Made a wrong turn in my city (large midwestern) and ran by two memorials within one block. Similar thing happened in Baltimore.
however, I was out too early for there to be gang members out.
Made a wrong turn in my city (large midwestern) and ran by two memorials within one block. Similar thing happened in Baltimore.
however, I was out too early for there to be gang members out.
Our home XC course was at Herring Run Park, which is relatively safe but surrounded by bad areas. I think runners heard one shooting about 10 years ago coming up the big hill onto Bel Air road, and someone almost sicced his pit bull on us.
How would you run at notre dame if you weren't a student there? I attended, and South Bend is a violent sh*thole outside of the campus.
I'm not going to say that I support stop and frisk, but it has been shown to reduce crime.
sdfsdfsf wrote:
I used to live in downtown LA and some of my morning runs would take me through skid row. Worst not in terms that I felt unsafe, but of the deplorable conditions that place transforms into at night.
I used to live in Skid Row and walk through there daily when I moved further into central downtown.
It looks worse than it is. There is actually safety in numbers which is better than being caught alone in an isolated warehouse.
Occasionally people will rob others there out of drug fueled desperation for dope. Once I was chased by a guy with a huge can a bear mace. I literally watched a stream go right next to my head barely missing me. He got mad that my friend and I were passing through 'his' street at night.
I have seen people jumped and stabbed there. My friend got his teeth chipped up in a fight out there. If you get into a fight with the wrong guy, he will call out and half a dozen people will run out of tents to jump one person.
Mostly people get jumped for not paying their drug debts.
If you are a regular customer (of drugs) or a worker down there and they are used to seeing you, you generally get left alone.
Furry Claws Freak Me Out wrote:
East St. Louis, hands down.
I know this post is 11 years old but there is no way anyone who doesn't live in East St Louis would ever be able to run in East St. Louis. ESL isn't like the Chicago south side or the Bronx or even north side st. Louis where you can end up there accidentally on foot. The Mississippi river cuts ESL off from downtown STL with the exception of 3 bridges, only 1 of which allows foot traffic and even that has been shut down recently due crime. On the Illinois side you have to drive through 5 miles of the semi ghetto industrial wastelands of Madison, Belleville, and Cahokia to get into ESL proper from any direction.
ESL is literally rotting into the ground. The tallest building in ESL has been condemned for over 40 years and is in serious danger of collapsing. Packs of wild dogs roam abandoned blocks of row houses.
It's sad. The casino was the worst thing that ever happened to ESL as it provides a revenue stream to keep the city govt corrupt enough to prevent wholesale change. I'm not a fan of gentrification but ESL is truly hell on earth.
chikin wrote:
South side Chicago near Midway. It was during the day but I drove from Comiskey down Western that night and I was scared sh!tless. My buddy, a Chicago native, told me not to stop at red lights in Englewood.
West side of Chicago. Started in 'burbs and continued all the way down North Ave until I hit Wicker Park. Most people there left me alone, but I spotted a black guy standing on a corner glaring at me. When I got closer, he reared up on the balls of his feet and shouted "[B-word!]" at me. I immediately turned my gaze to the street, hoping a cop car was coming or going. And I got ready to be punched in the face. I was lucky, as he let me pass unmolested. I probably made his day. Haven't taken that route since.
At some university in Texas. The coach was notorious for his side business, tanning salons with hidden video cameras that supplied videos of nude women to pornographic web sites. That creep still posts here.
New Jersey
Wasn't while running, but walking around Newark for two days visiting a friend was very nerve wracking.
Didn't feel massively safe in Jamaica Plains tbh.
Or some areas in Brooklyn.
Plain!
Downtown Denver. Saw a lot of drugs being used under bridges and the users didn't seem like people running past them.
Tijuana, on the river.
It wasn't actually bad tbh, didn't feep unsafe or anyrhing, just a fair few bums north of Rio Plaza. But I did trip on a sidewalk slab somewhere around Plaza Independencia and sprained my PCL. And it's definitely the worst area I've ever run in.
I'll second Compton, Ca. At a dual xc meet vs their high school there while checking out the course we found broken glass and sharpened metal rods just protruding out of the ground like they were placed there deliberately.
It doesn’t matter if it’s urban or rural. Packs of no daddy teenagers are the common denominator in unsafe environments to run through. That’s why being a teacher is an at risk job. The daddy’s in society need to step up.
I would run after the sun went down every night in downtown Vicksburg, MS. Every street and neighborhood is black but I never had a problem.
they would just stare from the yard or porch as I ran by.
East LA and Washington DC were probably the worst, but I grew up running in an area that had 40 straight days with a drive by shooting (and I saw one), so worst is a relative term.
Aintry, Georgia
Where?
In West Philadelphia born and raised
On the track is where I spent most of my days
Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin' all cool
And all doing 400m repeats outside of the school
When a couple of guys who were up to no good
Started makin' trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
And said "You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air"
I begged and pleaded with her day after day
But she packed my suitcase and sent me on my way
She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket
I put my Walkman on and said "I might as well kick it"
First class, yo, this is bad
Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass
Is this what the people of Bel-Air living like?
Hmm, this might be all right
But wait, I hear they're prissy, bourgeois, and all that
Is this the type of place that they should send this cool cat?
I don't think so, I'll see when I get there
I hope they're prepared for the Prince of Bel-Air