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- [Briggs] What is going on, everyone?
Welcome back to the "World According to Briggs"
and a video about dangerous neighborhoods
in some of the worst cities in the United States.
Even the worst cities any state has to offer
has some nice neighborhoods
and some have some incredibly bad neighborhoods.
West Los Angeles and east Los Angeles are a perfect example.
West LA is mostly filled with million dollar homes
with nice lawns.
While east LA is a place with police tape on the lawns
and most people wouldn't live there
if you offer them a million dollars.
A quick heads up on this video,
locals sometimes call these neighborhoods different things.
I use the actual name that the state has down.
So if people not from the area wanna look it up,
they know what they're looking for.
They also like to argue that these places
aren't as bad as other places
and other places are much worse.
Everyone has an opinion on things like that.
That's why we use the stats given by the FBI.
All right, let's take a look
at the most dangerous neighborhoods
in some of the worst cities.
Number 10, Camden, New Jersey.
Our old friend, Camden.
Camden is not a great place to live.
Yeah, don't move there.
But especially don't move to Ferry Avenue
in South Eighth street.
That's a neighborhood there
that's not doing good things.
You have about four neighborhoods in Camden
that are equally as dangerous as the next.
They all have very similar stats.
It's like there's only so much suckage
you can achieve in a place
and not be allowed to go above that.
But Ferry Avenue and Eighth Street
have it a little bit worse.
On the map, it's called Centerville.
So if you're looking for it,
just look for Centerville.
That's the area.
Their crime rate is 89% higher than the national average
and their violent crime rate is 519% higher
than the national average.
Good God.
The poverty rate in Camden, New Jersey
is 154% higher than national average.
Don't live here.
Number nine, Washington, DC.
The most violent and dangerous place
you can move to in Washington, D.C.
is Deanwood.
Deanwood is in the Eastern portion of DC,
right on the Maryland border.
Honestly, it doesn't look terrible.
A lot of their violence comes from domestic abuse calls.
So it's not your stereotypical street violence
going on here.
Now, don't get me wrong.
They have plenty of that.
It's just one of the things that's driving
their violent crime stat
is the domestic abuse thing.
Their crime rate is 259% higher
than the national average,
and their violent crime rate is 637% higher
than the national average.
Their poverty level isn't terrible.
It's only 5% higher than the national average,
but typical of an area with a boatload of domestic calls,
the neighborhood's unemployment rate
is 144% higher than the national average.
That one's weird.
You'd think with that high of an unemployment rate,
they'd have a lot more poverty,
but I guess the people that are working
have really good jobs or something.
Number eight, Memphis, Tennessee.
The most dangerous place to live in Memphis, Tennessee
is downtown Memphis.
Normally in cities with all kinds of problems,
it's not the downtown area that's terrible,
there's a few that are like that,
but most cities will keep the downtown area
as nice as they can.
Memphis has their own agenda.
Now, they do have some other areas
that are more rundown, I would say.
Downtown Memphis, doesn't look horrible?
It just got a lot of crime.
The crime rate in downtown Memphis
is 663% higher than the national average,
and their violent crime rate
is 709% higher than the national average.
The poverty rate in downtown Memphis
is 83% higher than the national average.
Number seven, Chicago, Illinois.
The most dangerous place to live currently in Chicago
is West Garfield.
Statistically, Chicago isn't the worst city.
Different media outlets portray the place
as a fricking war zone.
It's not.
They have some neighborhoods like West Garfield
that are crazy dangerous,
but most of Chicago's really nice.
They've led the country in murders a few times
in the last handful of years,
but with a population of 2.6 million in the city
and just under 10 million in the Metro area,
their per capita is low.
And normally, they end up ranking somewhere around
the 25th most dangerous city in the nation or so
for murder rates.
West Garfield, I guess,
is trying to move Chicago into the top 10.
They're tired of being 25th.
They wanna put out the effort
and get them towards number one.
West Garfield Chicago's crime rate
is 396% higher than the national average
and their violent crime rate
is 778% higher than the national average.
The poverty rate in West Garfield, Chicago
is 44% higher than the national average.
Number six, Little Rock, Arkansas.
The most dangerous place to live in Little Rock, Arkansas
is South End.
Pine Bluff, which is another city in Arkansas
should be on this list,
but really they don't have any bad neighborhoods.
The whole place sucks
so it's hard to pick out one neighborhood
and they're a little bit small for this list.
So in case you wanna leave that comment,
we're sticking with Little Rock.
Little rock has been dangerous since forever,
and it doesn't look like it's going to change anytime soon.
South End is a horrible place to live or visit.
Their crime rate is 248% higher than the national average
and their violent crime rate
is 788% higher than the national average.
The poverty level in South End
is 18% higher than the national average.
Number five, San Bernardino, California.
And I have a hard time saying that
because growing up, we called it San Bernardino.
Just really quick rolls off your tongue,
but it's actually Bernard Ino.
Anyway, moving on.
The worst place to live in San Bernardino
is Feldheym.
San Bernardino is in the Southern California outback
and it's where Los Angeles sends all its (indistinct).
The city has a few okay neighborhoods,
but a bunch that really suck.
The king of the hill when it comes to suckage
is Feldheym.
This is a popular place to acquire hourly companionship
and street pharmaceuticals.
It's also a good place to be assaulted.
And it shows,
their stats are horrible.
The overall crime here
is 234% higher than the national average,
violent crime is 811% above the national average.
Now, oddly enough,
their poverty level is even with the national average,
but the unemployment rate
is 95% higher than the national average in Feldheym.
Number four, Baltimore, Maryland.
The most place to live in Baltimore, Maryland
is Hopkins Middle East.
This isn't a great neighborhood.
Matter of fact, if you look at it,
it looks like a street scene movie set
for a film about a city overrun by gangs,
poverty,
and residents that can't do minor home repairs.
Almost like every house here is run down.
I saw one guy on a YouTube channel trying to argue
that this part of Baltimore really isn't that bad.
The dude had a better chance of convincing people
water is kind of dry.
The overall crime in Hopkins, Middle East
is 340% above the national average,
and their violent crime rate
is 848% higher than the national average.
The residents here enjoy a poverty level
that is only 5% higher than national average,
but their unemployment rate
is 85% higher than the national average.
You have no reason to go here
unless you're a brave and desperate sales rep
from Home Depot
and you're looking to make some sales.
Number three, St. Louis, Missouri.
The most dangerous place to live in St. Louis
is Peabody-Darst-Webbe.
This is not a great neighborhood
and I'm sorry if I mispronounced it.
The stats on this place are incredibly bad.
This neighborhood has some housing authority projects
in here called Peabody.
And whenever that happens,
the neighborhood's not gonna be good.
But these ones don't look that bad.
I've seen way worse projects than these ones.
They really don't look that bad,
but the crime rate is through the roof here.
Let me give you the stats.
The overall crime rate in Peabody-Darst-Webbe
is 420% higher than the national average.
Their violent crime rate
is 1,129% above the national average.
Congratulations St. Louis,
you really got it together here.
This one is kind of bizarre
because I couldn't really find
how high the poverty level here was.
I couldn't find it.
Actually, nobody did a survey on it or something.
There's no stats that I could find,
but their unemployment rate
is 129% higher than the national average.
Numbers two, Kansas city, Missouri.
Look at that.
Missouri shows up twice in the top five.
Go big or go home, I guess.
The most dangerous place to live in Kansas city, Missouri
is a small little square called
Marlborough Heights, Marlborough pride,
Kansas city, Missouri.
Yeah, this place is not good.
I did see a news report
where they were trying to say
that the crime trends are going downward
and the place is turning it around.
And I don't know, then 2020 happened
and everything went to hell
because it's not really getting that much better.
What's strange about this one
is right across the Kansas border,
like a 15 minute drive away
is one of the best suburbs in the United States,
Overland Park.
It's really not that far away.
You'd think some of those positive stats
would rub off on them
or the negative stats would rub off on Overland Park.
No, it's like two different worlds on this one.
Listen to these stats.
The overall crime rate here
is 498% above the national average.
And the violent crime rate
is 1,330% above the national average.
That's not great.
Poverty in this part of Kansas city, Missouri
is 25% higher than the national average.
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All right, on to number one.
And number one, Detroit, Michigan.
The most dangerous neighborhood in Detroit is Von Steuben.
This little gem of real estate
is Northeast of downtown Detroit.
And about a third of the homes here are now vacant lots.
As people fled out of Detroit over the decades,
they just abandoned their homes.
Property values had dropped so much,
it wasn't even worth trying to sell the place.
It's not like people were buying up
in these neighborhoods anyway.
So it was like,
"What's the point?
"Just leave it."
And they did.
Nothing good goes on in abandoned house.
So the city decided to bulldoze tons of them.
This solved a lot of problems Detroit was having,
and that was people setting fire to abandoned homes.
Yeah, that was a big thing for quite a while.
But the crime has not gone away in Von Steuben.
The crime rate is 463% above the national average
and their violent crime rate
is 1,349% above the national average.
This place is not a good place to live.
Now, I say that from a statistic point of view,
if you look at it,
it doesn't look that bad.
If you drive down the street,
it looks like decent house,
decent house abandoned lot,
boarded up windows.
And then you have a couple more decent houses,
abandoned, abandoned, boarded up windows,
that type thing.
So it's not all just totally bad in a war zone.
They just got a lot of crime going on here.
Their unemployment is a staggering 236% higher
than the national average.
That is brutal.
I honestly think that's the highest number
I've seen on unemployment rate.
Oddly enough, their poverty level is only 5% higher
than the national average.
It's not many people living here.
I did read a police blog thing about this neighborhood
while I was researching this.
And there was a homeless man, I guess,
that someone had zip tied to a telephone pole or something
three nights in a row.
Same homeless man, same thing.
They kept zip tying him to it
and then someone would call the police.
The police would come
and cut him off the telephone pole.
Fun times in Von Steuben.
All right, that's today's video.
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