What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the world according to Briggs. I
thought we would do a most dangerous neighborhoods video today I was just in
Chicago and whenever Chicago is mentioned people act like the place is
sort of like a scene from that movie escape from New York like it just run
down chaotic gangs everywhere cars on fire
dogs and cats sleeping together you know just crazy place thing is it's not 90%
of Chicago is a really nice place and relatively safe just like all major
cities they do have some parts that are crazy dangerous and that's where they
get their reputation la is sort of the same way most of it is really nice and
then you have neighborhoods that are on this list before we get into it I want
to dispel a myth Compton is not nearly as bad as it used to be boys in the hood
was filmed in 1991 let it go it's also a suburb of LA not actually in LA don't
get me wrong it isn't the nicest area it's just not as bad as it once was
today's video is about the most dangerous neighborhoods in Los Angeles
and they have a lot of them this is only ten of them we could probably do 25 that
are pretty dangerous now one thing I do want to mention here I will be using the
proper name of these neighborhoods so you could look it up if you want to see
where it is on Google Maps or whatever the locals might not even know that
that's the actual name example East LA has a handful of small neighborhoods and
most people just call it East LA so yeah in case you don't know what I'm talking
about looking up on the map you'll see that it's in an area you probably
already know this video isn't really geared for locals it's geared for people
that don't know about the place all right so before we get into it we're
calculating this based on the number of violent crimes per every hundred
thousand residents compared to the national violent crime average all right
let's see what places to avoid in Los Angeles
number ten Watts when I was young Watts was considered the worst place in Los
Angeles they had the Watts Riots in the 60s and they always had a serious
poverty problem Watts borders the cities of Lynwood and South Gate in the late
1800s it was a ranching community and began to grow with the arrival of the
railroads and the construction of the Watts station that station is still
there this is home to some of the most
notorious housing projects in Los Angeles Jordan downs Nickerson gardens
and imperial courts they have another one called Hacienda Village but it's not
as famous as the other ones during the LA riots back in the early 90s I had to
patrol all three of these at one point it destroyed a stereotype I had been
raised with not everyone in the projects is a frickin criminal most of the people
are good people just trying to get by it's just that 10% it's bringing
everything down and that 10% is busy here the violent crime rate in watts is
321 percent higher than the national average neck get some at number ten
number nine Crenshaw Crenshaw is a largely residential neighborhood with
single-story houses bungalows low-rise condominiums and
apartments there are also some commercial buildings with an industrial
corridor along Jefferson Boulevard now in post-world War 2 era a
japanese-american community was established in Crenshaw
the Japanese community started a decline in the late 60s and by the mid 70s most
of them were gone an army buddy of mine lived here we would drive down from Fort
Ord California which is central you know coastal Monterey California basically we
come down on the weekends and I would drop him off this was in the early 1990s
and he would say just drop me off at the freeway exit I'll walk a couple blocks
home I don't need you driving around this neighborhood which was good enough
for me he'd get out and walk to his parents couple blocks away he called the
neighborhood the SHA these days the violent crime rate here is 322 percent
above the national average that's harsh number 8 Park Mesa Heights
when I was young we called this area Hyde Park I believe most people from Los
Angeles still refer to it as Hyde Park who knows this is right on the border of
Englewood which is the new home of the NFL's Chargers and rams it's so fie
Stadium it is scheduled to open this month July 2020 and I'm sure it's behind
schedule it's 2020 after all I'm covet 19 and
everything else they're probably just stoked a giant earthquake didn't knock
the whole thing down while they were building it man this freakin year I'm
sure at this point if Godzilla showed up some of us would be like yeah this
doesn't surprise me anyway Parque Mesa Heights or Hyde Park has never been a
great place to live at least last 40 or 50 years and these days kind
of sucks the violent crime rate here is 329 percent higher than the national
average there are war zones with a less violent crime rate number seven
Vermont square most just call it Vermont Vermont has always been a place to avoid
over the years I've heard they were trying to clean it up but I haven't seen
or heard about any serious cleanup efforts
Vermont Square has one of the fastest-growing crime rates in LA and
I'm sure before long they'll be number one
yay this is one of those places that if you get a flat tire on the 110 freeway
which runs right along Vermont right on the rim if you have to don't stop here
about 50,000 people live in this neighborhood and almost 70% of them rent
having a high rental percentage is never good for a neighborhood the people
aren't is committed to making the neighborhood nice this is a perfect
example the violent crime rate in Vermont square is 347 percent higher
than the national average that's rough number six west adams west adams is a
small neighborhood in los angeles that most people avoid like an aggressive
proctologist with cold hands it's right next to the Crenshaw neighborhood that
we talked about earlier and this place can get dangerous if one of your choices
is an apartment in West Adams I would choose living in a car in Venice with
two other people West Adams is bordered by baldwin hills to the south and the 10
freeway to the north which in my opinion is one of the worst freeways in Los
Angeles I always used to get stuck on this one
and there's no escape in it because you got bad neighborhoods all around you so
you can't get off and try and take the side streets you may end up you know
losing your car or your life either one so I'd always stay on that freeway and
hail all that exhaust and just try and make it to my destination well I slowly
get cooked by the Los Angeles Sun it was horrible
I hated that freeway and I'd always avoid places like West Adams West Adams
violent crime rate is four hundred and seventy four percent higher than the
national average number five Leimert Park Leimert Park was developed in the
1920s as a residential community it was completely built to those Spanish
Colonial Revival homes which they still have some left but not as many they have
these all over Los they're still sprinkled around there
pretty neat anyway this community had tree-lined streets with the central
commercial area and a park somewhere around the 1960s it started a decline in
2014 construction started on the Linn mert Park station on the Los Angeles
metro light rail line it is scheduled to open in 2023 and there's a lot of hope
and there's a lot of fear with this train hope is that it'll bring
development to the area and bring better jobs and the fear is that it'll have
some serious gentrification and raise prices and housing a lot of other things
and chase longtime residents away I think they wouldn't mind chasing some of
the violent criminals away though right now the violent crime rate in
Leimert Park is 476 percent higher than the national average
that's a horrible number and we're only at the midway point of this list number
four Lincoln Heights Lincoln Heights is considered to be one of the oldest
neighborhoods outside of downtown Los Angeles this neighborhood dates back to
the late 1800s it sits on a bluff overlooking the Los Angeles River and
it's right near Dodger Stadium it was also home to the city's most notable
residents back in the day these days it's home to some of the city's most
violent residents like I said it's right by Dodger Stadium and I would advise
getting gas before the game you don't want to be driving around this
neighborhood late at night looking for a gas station they had a TV show about
this neighborhood back a couple years thing did three seasons called Lincoln
Heights they said it was a drama I watched one episode and I'm thinking
fiction anyway the violent crime rate in Lincoln Heights is 602 percent higher
than the national average don't go here number three South Park the only thing
separating South Park in Vermont is the 110 freeway and over 200 percentage
points when it comes to violent crime in 1903 this was a very popular development
it stayed that way until about the 1950s and by the 1990s this was a place you
dropped off your car when you didn't want it anymore there are 72 places in
the United States called South Park and this one is by far the worst it's even
worse than the cartoon South Park and in that South Park Kenny gets killed every
single episode the violent crime rate is six hundred and ten percent above the
national average in South Park six hundred and ten percent higher that
crazy it's almost like they're trying to suck you know it's like someone's
putting effort into being just a really bad and dangerous place the violent
crime rate in South Park is 610 percent higher than the national average and
we're still not at number one number two Little Tokyo Little Tokyo is right in
the downtown Civic Center area of Los Angeles this is the largest and most
populous of the only three official Japan towns in the United States even
though we call this one Little Tokyo all of them are in California one in San
Francisco and one in San Jose and this one is by far the most violent the area
was where all the Japanese moved to until the exclusion Act of 1924 which
halted any further migration from Asian countries japanese-americans
were a significant ethnic group in the vegetable trade this is where all the
vegetables were sold like the Farmers Market type thing back in the day that
was due to the number of Japanese American farmers across Southern
California in 1941 there was approximately 30,000 Japanese Americans
living in a little tokyo and then in 1942 we decided we were dumb and we
rounded up all the Japanese people we could find and stuck them in camps for
national security after the war they were all released and the neighborhood
had changed many of them didn't move back here they moved to different parts
of LA if you ever drive through here you'll
think there's no way that this is the second most violent neighborhood in Los
Angeles it is the numbers don't lie I thought it was weird too
I checked a couple different sources it definitely is and it's mostly assaults
people are getting beat up here all the time the overall violent crime rate in
Little Tokyo is 668 percent higher than the national average that's pretty harsh
and number one Chinatown in the early 1860s thousands of Chinese men who'd
been working to build the railroads landed in cities up and down the west
coast including Los Angeles they built their own communities and they became
known as China towns the original Chinatown in Los Angeles was developed
in the late 1800s but it was demolished to make room for Union Station which
that's where the train comes in and it was pretty much the city's ground
transportation center back in the day now I've been to Los Angeles's Chinatown
more times than I can remember and never really saw any crime but it was
understood that this place can get weird I'd always make sure I was out of there
by nightfall that was just my thing didn't want to
stick around to find out how weird it got from the early 1910s Chinatown began
to decline symptoms of a corrupt Los Angeles kind of you know made the place
look bad with all their gambling houses opium dens and gang warfare which was
kind of ruining the businesses in the area so a lot of people left and the
area slowly shrank and got smaller and now it's what it is today kind of a
rundown area with businesses that of Chinese writing on their signs anyway
the violent crime rate in Chinatown Los Angeles is six hundred and seventy nine
percent higher than the national average yeah that's why they're number one
apparently they're still having all kinds of problems they've always had
problems when I talk about all right so that is our list the most dangerous
neighborhoods in Los Angeles hope you guys enjoyed the video hope it was
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