Most Dangerous Cities in U.S.

[CyDude16]

Sorry about that, but you were trying to take my walking taco. :wideeyed::wink:

I know what you mean. I had a jittery guy in Denver shaking a loaded revolver in my direction. Thankfully, he wasn't really thinking of me, and he was open to pointing it in a direction without people when I pointed it out to him.:wideeyed:

Yeah at least the guys were too hoped up on crack to realize how to start my buddies car, and we got away to our hotel safe, and the police caught them all. But I'll never forget the split second he aimed the gun at me cause he thought i had the car keys.

 

[gocy444]

Yeah at least the guys were too hoped up on crack to realize how to start my buddies car, and we got away to our hotel safe, and the police caught them all. But I'll never forget the split second he aimed the gun at me cause he thought i had the car keys.

where we you

 

[CycloneErik]

Yeah at least the guys were too hoped up on crack to realize how to start my buddies car, and we got away to our hotel safe, and the police caught them all. But I'll never forget the split second he aimed the gun at me cause he thought i had the car keys.

It would be tough to forget.

 

[sdillon500]

I forget what city in California this was, but one of my soldiers was almost shot at a 7-11 one night while we were racing him to the San Francisco Airport to get home due to a Red Cross emergency message.

We stopped for a quick restroom break. I was the last guy buying stuff. Everyone else is outside, and I hear gunfire. So I head out, because I definitely want to be with my guys if something is happening.

Someone had tried a drive-by and missed their target, who was standing there yelling at the departed car to give it another try.

Strangely enough, that 7-11 didn't have a restroom, it turned out. Our emergency guy was thinking of sneaking behind their dumpster, but the gunfire encouraged him to limit his options.

Going to the SF Airport? You were probably in Hunter's Point or Bayview. Fairly rough parts of a city that overall is extremely safe.

But just across the bay we're well represented with Richmond & Oakland! Two friends mugged, a drive-by in front of another friend's house, and a neighbor who got his thumb shot off while trying to stop a robbery. It's a non-stop thrill ride in the East Bay.

 

[Doc]

You can act with all the bravado and confidence you want on the west side of Chicago....if you are melanin-deficient you will get a brick thrown at your head.

That is a really ignorant thing to say. You think the main reason that people are targeted is because they are white?

 

[arganbright2]

I used to do transporting for a juvenile delinquent facility and spent alot of time in Baltimore, Detroit, and Flint. Lets just say I never ever ventured out after dark. Baltimore will be number one shortly---by far the most unsafe I have ever felt in my entire life and I was staying in a 4 star hotel by the airport!!!

 

[CyDude16]

where we you

Kansas City, Kansas just over the border. Staying at a nice hilton garden inn. Friend decided to stop at the BP about 200 yards away from my hotel to get gas and tylenol because we were at a Jack Johnson concert in bonner springs. And we were a bit buzzed. Bad Idea to stop at 1230 at night.

 

[CloneIce]

I've been in some bad areas of Kansas City pretty late and it is a whole different world. Lots of places you dont want to go.

 

[gocy444]

Kansas City, Kansas just over the border. Staying at a nice hilton garden inn. Friend decided to stop at the BP about 200 yards away from my hotel to get gas and tylenol because we were at a Jack Johnson concert in bonner springs. And we were a bit buzzed. Bad Idea to stop at 1230 at night.

thats insane i would have **** myself

 

[cyclone9]

I've never had any dangerous experiences in the U.S., but when I was in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania my friend and I were going to take a bus back to our other friend's village. We were the only white people in a sea of hundreds of staring Tanzanians, after dark. We had specifically been told to avoid being out in the city after dark because of the crime. We also had basically all of our money and valuables in our bags. Every bus to our friend's village was full, and we waited about an hour before we got out of there. Thankfully nothing bad happened, but it was a pretty unnerving experience.

 

[mplscyclone]

Back in the early 90's I had a cousin living up in Minneapolis. I went up and spent the weekend with him and told him to take me to Hennepin Ave where all the hookers were. I was a farm kid who never seen anything like that so he took me. This was before they beautified the area and I was scared you-know-whatless but put on the tough guy persona. I seen hookers, bullet holes in the building walls and started getting comfortable when a guy comes out and wants to shake my cousins hand. He pulled back and I am sure he was wanting to pull him into the entrance way of the building to mug him so i pulled him back. The guy then breaks his beer bottle and starts coming after us. We take off down the road and went inside this magazine shop and we both picked up a magazine to appear like we weren't the guys he was looking for. I was so freaked out, I had no idea we were in a porn shop and not only was I looking at some hard core gay magazine, I was looking at it upside down. Needless to say, we got the heck out of dodge as soon as we could.

So, ya, Minneapolis has it's bad spots for sure.

No place is 100% safe, but at the same time does that make it seem like it's one of the 10 most violent:no:

I'm sure you could find incidents of something like this happening everywhere. No one is saying Minneapolis doesn't have bad spots, but is it seriously one of the most dangerous cities in the entire US?? :skeptical:

 

[CyDude16]

thats insane i would have **** myself

I was just, its kind of unexplainable, it feels unreal, like we had to jump 8 foot ledge to run across the parking lot to the hotel, and we could have easily broken our leg or ankle or something, but we were so caught up in trying to get out of there that we didn't notice. And then we go to the hotel, we were able to call the police, it was surreal. And i was so confused to what was going on.

 

[gocy444]

No place is 100% safe, but at the same time does that make it seem like it's one of the 10 most violent:no:

I'm sure you could find incidents of something like this happening everywhere. No one is saying Minneapolis doesn't have bad spots, but is it seriously one of the most dangerous cities in the entire US?? :skeptical:

thats incorrect i give you Monowi Nebraska population:1 if you are that one person i'd say you stand a pretty good chance agains't yourself:smile:

 

[bufante]

How is West Palm Beach so high? Donald Trump has house there...must be all the stats from Bernie Madoff :wink:.

Seriously, the average age must be 70....really nice (expensive) place!

 

[Cyclonesrule91]

No place is 100% safe, but at the same time does that make it seem like it's one of the 10 most violent:no:

I'm sure you could find incidents of something like this happening everywhere. No one is saying Minneapolis doesn't have bad spots, but is it seriously one of the most dangerous cities in the entire US?? :skeptical:

I love the Cities and have never felt seriously threatened other then when I wanted him to take me to that area. There are places like that everywhere. I wasn't trying to make the Cities as dangerous, just sharing an experience I had when looking for the bad area

 

[Stelrs1995]

If you ever want to "see" the bad areas of most cities, take a ride on Amtrak. Me and 2 friends took a trip of over 7000 miles about 20 years ago. Every major city we went through we seen some interesting things. In L.A. we had a 2 hour layover and seen a cafe sign about a block away. We started out the door and 2 policemen calmly told us not to walk there, to take a cab if we must go. Going through Oakland was like something out of twilight zone and New Orleans wasn't much better. Being my first real trip out of the Midwest it was an eye opening experience to say the least for me.

 

[Longhorns3131]

Well people overseas get guns pointed at them everyday.

 

[mplscyclone]

If you ever want to "see" the bad areas of most cities, take a ride on Amtrak.

I'll take that to another level: ride a Grayhound...

 

[Longhorns3131]

That is a really ignorant thing to say. You think the main reason that people are targeted is because they are white?

Well back in 1960's black people were targeted by the whites. So yes I do believe that white people are probably more targeted then other races more in the streets than any other minority.

 

[CyDude16]

Well people overseas get guns pointed at them everyday.

In most industrial countries that is false, but in third world countries, its plausible. Talk to anyone who has had a gun pointed at them, and they will say the same thing i have. Until you've experienced it, then you really dont know what its like.