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We are talking about COUNTIES! Not cities or neighborhoods.
Philadelphia is incorporated with its county, so sorry, but that makes the county quite dangerous. Possibly the most dangerous in the country.
Take Atlanta for example though, Fulton county has all those nice suburbs north of the actual city limits of Atlanta to dilute the homicide rate for the county. Philadelphia didn't do that.
Philadelphia county should merge with its surrounding county to give itself a lower crime rate.
Philadelphia is surrounded by more than 1 County and if it merged with another it wouldn't be for the lower total county crime rate (who even measures crime by county?) but for the huge increase in tax revenue.
....is dangerous in the context of NYC, but not that dangerous compared to some counties/cities nationwide. The Bronx has a murder rate of around 8.4, probably less now.
Depends on what color you are. There are still some sundown towns in the USA. Like in Northwestern Missouri. And some amazingly corrupt cops. Would you consider a notorious speed trap to make a county "dangerous"?
Granted, but the OP asked about most dangerous counties -- not portions of counties. I take this to mean that any comparison would have to be on a county-by-county basis. Unfortunately for Camden County, its namesake city really drags the rest of the place down, when considering overall crime stats. Whether or not it drags it down enough to qualify the whole place as being among the most dangerous counties overall, I don't know.
Not that the OP phrased it this way, but I would make a distinction between coterminous counties/cities (e.g. Philadelphia), counties that are dominated by a major city (e.g. Cook County, IL), and counties that are not dominated by a single city (e.g. Prince George's County, MD). I sort of imagine that the latter type is what the OP had in mind, though I don't know that for sure.
Camden itself isn't enough to make the whole of Camden county amongst the most dangerous. Looking at overall crime stats really do dilute the numbers because so much of Camden county is very decent.
Seeing as the city of Chicago runs pretty much middle of the pack in terms of crime rates and isn't even in the top 10 of homicicde rates, and that Cook county adds another ~2.5 million people in generally very safe and nice suburbs, it's probably not Cook county as one of the most dangerous.
No one in this thread would survive Miami-Dade County.
....perplexed here polo
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