What is the most dangerous city in PG county (Bowie: townhomes, new construction)

[EdwardA]

Originally Posted by EducatedBro82

This needs to be closed

Why? Maybe merged. We probably should have a PG sucks sticky or something. Or a sticky for PG schools and PG crime.

[Missingatlanta]

Originally Posted by pgtvatitans

Can you post the statistics for that area?

Point being, when you counter your points when someone says something like that (which I didn't even say I agreed with his point), you hurt your point when you exaggerate, which no offense, you do often on here. I'm just sitting here thinking, like really, you don't have to exaggerate just to prove your point. Just give people facts as they are.

I agree NoVA has gang issues. I know there are Asian gangs in Annandale, some hispanic gangs in the Manassas area and perhaps some sprinkled around other areas, but to say it's HEAVY? I don't know, maybe you have some information that is going to shock me. If it's not being reported in the news media, but you still know this, then I'm assuming you have a source of information that you can share with us

My DH works with social services and the court system in Nova. He says the gangs over there aren't really killing people, they are mostly dealing drugs. He says they try and stay under the radar because of the money they make over there. One thing he told me is that Nova has the most multi-cultural gangs he's ever seen, as in you'll have a gang and it looks like a United Nations convention.

[justtitans]

Originally Posted by Missingatlanta

My DH works with social services and the court system in Nova. He says the gangs over there aren't really killing people, they are mostly dealing drugs. He says they try and stay under the radar because of the money they make over there. One thing he told me is that Nova has the most multi-cultural gangs he's ever seen, as in you'll have a gang and it looks like a United Nations convention.

Wouldn't doubt it. Never said that gangs don't exist there, I just wondered if saying that they were 'heavy' was accurate.

Anyway this thread is really becoming stupid. No one has talked about a dangerous PG town for a few pages.

[molukai]

You know a non dangerous pg town? Fort Washington. Crime there according to online crime reporting sites consistently show it as having virtually no crime, and definitely less crime than the seriously overhyped nova side of Alexandria. We have kids that play outside unsupervised in the neighborhood in the evening because it is that safe. And with that fort Washington police station coming in, I can expect police response times to be a mere few minutes if god forbid anything does happen!

[fortwashingtonkid]

Originally Posted by pgtvatitans

Wouldn't doubt it. Never said that gangs don't exist there, I just wondered if saying that they were 'heavy' was accurate.

Anyway this thread is really becoming stupid. No one has talked about a dangerous PG town for a few pages.

I know there are decent pockets in each bad community but I'll give it a shot...

I would stay away from...

District heights
Temple Hills
Suitland/Seat Pleasant/silver Hill/Marlow heights
Forest heights
Forestville
Langley Park
Camp Springs
Kettering
Landover
Lanham
Oxon Hill
Capitol Heights
Greenbelt
Riverdale
Beltsville
Cheverly
New Carrolton
Largo
Bladensburg

Fort Washington is nice I guess but it's not what it once was. Perhaps it's improving. Clinton and Mitchellville are pretty suburban and they are completely black. Accokeek is rural and black. Brandywine is rural and black. Croom is mixed but way out there. Bowie is mostly black and a nice community for the most part. Laurel and UM have white pockets but are mostly black. Those two communities are a little nicer than the ones listed above. Cheltenham is black and rural. Hyattsville area is a mixed bag. Lots of blacks and Hispanics along with a few whites and Asians. A lot of people on here defend Hyattsville. I grew up in Maryland and Hyattsville was always known as a rough place (80's and 90's). The housing stock in Hyattsville is very nice. Lots of charming old homes and neighborhoods like Mt. Ranier, Berwyn Heights (over half white), Cottage City, Edmonson and a few others. Still, I wouldn't call the area "safe" as it borders on some rough DC hoods as well as having it's own riff-raff too.

[justtitans]

Originally Posted by molukai

You know a non dangerous pg town? Fort Washington. Crime there according to online crime reporting sites consistently show it as having virtually no crime, and definitely less crime than the seriously overhyped nova side of Alexandria. We have kids that play outside unsupervised in the neighborhood in the evening because it is that safe. And with that fort Washington police station coming in, I can expect police response times to be a mere few minutes if god forbid anything does happen!

I've mentioned this before, but you can't compare a city like Alexandria to a suburban town like Fort Washington, it's an apples and oranges comparison. Alexandria is much more densely populated, has wider range of socio economics and has easier access to get to than Fort Washington.

Fort Washington isn't bad though, but I thought this was about the most dangerous not the most non-dangerous? You sure you aren't getting paid for this?

[justtitans]

Originally Posted by fortwashingtonkid

Fort Washington is nice I guess but it's not what it once was. Perhaps it's improving. Clinton and Mitchellville are pretty suburban and they are completely black. Accokeek is rural and black. Brandywine is rural and black. Croom is mixed but way out there. Bowie is mostly black and a nice community for the most part. Laurel and UM have white pockets but are mostly black. Those two communities are a little nicer than the ones listed above. Cheltenham is black and rural. Hyattsville area is a mixed bag. Lots of blacks and Hispanics along with a few whites and Asians. A lot of people on here defend Hyattsville. I grew up in Maryland and Hyattsville was always known as a rough place (80's and 90's). The housing stock in Hyattsville is very nice. Lots of charming old homes and neighborhoods like Mt. Ranier, Berwyn Heights (over half white), Cottage City, Edmonson and a few others. Still, I wouldn't call the area "safe" as it borders on some rough DC hoods as well as having it's own riff-raff too.

Accokeek isn't as mixed as it used to be, but there is still a very sizable non-black population there. I don't know if we should classify it as rural anymore either. Since I moved from there I counted at least 11 new subdivisions. It has lost some of it's character and become suburban. Ironically there was a strong push years ago to get a Walmart down there but residents blocked it because they didn't want the crime, but instead now they have the traffic.

[EducatedBro82]

Originally Posted by fortwashingtonkid

I know there are decent pockets in each bad community but I'll give it a shot...

I would stay away from...

District heights
Temple Hills
Suitland/Seat Pleasant/silver Hill/Marlow heights
Forest heights
Forestville
Langley Park
Camp Springs
Kettering
Landover
Lanham
Oxon Hill
Capitol Heights
Greenbelt
Riverdale
Beltsville
Cheverly
New Carrolton
Largo
Bladensburg

Fort Washington is nice I guess but it's not what it once was. Perhaps it's improving. Clinton and Mitchellville are pretty suburban and they are completely black. Accokeek is rural and black. Brandywine is rural and black. Croom is mixed but way out there. Bowie is mostly black and a nice community for the most part. Laurel and UM have white pockets but are mostly black. Those two communities are a little nicer than the ones listed above. Cheltenham is black and rural. Hyattsville area is a mixed bag. Lots of blacks and Hispanics along with a few whites and Asians. A lot of people on here defend Hyattsville. I grew up in Maryland and Hyattsville was always known as a rough place (80's and 90's). The housing stock in Hyattsville is very nice. Lots of charming old homes and neighborhoods like Mt. Ranier, Berwyn Heights (over half white), Cottage City, Edmonson and a few others. Still, I wouldn't call the area "safe" as it borders on some rough DC hoods as well as having it's own riff-raff too.

Im confused as to how you would stay away form these areas. Greenbelt has maybe 1 rough area? (SpringHill Lake) And there are a lot of White residents in Greenbelt, especially the Old Greenbelt area. Beltsville has a bad area? Where would that be? White epeople live in Beltsville, especilly the Vansville/Muirkirk Road, Edmonson Road area and Calverton Area/CrossCreek Golf Community. Since when was Kettering dangerous? The only thing I can say that makes it dangerous is the residents as the homes are being rented out to the Section 8 holders.

Brandywine borders Charles County and will I thought still had a white population.

Bowie, Laurel, & UM will always have a sizeable white population as they border another county (AA, Howard, &Calvert Counties) Laurel due to the ICC, BRAC, and upcoming LTC will draw more white Families.

[EdwardA]

Originally Posted by EducatedBro82

Im confused as to how you would stay away form these areas. Greenbelt has maybe 1 rough area? (SpringHill Lake) And there are a lot of White residents in Greenbelt, especially the Old Greenbelt area. Beltsville has a bad area? Where would that be? White epeople live in Beltsville, especilly the Vansville/Muirkirk Road, Edmonson Road area and Calverton Area/CrossCreek Golf Community. Since when was Kettering dangerous? The only thing I can say that makes it dangerous is the residents as the homes are being rented out to the Section 8 holders.

Brandywine borders Charles County and will I thought still had a white population.

Bowie, Laurel, & UM will always have a sizeable white population as they border another county (AA, Howard, &Calvert Counties) Laurel due to the ICC, BRAC, and upcoming LTC will draw more white Families.

Quite a few Whites in Brandywine heck we still got quite a few up route 5 in Camp Springs. Kettering homes are going Section 8? That's sad. I remember when my mom was house shopping in the mid 90s how much she liked that area.

[EdwardA]

Originally Posted by pgtvatitans

Accokeek isn't as mixed as it used to be, but there is still a very sizable non-black population there. I don't know if we should classify it as rural anymore either. Since I moved from there I counted at least 11 new subdivisions. It has lost some of it's character and become suburban. Ironically there was a strong push years ago to get a Walmart down there but residents blocked it because they didn't want the crime, but instead now they have the traffic.

I still don't think any of these are truly dangerous. Now whether they are desirable places to live that's a whole other topic.