West Baltimore vs Harlem in the 80's (state, better, crime)

[PurpleHaze1100]

How does West Baltimore currently stack up to Harlem in the 80's. Both are known as notorious drug havens with crime, prostitution, and murders. How are they similar demographically and culturally?

[mrfoe]

Miami, Houston, LA, and Detroit had much worse drug and crime promlems than Bmore at the time.

[mrfoe]

Harlem was a warzone in the 70s and 80s a lot of drug dealers where making 500,000 or more a year. NYC owned the east coast drug trade at that time. The crack epidemic hit every city hard. Houston was hit very hard but what made Houston even worse was the high amount of cartel activity going on as well. Cartels are less violent today. Houston in the late 70s to early 80s averaged 600 plus homicides yearly. In 1981 murders peaked at 701. At a pop of 1.2 million at the time.

[mrfoe]

Alot of drugs in Bmore to this day comes from nyc.

[skins_fan82]

you'd be better off heading 20 miles south to DC...and going back in time 15-20 years to the early-mid 90s when DC was the murder capital of the USA for several years.

DC has been gentrified to hell, it's not nearly as "ghetto" as it was in the 90s. West Baltimore today is still pretty rough, but not nearly as bad as DC used to be.

[DANNNY__]

Originally Posted by mrfoe

Miami, Houston, LA, and Detroit had much worse drug and crime promlems than Bmore at the time.

I think he's talking about Baltimore in its current state vs. Harlem in the 1980's.

[mrfoe]

Originally Posted by DANNNY__

I think he's talking about Baltimore in its current state vs. Harlem in the 1980's.

Harlem in the 80s was a nightmare compared to today. The only areas that can compare today is some of the border areas as far as drug traffic.