25 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in America, Cincinnati Tops List

To the person "STRAIGHT FROM CALIFORNIA". How would you know all the people in those "areas" are "dumb" blacks & mexicans??? You really shouldnt speak if you dont know what your talking about. White people kill too,, you need to get over your racist self! Who cares is they are white, black, green or purple? People just need to stop killing each other. They need to stop hating each other. Its that simple.

BMORE SHOULD BE NUMBER 1 EACH AND EVERY TIME...MOST MURDERS PER 500,000 IN THE COUNTRY....NOT PROUD OF IT BUT IT IS WHAT IT IS...410

Baltimore is a very dangerous place!

#5 Belair and North is very dangerous! 

 #20 Orleans and Front is not very dangerous at least on the outside of the Juvenile Detention Center. The Juvenile facility is located in the area of Orleans and Front, it is likely that the assaults occurring inside of the facilty have been credited to that area. I wonder if such errors have skewed the stats for other cities. 

have any one ever been to gary indiana or southside chicago  if not go there and then come back and do this list

<a href="http://chpn.net/news/2009/06/22/church-hill-called-10th-most-dangerous-neighborhood-in-america/">Church Hill in Richmond, while a neighborhood with quite a past, is not as bad as all that.</a>  The area that is looked at for the 25 Dangerous Neighborhoods article isn't even the most dangerous area in this side of town...

yall people are fckn retarded man, really!!  and what let me guess yall are grown ass men too... damn man.. i wish my hometown was on there... wtf do u want for being a part of a dangerous part of  town? a cookie? crime can happen anywhere..and so can death... maybe if all u "gangsta" turn the guns on yourselves, you can make the the top 25 suicide cities!!

do it , do it!!

no list can be complete without camden or newark nj.

I was surprised at the self-righteous passing of judgement that took place in this forum. 

Several readers of this article ("gangstas") decided to describe their own dangerous neighborhood by offering an honest reaction to the list that included personal experience. This was evident in the response to the article, which was unforunately followed immediately by replies of condemnation. These personal attacks were unnecessary; they only imposed a system of beliefs upon someone who did not share them.

A few questions and comments for those who chose to ridicule the ganstas:

When was the last time you saw a gun? Did you know the person holding it? Was it shown to you as something to admire? Did you sense any hostility? Was the barrel pointed at you? Was your life in serious danger? ... Your selfish posts made me wonder if you have ever been in a dangerous neighborhood. Try being sympathetic to those who do not have your awesome life.

And a few questions and comments for the gangstas:

When was the last time you held a gun? Did you kill someone with it? Have you ever known a father or son that has been killed? ... Your spelling and grammar were horrible; your messages were lost. Stop partying so much; you are all probably really unpleasant to be around.

I have already spent too much time on this reply. In the future, I hope that my desire to learn does not continue to distract me from my responsibilities to my friends and family, at work, and to my own TOTALLY DANGEROUS NEIGHBORHOOD.

thats why you ni**ers dont deserve shit

Was there an actual study done for this?  If so, where is it? 

Here is a thought to all the "gangstas" and ghetto rats.  STOP HAVING KIDS YOU CAN'T SUPPORT.  How many of you came from single parents who were single parents?  How many of you were raised by grandma-ma cause mama was out on the corner?  No money from the government or neighborhood rec centers will make you keep you dick in your pants or for you girls to keep your legs closed.  It is a prepetual problem.  Girl gets pregnant, can't/won't raise her baby properly, that baby grows up without the proper values or knowing how to love another, so they are cold and violent.  Then because they don't care about anything but themselves (learned behavior) they go out and get some girl pregnant or become pregnant and it starts all over again.  This is not a black or white thing.  This is a "stupid, selfish people" thing.  Thank you.

Am I missing something? What does the crime rate have to do with our President? Moreover, he is biracial with a multiracial family and a distant descendant of the same stock that spawned Dick Chaney. He's not the savior of mankind - he's a human and he will make mistakes. The change comes from us not him!

The root cause of most crime is poverty. Where there is no opportunity to improve the only step on the "queer ladder of social mobility" is crime which provides the underclass with unofficial employment, upward mobility, family through gangs and murder to thin the stock in order for the fittest criminal elements to survive and prosper. Eventually as all criminologists realize it becomes legitimate in time only to be replaced by yet another underclass doing the same thing. It's the ever turning wheel of our society.

Surprisingly, Baltimore, one of the most corrupt cities in the Nation yet one with the lowest tax base in Maryland is listed so few times. There isn't a safe corner in the entire place.. What a waste of the talents of the writers of "The Wire" clearly the most accurate portrayal of our dear State and City - they had the right idea. Make everything OK but confine it to one area - clear it of the rest of humanity and let them kill each other anyway they wish-but step out of that parameter and you're history.

We can't stop crime any more than we can remove all the deadbeats who commit it but we can curtail, discourage, confine to one area and observe. Jails are full of primeval ganstas/gangters and we pick up the tab for their health, education and welfare -  Enough already - make drugs and prostitution legal, tax it, give it health care, cut out the middle man and confine it to one place in each city. That way the gangsters get hit where it really hurts - in their fat degenerate wallets!

I am really shocked that Washington D.C. and close-in suburb, Prince Georges County didn't have any neighborhoods on the list. Did they finally get all of the hardheads into jail or rehab. Better watch out, the thugs left in this region may get upset that they didn't make the list and work real hard to be #1 next year.

You can walk in any city in my state whistling the theme song from Mayberry RFD and all you will get is smiles by passer bys.  Sweet Home Alabama, you can have the big cities.  I was in Washington D.C. last week and the city made me want to puke.  Gang members are such jokes.  If I could pass a law, i'd pass a law that states if you are proven to be in a gang, you are automatically executed within 24 hours.  We need to rid this country of human cockroaches.

South Side Chi= Joke

Am I overly optimistic in hoping that New Orleans didn't make the list because our thugs are almost finished killing each other and running out of targets?  Wouldn't that be nice.  Unfortunately, I think it is more likely that our deadbeat police chief Warren Riley is doing his usual great job of undereporting crime, the only thing he does well.  Our best bet these days is that he and Ray Nagin will get hit by errant gunfire.  Too much to hope for?

Oh, and SouthSide ChiTown: kill yourself immediately.  We can't wait long enough for your associates to do it.  What kind of "gangster" posts on the internet anyway?  Oh, I guess the pvssy kind does.

WTF?!? Where is Oakland???

Wow, it's pretty sad that I feel safer in Iraq than I do in my own country. You "gangstas" are a disgrace.....get a life losers

Queencity Blogger: You truly can't be serious. Go out there, more than one day in a row without cops and see what happens. EVERY night there at least one shooting in this city. Yeah, 10 years ago, I didn't feel as unsafe as I do today. I stay far far away from those parts of town, especially at night. They are all like wild animals, you don't want to get to close, make eye contact, or try and talk to them. Just leave them all alone.

As for your "night" out, if it was in 08', ummmm, mainstreet bars have been closed for a LONG time so that was a nice try.

I can't believe my city made this list... I don't think this area is half as dangerous as many other areas around the USA, but I guess I could be wrong... Oh well!

Tina: Thanks for posting this. I live in Miami and can vouch for 7th Ave and North River Drive. I also lived in Cleveland in the past with Cedar Ave and 55th St being dangerous as well.

I live in Baltimore and I grew up in both of the neighborhoods on the list. I am a prime example that it's not where you are from, it's where you are going that matters. I am so sick of the The "white man" is stopping me excuse. The "white man" wants nothing more for you to continue on reppin your hoods and getting the "respect" that you feel as though you dont get from him. The "white man" did not put your neighborhood on this list, you did!

I love my race but I get so fustrated when I see ignorace like this and people bragging about how dangerous their hood is. We all cant be rappers, singers, althletes, and the avergare life span of a drug dealer is maybe 5 years. So whats your plan B? Wake up and learn the game! I work a 9-5 job where sometimes I have to kiss the "white man's" ass and no I dont like it but I need a job and more than that I need the experience so that I can be the "white man" one day and be the open door for someone behind me. Dont you understand that is what the game is. Sometimes you have to endure the BS to get things out of life. Yes the odds are stacked against you, yes there will be all kinds of obstacles in your way but you have to overcome them to get anything that worth having.

I will leave you with this thought because I can go on forever about this. Have you ever seen an Asian family living in poverty, or subject themselves to the conditions of some of these neighborhoods? If so its very rare. They are not all rich, in fact some of them are more poverty stricken than most when they first arrive in the county. What they are rich in is family values and supporting their communities and it reflects throughout their entire race. They know how to play the game! Watch and Learn!!

I thinks the bloods and the krips are fine light panty liners.

the real men wear kilts and swing full broadswords at your @$$.

the worst neighborhood is TUCSON  ORACLE AND ORANGE GROVE.

Can't get no parking spaces. People make mean faces at me. Too many honking horns.

Three people got overcharged at the CVS pharmacy yesterday !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your a bo-becha. A real three timer, a nuggi pooser .

Just to be clear, the gangs in these areas, regardless of who they are, are not getting any awards, prizes or reality tv shows  for their contribution to the killings, assault's and rapes. The sad part is they think this is some kind of contest. However, there are no winners.

If they are really concerned about their respect and welfare, they could harness their so called power and do some real good....for themselves and others. Instead they perpetuate their own hell. Dieing and killing your own kind is about as lame as any suicide terrorist bomber. I say round up all these thugs and send them into combat to fight the real enemies!

How sad and it's out in the suburbs too!

All black infested places no doubt animals, go back to your filthy africa !

I'm curious as to whether or not graffiti is included in property crime. This could make areas where laws against graffiti are over-enforced seem statistically far more dangerous than they actually are; I know in Cincinnati it's easy to get arrested for vandalism, although it's not a dangerous crime at all. I went to a high-school in Over the Rhine, and the only real crime that I knew about was an unarmed black kid who got shot by the police with his back to them.