many bad hoods outside of Chicago. However I did read that Englewood in Chicago had 81 murders between Jan and April of 91...by my calculation that comes out to over 200 murders/100k...way above anything else I've ever seen.

It's definitely gotten a lot better, but can anything compete with that type of crime? I'd love to know what the murder rate in Chicago's housing projects were...probably worse than a lot of 3rd world areas. Police getting sniped, schools closing until gangs stop fighting..pretty bad stuff.

[Cougar Beach]

Aren't the infamous housing projects around Chicago disappearing as their areas have become gentrified? East St. Louis was also mentioned as a hotspot.

There are probably more handguns in some neighborhoods than there are in a lot of third world countries. In fact, I don't know why you assume that the typical third world country is necessarily violent. (For example, I'll bet that Cuba is a lot less violent than Miami-Dade.)