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Miami-Dade County *feels* like the most dangerous county in the US, IMO--lots of ghetto thugs, shady transients, bizarre criminals, people with bad intentions.
To the OP question I don't think there is a way to quantify which county is the most dangerous since most of the danger is for the most part is found in the most populated parts of a county. No matter how you spin it you will end up talking about the metro or city instead of the county. Don't have to worry about much in the middle of nowhere or a dead zone, maybe a bear or coyote ha!
Since Cleveland has some close-by suburbs with a higher crime rate than Cleveland itself, I would think that Cuyahoga County, OH would be in the top five.
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I think Philadelphia county would be the most dangerous county. There are no suburbs in the county to bring down the high crime rate in the city of Philadelphia. Also worth mentioning are Fulton county (Atlanta), Cook County (Chicago), but both of those counties have suburbs that bring down the crime rate.
For Atlanta, you are correct in that the northern third of Fulton County would dilute the overall crime rate. The more obvious candidate would be Clayton County.
Nobody mentioned or really heard of Prince George's County, MD. It has calmed down alot but always used to have over a 100 murders a year. Back in 07 I think it peaked at 173 murders and actually had more than DC's 169 that year.
I say counties where danger occurs is"
LA county
Miami-Dade
Harris County, TX
Prince Georges County, Md
Dekalb County, GA
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Depends on what color you are. There are still some sundown towns in the USA. Like in Northwestern Missouri. And some amazingly corrupt cops. Would you consider a notorious speed trap to make a county "dangerous"?
I realize that "sundown town" refers to areas where blacks are targeted after dark, but what is the reciprocal equivalent? There are a number of places where any white person walking around after dark would be set upon . . . is there an equivalent name for such a place?
There are a number of "county-equivalent" independent cities that would probably qualify.
Baltimore city, MD
St. Louis, MO
Richmond, VA; Norfolk, VA; Petersburg, VA; Portsmouth, VA
Washington, DC
And the counties that compose NYC, particularly Bronx County, NY. Philadelphia County, PA would probably be up there too.
There are a number of "county-equivalent" independent cities that would probably qualify.
Baltimore city, MD
St. Louis, MO
Richmond, VA; Norfolk, VA; Petersburg, VA; Portsmouth, VA
Washington, DC
And the counties that compose NYC, particularly Bronx County, NY. Philadelphia County, PA would probably be up there too.
What do you mean by this. Baltimore city is independent of the county and they are night and day. DC is independent of its Counties but very similar in terms of its border with PG.
You can't compare them. On the one hand, Houston is at the center of Harris County, with all of the city and some of the suburbs within the county. That is a very different demographic mix than St. Louis, which is divided into St. Louis City (the old central core) and St. Louis County (the suburban expansion). Each of them has its own demography and its own crime incidence. You'd have to combine the crime rates of St. Louis City and St. Louis County (along with St. Clair County Illinois) in order to get a statistic that can be compared with Harris County Texas.
And, it is silly to nitpick over whether a place, according to varying state laws of municipality, is technically called a county or not. Denver and San Francisco are "counties" but St. Louis and Baltimore are not, but the distinction is way too irrelevant to disqualify one because it cannot be legally called a county in that state. Louisiana has no counties at all, but that should not disqualify it from having its "county equivalents" compared with others.
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I realize that "sundown town" refers to areas where blacks are targeted after dark, but what is the reciprocal equivalent? There are a number of places where any white person walking around after dark would be set upon . . . is there an equivalent name for such a place?
Yes. "Dangerous", in both instances, which is the topic at hand.
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