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Typically South Jamaica is normally worse and had seemed to be getting gradually worse as time went on last 3 or 4 years. That being said, Jamaica has seemed to take a big turn for the worst this year as well unfortunately... The homicides are somewhere around 11 or 12 after that triple homicide and gang presence is on the rise in that area... New young clicks aside from YBs and YGs are making a name for themselves and causing all sorts of problems...
Typically South Jamaica is normally worse and had seemed to be getting gradually worse as time went on last 3 or 4 years. That being said, Jamaica has seemed to take a big turn for the worst this year as well unfortunately... The homicides are somewhere around 11 or 12 after that triple homicide and gang presence is on the rise in that area... New young clicks aside from YBs and YGs are making a name for themselves and causing all sorts of problems...
South Jamaica has the Third Largest African-American Population in the City after Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. It was/is the center of black culture in Queens, as Harlem is to Manhattan and Bedford-Stuyvesant is to Brooklyn. The further you go out into St. Albans, Rosedale and Laurelton and parts of Cambria Heights, is where the Jamaican, Trini, Guyanese and Haitian populations start to increase.
I look at both of these two areas like East NY and Brownsville... I look at South Jamaica as Brownsville and East NY as Jamaica... Reason why I say that is because the areas are comparable in the sense that greater jamaica has a much bigger population that South Jamaica as East NY over Brownsville yet the crime rates are comparable... Similarly, most of the crime in Jamaica generally occurs within a small area and it can be argued that those small sections are worse than South Jamaica, similar situation goes for East NY and Brownsville...
If we're talking about per capita rates i'd say no question South Jamaica... But if we're talking about worse sections of both neighborhoods, i'd say Jamaica is on par if not worse than South Jamaica in certain parts...
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