That's why you measure crime by per capita numbers.

😂 this comments gets a dark humor award!

I have a friend who lives just north of Detroit… he say invest in property in downtown… it’s empty but hopefully coming back.

I’m surprised tech industry hasn’t moved there. It’s a lot better than Fargo.

@@delroywilson9588 If criminals move out, crime per capita would still decrease though. That doesn't change anything.

Disgusting but not scary

Portland has never really been that nice….

@@timcombs2730 In ‘93 I had an idealized view of Portland. I missed my intend exit driving in. Scary, and I once rode a public bus through Detroit’s “Donut.” I don’t scare easy. Idealized view busted, I drove on to Astoria.

Portland has a very low homicide rate and not that bad of an overall crime rate. There are far "scarier" cities.

If you want to shame someone Briggs, talk about Federal government employees, not people who do real work to add value to society. Got it? Get it? Good!

​@@chuckinhouston9952Whether you like it or not, too many of those types of jobs DO give a bad reputation. Look at Detroit, as an example. You couldn't pay me enough to live there, or any other place like it.

name a red city then

@@SA-hz1rs Hmmm -- give me an hour ...

Or the jobs moving out

True. Seattle is a classic case. Once you leave Seattle, the bums disappear.

@@99999myk Marysville, 30 or so miles to the north of Seattle, has an interesting way of dealing with homeless people. They have a choice -- sleep in a shelter OR get outta town. Marysville has no problem with the homeless as a result.

Used to live in Baton Rouge, yes it has a bad reputation because of its crime rates, but there do exist genuine reasons to live there and there are nice parts of town. If you're going to LSU or Southern, or have some involvement with the state government and/or its varies agencies, you'll want to be near or in Baton Rouge for that. If you're going to live in Baton Rouge, the southern half of town is actually quite nice, Perkins Rowe comes to mind, but it's far from the only nice place in town.

Cleveland has improved allot in recent years. I agree with the rest though.

It’s “Bodymore”

@@howardcitizen2471 If you need a direction in life . Go to Baltiimore , Where you can be some body !!!!!!

Born in Hamtramck in the 70s.. Lived there until 92.. I have been going back to Detroit to see family for the last 20 years, and Love how the City is turning around

My friend says Kalamazoo is "little Detroit ". Sounds like a sad place he said drugs are everywhere there . I still love Michigan ❤️ though, I want to retire there 😊.

@@Kim-J312 ahh yes, The Zoo.. Those little Towns Adrian and Jackson have now gotten these bad Reputations

​@@Kim-J312damn don't retire there because michigan blows. Pure sad state.

@DJF177 do you live there? I've only been to New Buffalo area and east to Three Rivers to snowmobile. I like that I could basically sled through town to regular gas stations to fill up and no one gives a crap about it. Locals were kind enough to get us back to the tail head . 👍Same vibe up in north woods wisco 👍. A couple of bars off trail had parking areas for snowmobiles 👍 . All that isn't happening in, for example, in Colorado or Idaho ect.

Memphis and not Nashville like most Chicagoans do when they move to Tennessee? So he wants to trade the boiling pot for the frying pan. Maybe his problems in Chicago are personal and not much to do with to the city itself.

Facts, I from there moved 13yrs ago, tell everyone that, new building, restaurant don't make a city it's the people, and Detroit got terrible people

Correct. Pretty much every city with major problems is run by leftist Democrats and by leftist, I mean _Marxist._ Not 'liberal' - Ben Franklin was a liberal. Karl Marx was most definitely not.

I went to lisbon recently and I can’t help but think that if SanFran kept it’s head straight it could be as great as the Portuguese capital as they are pretty similar looking cities

@@Entername-md1ev All drugs legal in Portugal, just like in Portland. So why is Portugal simply a great country and Portland a mess? After they legalized everything in 2002 in Portugal, all crime went down, and even addiction went down. Let people be free, a la "my body my choice," and people for the most part do a few drugs for a while, then the thrill wears off, then they slow down or quit doing drugs altogether.

as a Portlander, this is true and I can confirm

Not sure I understand. What are the factors you are thinking are the most important?

Honest my butt!

You'd be surprised just how bad Springfield Oregon is.

Agreed

Years of learning dry humor.

@@WorldAccordingToBriggs you have learned it very well!

Your style works

The Rockford, IL rant had me cracking up!

Milwaukee's a smaller city? Compared to Chicago.

Pine Bluff is less than 50,000 People - 80% of whom are the demographic which cannot be called out🤦🏼‍♂️!! Bit of a stretch calling it a “City” compared to all these other places!! Yes - it is a true Shithole💩🚽👎!! Just stay away, as the rest of us here in Arkansas do!!

Baton Rouge and Memphis.

Comment deleted😮 “Woke Supremacy” strikes again😂👏

Milwaukee is larger than Atlanta. Not the Metro but the city limits are. As for Atlanta it should be on this list too.

That's second to the insane amount of crime.

@@CC-cp5uf no it's not. there are plenty of low crime parts of Chicago. no part is warm in the winter.

😂

That's the first city that came to my mind. Memphis has replaced Detroit.

My cousins son has been a police officer forever in Memphis and getting ready to retire. He said, ya just can't believe how downhill it's went and don't even go near Graceland after dark.

This and I was surprised that New Orleans didn't make the list either

St. Louis is massive overshadowed by East St. Louis in Illinois if we are being honest.

​@@firefighter1c57 too small a population to matter on this list

President Obozo said everyone would learn to "write code". You know many blue collar Americans that could write code.

Oversimplified to say the least

​@@jsimsgt96It's the truth. Oversimplified is blaming it all on one race.

Then they should get off their ass and go where the jobs are. I have crossed numerous state lines to work and lived in foreign countries for work 15 years. I'm not interested in hearing the whining and bitching.

Maybe. The Baltimore region is thriving and has plenty of jobs.

Thanks you

Ok. I lived in both Little Rock and Shreveport. I was on HIGH alert at all times even when grocery shopping in broad daylight. Now on west coast. My anxiety titer has dropped significantly.

Id probably off myself if i was stuck in Shreveport ngl

I went to Avionics A School then. I finished around May.

@@Chris_at_Home I went to Avionics A and then AFTA. Spent a year there.

I'm surprised NYC isn't mentioned.

Maybe because New York actually meets its low expectations?

It is. It's tied for 10th with Portland, and the first city discussed in the video. Did you even watch the video?

San Francisco is actually still pretty nice. That's the best kept secret. I work in San Francisco and have no problems there whatsoever.

Oakland is a tale of two cities. Crime is bad there and has been forever. But, Oakland has some beautiful areas and it is no longer affordable. You can live your best life in some parts of Oakland like the hills, Rockridge and Piedmont Avenue so long as you don’t become a crime victim. Oakland is gentrified and has great restaurants, parks, stores, cafes and natural beauty.

Most Americans live in cities.

​@@kevinalford272most Americans live in suburbs.

I would love that too! As European tourist I visited this area last year and it was a lovely experience!

What about dale city virginia or that's real bad

Perhaps. But remember.. It's their fault for trying out the addictive stuff.

It’s the stress in general. They get assaulted. They don’t get sleep. Etc

Not all of them. I happen to know a few people who were so badly abused by family members, as in more than 1 or even just 3. Then, when they married, it is the same thing all over again. Even the police are abusive to people who need help. Sometimes they even kill themselves because of all the abuse. Others work hard to get the help they need.

@@helenbranam2648 Thats why in my reply I said most. that very reason you mentioned.

I think the drugs are more a symptom than the cause. It looks to me like they’re suffering from traumas that can go back to their childhood. And out of desperation they turn to drugs for some relief from the suffering and then they inevitably get addicted to drugs. I think it’s mostly to do with trauma and not having enough support from family and friends

Grew up in 60s and 70s in Hartford area (Glastonbury) and Springfield (East Longmeadow) used to be a great place but haven't been back since 1975 went in Military then moved to Denver

I was thinking bad reputation and then I remembered Joan Jett had a song called "Bad Reputation". So I thought Joan Jett wears leather, lets find a girl in leather.

It is sad thay so many corporations are being allowed to buy up all the single family houses and apartments are being built everywhere. Only 1 person running for president has even mentioned thus problem and it should be banned. The single buyer can't compete and all the boomers that are selling make so much more. The young people have no chance of owning homes if we keep going this route. I believe that is the goal but it is sad.

@@Denise_2262 "Attorney General Mayes Sues RealPage and Residential Landlords for Illegal Price-Fixing Conspiracy" Someone is working on it to what effect remains to be seen.

Pretty much the biggest factor to the homelessness and mass amounts that moved out of California and NYC, after 2020

If you screw it up in hell they'll send you straight to Camden.

Hum. The stats say different. Homicide was down 20% last year -- the biggest fall on record -- and is down almost 40% so far this year.

I was in ft Meade in the early 90s and it was rough then.. the block, LOL!! last I heard the inner harbor is now akin to a dead mall, haven't seen it in 30 years.

@@mickjaegerguano4809 It's a city of neighborhoods. At its best, the Inner Harbor was just a twee tourist trap.

You too!

There is no money/profit in fixing houselessness. if there were some way the corporate swine and equity firms could make money houselessness would end tomorrow.

Wasn't she rediculous?

@@WorldAccordingToBriggs Truthfully, she was right. In that part of Lake Merritt there are places where you are allowed to BBQ and places where you aren't allowed. The offending chef was not in the designated BBQ area. However, she made such a stink about it that she got the wrong kind of attention. Kind of a variant of Streisand effect. The next day about 25 people went to that area and setup their grills. Kind of funny really. BTW--I grew up in Oakland and I love the town, but hate what it's become. It's a result of ranked choice voting. But, I digress...

Housing is not affordable in Chicago. It's not SF level expensive, but still far from a bargain.

@entropyfan5714 depends on the neighborhood. There are plenty of places in Andersonville, Rogers Park and thereabouts that are deals. And those neighborhoods are safer than average. Yeah, Streeterville, Gold Coast, and Printers Row are steep.

Graduated from East ongmeadow in 1973 and then went into air force in 1975 and haven't been back...used to be great in 1970s

@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN That area is still pretty good. I'd totally live there.

The Dakotas

You sound like someone that works for the Chamber of Commerce of ANC.

I love Alaska - such a beautiful state. But even my family in Palmer stays away from Anchorage.

Ketchikan is closer to Seattle than Anchorage by plane. It is a big state.

How did Alaska get dangerous

@@olafharoldsonnii4713 4 years ago the powers to be deemed it bad to lock criminals up for nonviolent crimes. The criminals that committed these types of crimes have just moved on to bigger crimes.

@cerealGrrrl The PNW is gloomy and depressing along with the weather and shity ass people.both Portland and Seattle are trash.

@CerearlGrrrl.Seattle should have been on been on this list.

@@ralphjohnson3202 Yep, I avoid live in a suburb of Seattle about 25 miles north of it, and I avoid the city most of the time.

Stop apologizing.

Well to begin with, I believe it was 70's or 80's that the term WHITE FLIGHT" came about. Whites moved to the country and look at the cesspool cities.

have you seen dying rural america? who controls that>

It was great till the mid 1970 s

I'd be curious to see the actual stats on that.

I lived in the NYC area from birth to 1979. The best I've seen the city was when my wife and I visited in 2004. Go figure, New York didn't make the list.

The crime rates in NYC were higher every single year when Giuliani was mayor than it is today even after the huge increase in crime starting in 2020.

@@delroywilson9588 in the mid 1990s projects like cleaning up Times Square were started and it became a shopping, dining, etc area like it is now. Used to be a place of strip clubs, prostitution, etc. The Civic Cleanup program went on in the 1990s under Commissioner Bratton. The NYPD took crime more seriously. The effects were realized after 9/11 and during Bloomberg’s administration. You can look up stats. In terms of political leanings, you can look up maps. Nassau County has more registered Republicans but Democrats do win the county. Suffolk County (more east than Nassau or further from the NYC if you aren’t familiar) and Nassau County both have Republican County Executives right now and prior to that they were both Democrats. You can look all this up

@@TheItalianTrash I explained when someone questioned, he initiated the cleaning up of Times Square and those programs but they didn’t take effect until after 9/11 under Bloomberg. Giuliani initiated some of the changes that helped lead to the low crime and more prosperity in the Bloomberg era of NYC Under Mayor Bloomberg’s leadership, New York City cut crime by more than 32% between 2001 and 2013. Due to that, new residents and businesses flocked to areas that were once considered highly dangerous and it was generally prosperous and safe to live in. Also the crack epidemic ended in the late 90s which was also a major crime driver. Between 2021 and 2022, violent crime increased by 39.2% and has slightly improved but not compared to the 00s. Also I forgot which, but either 2017 or 2018 actually had a very low crime rate even better than the Bloomberg years Things are definitely not as bad as the 70s and 80s, but we should make sure that we don’t go back to that insanity since we were almost there in 2020-2022 The 1990s though were definitely great years for nightlife 😃 sadly the old super clubs ended in the end of the 1990s. Great times, sadly no more China Club, Limelight, Tunnel, Twilo, Soundfactory, CBGB..all done

Least east Cleveland

@@Imintune...Separate city. Proposed merger in 2016 failed because EC city officials “demanded” that they get to keep their jobs and run their sub-city while Cleveland paid their bills.

Springfield and Holyoke are definitely up there!

@@davidlandry3487 I totally believe it considering I'm using purely anecdotal evidence and not any actual criminal statistics. I'm just basing this on what I heard from word of mouth.

​@TheItalianTrash Springfield was great till the mid 1970 s then it went downhill

@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN Many Midwestern and Northeastern cities were great until the 1970s when mass deindustrialization occurred. I still plan to go to Springfield this year or next to visit the Basketball Hall of Fame and maybe the MGM casino for some poker.

I thought that he already did. Perhaps search his videos before making an ignorant comment.

Like your message. We do cause most of our own problems. My pastor talked one Sunday about people we know that everything they touch turns to gold, everything just works out for them. He said, the reason is God puts no stumbling blocks before them as it wouldn't do any good. They don't need him.

@mikehappy Need to add Seattle to the list .

Springfield was great to grow up in 1970s