Is there a Ghetto of St. Paul, if so which side, North, South etc. (Minneapolis: crimes, house)

[Laggard]

Originally Posted by audadvnc

OTOH my daughter's friend at Benilde is a classmate of the boy that had his back broken playing hockey the other day.Is anybody asking for hockey to be outlawed??

1. You choose to take part in a risky activity.

2. Checks from behind will likely be banned.

[Govie]

Frogtown always pops into my mind first and foremost. The East Side is going downhill now but it's still pretty good. I've never been afraid of walking at two in the morning on the East Side, even when the Asian gang beat that woman walking Lake Phalen a few years back.

[ManBearPig1]

Originally Posted by Clifford63

I personally am not going to dismiss a child dying as a "freak accident".

So the next time a child is killed from being hit by a car, you're going to want us to do something about all the driving going on then?

[audadvnc]

Of course, you could be taking a vacation on a luxury cruise ship off Italy and run afoul of destiny too...

[Clifford63]

Originally Posted by ManBearPig1

So the next time a child is killed from being hit by a car, you're going to want us to do something about all the driving going on then?

Wow.

[Clifford63]

Originally Posted by audadvnc

Of course, you could be taking a vacation on a luxury cruise ship off Italy and run afoul of destiny too...

I did not go into great detail regarding the entire list of things that bother me or tragic ways a person might die. I basically said some areas of the city have more gunshots than others, and it makes me sick to hear about a child dying from gunshots. First point was a fact, second part was an opinion. I was not bashing anyone or any part of the city.

[tvdxer]

Every city has "bad" parts. They might not be as bad as some neighborhoods of Gary, East St. Louis, or Detroit, but they have higher rates of crime and the social diseases that often are associated with crime than the other neighborhoods of the city. "Ghettos" is the common term used for these neighborhoods. I don't see how people get up in arms over this.

[Netdiver]

I've been a lurker of this forum for awhile. Just registered in order to give a response to all the folks saying there are no "bad" parts of the Twin Cities. I live in Brooklyn Center, and take the 22-route bus through North Minneapolis to school every day. Parts of it are just fine. Others, such as N Lyndale through Camden and around West Broadway Ave, are not. Lots of boarded up/foreclosed houses, bars on the windows of every business, and I even pass by a supermarket near Lowry that has a line of obvious bulletholes in its brick wall. And on the other side of Minneapolis, I had an unpleasant experience at a Phillips gas station in the middle of the night, being eyed by a tweaker who was blatantly smoking meth right in front of the store (while two or three police cars sped by in the time I was filling up my car).

No doubt it's not as bad as Detroit or Cabrini-Green, but you've got to be delusional to think that the Twin Cities are the crime-free paradise a lot of people are making it out to be.

In terms of sheer statistics, Minneapolis has a considerably higher rate of crime than St. Paul. According to neighborhood scout, Minneapolis is actually #62 on the list of 100 most dangerous cities in the US (with a higher crime rate than Milwaukee, Chicago, or Trenton) and St. Paul doesn't even register.

[Govie]

Originally Posted by Netdiver

I've been a lurker of this forum for awhile. Just registered in order to give a response to all the folks saying there are no "bad" parts of the Twin Cities. I live in Brooklyn Center, and take the 22-route bus through North Minneapolis to school every day. Parts of it are just fine. Others, such as N Lyndale through Camden and around West Broadway Ave, are not. Lots of boarded up/foreclosed houses, bars on the windows of every business, and I even pass by a supermarket near Lowry that has a line of obvious bulletholes in its brick wall. And on the other side of Minneapolis, I had an unpleasant experience at a Phillips gas station in the middle of the night, being eyed by a tweaker who was blatantly smoking meth right in front of the store (while two or three police cars sped by in the time I was filling up my car).

No doubt it's not as bad as Detroit or Cabrini-Green, but you've got to be delusional to think that the Twin Cities are the crime-free paradise a lot of people are making it out to be.

In terms of sheer statistics, Minneapolis has a considerably higher rate of crime than St. Paul. According to neighborhood scout, Minneapolis is actually #62 on the list of 100 most dangerous cities in the US (with a higher crime rate than Milwaukee, Chicago, or Trenton) and St. Paul doesn't even register.

I find it extremely laughable to say Minneapolis has more crime than Chicago or Milwaukee. I can't count how many welfare cases have migrated to the TC from places like Milwaukee and Chicago to get away from crime in those places and say they like it here so much better.

Your source is just flat out wrong.

[snofarmer]

We use to call Minneapolis Murderaplois for a reason.