Safest/Unsafest place in America

[Savage Discipil]

I your opinion what is the Safest or Unsafest location in America?

 

[Babbler]

New Orleans would the unsafest, at the moment at least.

Vermont seems to be safe, as almost no one lives there.

 

[Cuivienen]

The city with the highest crime and murder rates in the country is Camden, New Jersey. It is widely acknowledged as "America's Most Dangerous City."


Well, excepting current circumstances in New Orleans.

EDIT: I'd agree on Vermont as safest. It's unpopulated, and, unlike other low-density states, there are relatively few crazies and natural dangers.

 

[Comraddict]

midwestern town with 10 people

 

[amadeus]

Detroit; anywhere else.

 

[farting bob]

safest would be middle of nowhere town, unsafest i guess would go to camden, since you say it has the highest murder rate in the country.

 

[Godwynn]

I would have said my hometown as one of the safest, but it has gone nuts in the past year.

A town full of 11,000 rednecks. Countless vandalisms, 1 or 2 murders, tire slashing for an entire street the length of the city. Since I work at Kroger I see all the methheads coming in an trying to jack sudafed.

 

[IglooDame]

Vermont couldn't be the safest, any adult resident there can carry guns in their pocket with no state permit or training! It is like the days of the Wild West!!

 

[Godwynn]

Vermont couldn't be the safest, any adult resident there can carry guns in their pocket with no state permit or training! It is like the days of the Wild West!!

That should make it pretty safe.

 

[Serutan]

Unsafe : East Saint Louis, Ill.

 

[Grisu]

Vermont couldn't be the safest, any adult resident there can carry guns in their pocket with no state permit or training! It is like the days of the Wild West!!

I'm shocked, this coming from you?

 

[IglooDame]

I'm shocked, this coming from you?

Maybe I should have used or instead of

I just thought it was funny that regarding the two places mentioned, Vermont is arguably the easiest state in the US to legally get and carry a gun, and New Jersey (Camden included) is among the most strict.

That, combined with anti-gun cries in state considering legal concealed carry that allowing it will turn that state into Wild-West-shootout streets-running-red-with-blood carnages yet they never seem to look at the standard Vermont sets in that regard.

 

[Savage Discipil]

Maybe I should have used or instead of

I just thought it was funny that regarding the two places mentioned, Vermont is arguably the easiest state in the US to legally get and carry a gun, and New Jersey (Camden included) is among the most strict.

That, combined with anti-gun cries in state considering legal concealed carry that allowing it will turn that state into Wild-West-shootout streets-running-red-with-blood carnages yet they never seem to look at the standard Vermont sets in that regard.

Just because guns laws are strict in New Jersey that doesn't mean there's no guns there ie the mafia

 

[searcheagle]

Vermont couldn't be the safest, any adult resident there can carry guns in their pocket with no state permit or training! It is like the days of the Wild West!!

Funny, I don't remember hearing about the massive crime rates in Vermont. I hear more stories about places like NYC, Detriot, and Camden/Philly.

 

[Grisu]

Maybe I should have used or instead of .

dammit, I forgot to turn on my sarcasm-detector again....

 

[downtown]

Parts of Washington DC aer just as unsafe as Detroit, Camden, East St.Louis, etc. Lucky for me, i dont happen to live in those parts, or need to go there after dark by myself.

My old town in Ohio was *very* safe...maybe 5,000 people total...little liberal arts college town. No murder in 40 years. just the odd DUI and whatnot, that was it. I left my car unlocked and my keys in ignition there. Wont be doing that now

 

[IglooDame]

Just because guns laws are strict in New Jersey that doesn't mean there's no guns there ie the mafia

Yep. There's a lesson there somewhere, I think.

 

[stormbind]

Safest might be York (Pennsylvania) - first temporary political capital of the USA.

Least safe might be Chicago (Illinois) - murder capital of the USA.

P.S. I did not consider city density or the actual probability of threat to life.

 

[Whomp]

Safest might be York (Pennsylvania) - first temporary political capital of the USA.

Least safe might be Chicago (Illinois) - murder capital of the USA.

P.S. I did not consider city density or the actual probability of threat to life.

I think you're thinking of Detroit as the murder capital of the U.S. The housing projects in Chicago numbered 60,000 at their height, now number 8,000. Gary's close but it ain't Chicago. These were rated the most dangerous cities in the U.S.
1 Camden, NJ
2 Detroit, MI
3 Atlanta, GA
4 St. Louis, MO
5 Gary, IN
6 Washington, DC
7 Hartford, CT
8 New Orleans, LA
9 Richmond, VA
10 Birmingham, AL
11 Baltimore, MD
12 Richmond, CA
13 Memphis, TN
14 Jackson, MS
15 Tampa, FL
16 San Bernardino, CA
17 Compton, CA
18 Springfield, MA
19 Miami, FL
20 Cleveland, OH
21 Dayton, OH
22 North Charleston, SC
23 Little Rock, AR
24 Oakland, CA
25 Cincinnati, OH

And these were considered the safest. Of course these are just cities.
Amherst, N.Y.
Newton, Mass.
Mission Viejo, Calif.
Cary, N.C.
and Brick Township, N.J.

 

[stormbind]

599 homicides in Chicago (statistics for the year of 2003) made it the murder capital of the USA. Source: comparison at CNN, published 1st January 2004.

I could not find a similar comparison published in 2005, but on 18th August 2005, CBS published "The city's [New Orleans] homicide rate has climbed again to nearly 10 times the national average" so maybe New Orleans is the least safe in every respect.

New Orleans, before the hurricane came