Monday, June 22, 2009
The 25 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in America
Posted by Bruce VanWyngarden on Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:58 PM
Walletpop.com has compiled a list (using FBI crime stats) of the "25 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods" in America. Two of them are in Memphis: The area around Bellevue and Lamar and the area around Warford St. and Mount Olive Rd. See the complete list, with helpful maps, here.
As with most of these proliferating national "best" and "worst" lists, readers need to be aware that they are created primarily to draw readers and web traffic. But still, it's not a bad idea to know when (and where, at least, statistically) you're increasing your odds of running into trouble.
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Wow, and I'm about to move right dead smack in the middle of that area next week. Thanks a lot.
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I live in Annesdale Snowden and it is a wonderful historic neighborhood and I do not believe this statistic would be current or accurate but for the Lamplighter Motel at Lamar and Bellevue. Take the motel out of the equation and the crime stats would go way down. In the years I have lived there a few property crime incidences have occurred but no more than any other urban area. I regret we are getting such a bad rap when the area has improved greatly over the years, due to the watchful and vigilant neighbors who care and want Annesdale Snowden to be the best neighborhood in Memphis (we think it already is!).
please do look at the map of the area described as Bellevue and Lamar - it is a bit misleading.
I wonder whether those statistics reflect current or somewhat historic data. I happen to live in the new University Place development, and although we have a little more police presence than I have experienced outside of Midtown, there just hasn't been much action. Another thing that makes me wonder about the data is that the maps don't even reflect the new layout, and I have to give the pizza guy directions over the phone every time they deliver, because they can't get an updated internet map! I tend to agree with the Annesdale-Snowden resident, that the presence of that hotel makes the crime statistics go way up. All the same, I practice caution, given the number of people who walk the streets at Bellevue and Lamar. Perhaps if the hotel were closed and demolished, the lingering presence of people up to no good would dissapate.
We have been living there for 4 years now and the neighborhood has undergone a LOT of positive change during that time. If the Lamplighter were taken out of the equation, it would change the area completely. Imagine someone visiting the Stax museum - the Lamplighter is the first thing people see when they pass through our neighborhood. If they are coming off the interstate, it could even be their first impression of Memphis.
I have to wonder why a place like that is allowed to operate so close to a school anyway?
South Side ChiTown - Thanks for your comments. Anyone WITHOUT shit for brains care to add to this discussion?
South Side, that bullshit you're peddling has nothing to do with the black man. Don't try to pin your aggressive stupidity on a race of people who already have enough problems as it is, chief among them being people like yourself.
Do you think anyone who reads this website is impressed by what you have to say? Are we supposed to be awed by your close contact with people who are making life miserable for everyone around them? Are we supposed to think you're tough?
If you were tough, you would do everything within your power to get the hell away from that nonsense and live like a normal person. If you knew the first thing about what the black man goes through in his daily life, you would not be making excuses for the very ones who make it harder and more dangerous than it needs to be.
If you're supposed to be "explaining the black man," you're the biggest racist on the planet.
I can point out a few crack houses with curbside service in that area. I'm sure closing them down would help as much as closing the Lamplighter.
it all how u look at it memphis is bad and horrble that right i had to think a other word for memphis god i hate it here really hate it the people is sick and rude and lame it wont help trying to make this city better it wont help and i been down here most of my life
Does anyone here recall the old "HILL'S DINER" just west of the intersection on the north side of the street? It was past the alley behind the corner drugstore. I've quite a few fond memories of breakfasts in the pre-dawn there back in the 60's.
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