Americans: What do you think is the most dangerous city in the United States???

[Isleño]

The title explains it. Give your opinions about which cities do you think are the most dangerous and why. Please elaborate.

Thanks for reading

[Isleño]

Let the comments begin!!!

[Scholarios]

Not American but lived and studied there for quite awhile.

Usually people always say "Detroit" but it's somewhat overstated. Cleveland, West Philadelphia, South Chicago, East St. Louis, Camden NJ, Compton CA, and a host of smaller cities like Gary, Indiana, Youngstown, Ohio, and Flynt Michigan are just as - if not more dangerous. I'll never forget a shootout I witnessed after a party in Youngstown. 26 people shot in like 15 minutes. That was something of a culture shock for me...

[RussiaPrussia]

Washington and New York

[SobieskisavedEurope]

East Saint Louis which is also the most African American U.S city.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_St._Louis,_Illinois

East St. Louis has the highest crime rate in the United States (according to the FBI's 100 most dangerous cities list). According to FBI's data of 2007, its murder rate hit 101.9 per population of 100,000, surpassing that of cities such as Gary, Indiana (48.3 per pop. 100,000); New Orleans, Louisiana (37.6); Baltimore, Maryland (43.3); and Detroit, Michigan (47.3); as well as that of its neighbor St. Louis (37.2). FBI data shows East St. Louis' rate of rape exceeded 250 per population of 100,000.
The following table shows East St. Louis's crime rate in six crimes that Morgan Quitno uses for its calculation for "America's most dangerous cities" ranking, in comparison to the national average:[16] Year: 2006 number of crimes per 100,000.
Crime East St. Louis National average
Murder 101.9 5.6
Rape 251.3 32.2
Robbery 1,347.0 195.4
Assault 5,847.3 340.1
Burglary 2,442.8 814.5
Automobile theft 2,067.5 526.5

[Smaland]

I don't know if E. St. Louis is the most dangerous, but it should be on the list.

A co-worker at a former job told me that he used to live in E. St. Louis; if for some reason I went there, if I told them that I knew (the nickname he gave me), I'd be all right.

Any city where you need to know someone in order to be safe is a tough town.

[zhaoyun]

There are several that come to mind.

Detroit, MI
Flint, MI
Gary, IN
South Central LA
Richmond, CA
East St Louis, MS

[Cristiano viejo]

what about Atlanta? many years ago I heard that Atlanta was the most dangeros in USA.

[GrebluBro]

Philadelphia

[Cristiano viejo]

What is clear is that crime means nigga