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Every year, at roughly the same time as the National Day of Prayer, an internet facility known as Neighborhood Scout publishes a list of bad hoods. This year is no different. NeighborhoodScout’s ® Top 25 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in America is now available for your enjoyment.
1 East St. Louis, IL (City Center)
2 Jackson, TN (James Buchanan Dr / 1st St)
3 Atlanta, GA (Mcdaniel St SW / Mary St SW)
4 Saginaw, MI (E Holland Ave / E Genesee Ave)
5 Rockford, IL (7th St / E Jefferson St)
6 Memphis, TN (Chelsea Ave / N Claybrook St)
7 Rochester, NY (Orange St / W Broad St)
8 Detroit, MI (Wyoming St / Orangelawn St)
9 Detroit, MI (Broadstreet Ave / Cortland St)
10 Camden, NJ (Whitman Park)
11 Detroit, Mi (W Jeffries Fwy / Seebaldt St)
12 New Orleans, LA (Conti St / Marais St)
13 East St. Louis, IL (Caseyville Ave / N Park Dr)
14 Oklahoma City, OK (NE 36th St / N Martin Luther King Ave)
15 Baltimore, MD (E Oliver St / N Broadway)
16 Cincinnati, OH (Central Pky / Central Ave)
17 Omaha, NE (N 24th St / Ames Ave)
18 Rockford, IL (N Rockton Ave / W State St)
19 West Memphis, AR (E Jackson Ave / Autumn Ave)
20 Chicago, IL (S Indiana Ave / E 60th St)
21 Saginaw, MI (Lapeer Ave / E Genesee Ave)
22 Washington, DC (Atlantic St SE / 4th St SE)
23 St. Louis, MO (Clara Ave / Saint Louis Ave)
24 Chicago, IL (S Pulaski Rd / W Lexington St)
25 Baton Rouge, LA (N Lobdell Ave / Harry Dr)
The protection money paid by New York, Florida, and Texas kept them off the list. If you want to see who is what, the list is there. The site has more information, especially if you subscribe to Neighborhood Scout. Put fresh batteries in your BS detector.
The only Atlanta winner is McDaniel Street & Mary Street. It comes in at number three. This is the site of a popular video. In the film, a young man is beaten by three other young men. The person filming the scene shouts “no faggots in jack city.”
Pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.