25 Most Dangerous 'hoods (Indianapolis, Gary, Marion: violent crime, houses, neighborhoods)

[msamhunter]

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What Indianapolis with two *cough*. Didn't know you took your life into your hands when going the Childrens Museum. Oh wait you don't. I've been in my fair share of hoods including the top 4 and by no means should any Indianapolis hood make this list. In all honesty, Gary has average hoods worse than anything Indianapolis can throw at it.

[grmasterb]

Interesting. I wouldn't have thought of those 2 hoods as the worst in Indy, let alone the country.

[msamhunter]

Originally Posted by grmasterb

Interesting. I wouldn't have thought of those 2 hoods as the worst in Indy, let alone the country.

By all accounts, the meadows and haughville are worse than those two areas. For anyone who's ever been to say 3rd Ward New Orleans or certain hoods in Baltimore, would take this as a grain of salt.

[ColdAilment]

The 17th most dangerous neighborhood in the country houses the largest Children's Museum in the country? I see the statistics, and the surrounding area isn't the best, but I haven't felt unsafe there. They may want to take a few other statistics into consideration when making this type of list.

[mike0618]

I have lived in flint michigan and it is way way way worse than 19th both those indy areas are much safer especally the childrens museum area.

[Toxic Toast]

I wonder aloud if the stats on the area by the Children's Museum are skewed by the relatively low population of the area, since that is a criteria used in the rankings if I read that correctly. You have Meridian Park there, and then, a Museum, school, a lot of abandoned houses with a lot of people passing through. I have heard that area between 34th and 38th Streets west of Meridian described as a war zone at times, so I guess its not that shocking to see an adjacent area as a statistically dangerous area.

[domergurl]

If you park in the garage at the children's museum, you don't have to set foot outside ...

that's just one odd list ... no NYC neighborhoods? No LA neighborhoods?

[bertrandandjules]

Originally Posted by Toxic Toast

I wonder aloud if the stats on the area by the Children's Museum are skewed by the relatively low population of the area, since that is a criteria used in the rankings if I read that correctly. You have Meridian Park there, and then, a Museum, school, a lot of abandoned houses with a lot of people passing through. I have heard that area between 34th and 38th Streets west of Meridian described as a war zone at times, so I guess its not that shocking to see an adjacent area as a statistically dangerous area.

I thought that area was weird too. It must be due to the problems on the west side of Meridian, because the east side these days is pretty darn nice.

I also noticed that the website said that the neighborhood had more same-sex couples than 99% of neighborhoods, or something like that. This description completely gels with the east side of Meridian--but not the west side.

[rastie]

I live in crown hill. Certain streets bring the whole neighborhood down. Kenwood between 30th and 38th is absolutely insane. Though with all rough neighborhoods most of the violent crime isn't against random people but against other thugs. I'm as white as they come and I don't feel in danger at all coming home at 3 am. But at the same time you need to be alert. Like with most area's of the city keep your head on a swivel if you are alone after dark. I have seen my share of violence over here though. The guy across the street from me was murdered in September, and just a couple weeks ago some kids were shooting dice behind the house next to me when another guy came up and robbed them all at gunpoint. I was doing dishes and looking right out my window at them. Second time in 2 years I have seen a dice game get robbed. I hate seeing these things and wish there were answer's to these types of social problems.

Bertranandjules: I don't know the actual statistics on this neighborhood but I know on Illinois st on my block there are 4 same sex couples within a few houses of me.

[brightln]

The only reason Indianapolis isn't ranked in the top 5 most dangerous cities year after year is because it's merged with Marion county.

I've been everywhere.

An I can honestly say I've never been in a worst neighborhood than East Indianapolis.

If Indianapolis wasn't merged with "Marion County"

Most dangerous cities would look like this somewhat

1 Detroit
2 Flint
3 Indianapolis
4 St Louis


There were 10,000 violent crimes last year in Indianapolis.

That's more than a 1,000 more violent crimes than Baltimore.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr...souri_2012.xls

A few years ago Indianapolis had 12,000 violent crimes in a year, that's mind boggling.

Indianapolis has a huge crime problem.

I visited Indianapolis from Nashville, and Louisville. An Indianapolis is 10 times worst than either of those cities.