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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
Let's be honest. These "bad areas" are what we used to call "ghettos": neighborhoods of very poor, mostly minority people fighting among themselves over the crumbs of society.
We have been trying for generations to find ways to deal with generational poverty and the crime it breeds . . . with little success except by incarcerating large percentages of the populations of these neighborhoods (which we have done).
But there is almost no chance someone not forced by their socio-economic reality to live in these areas would have to go there or, if they are smart, would go there. Your kids would only venture there if they are in the market for drugs. I suppose they might wish to ride a bus line that transits one of these zones but that's why God gave us Uber: You don't need to subject yourself to the "blinders on" mentality of a city transit bureaucrat pretending it's safe to send the rest of the public into the war zone.
Why doesn't Canada have this issue? Well Canada didn't have slavery for a start (and the legacy of that is responsible for a lot of what is still going on). And Canada has the US as a buffer between it and the poverty, crime and violence of Latin America. Finally, one might blame US gun policy but I am confident these neighborhoods would be as dangerous for outsiders even if there weren't guns. Most of the shootings are of neighborhood rivals and are not mass events like the more famous school incidents. Once the weapon of choice may have been the switch blade knife, and it could be again, but the neighborhoods were still dangerous.
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You're much less likely to get caught in the cross-fire of a switchblade attack though.
Anyway I've taken buses through some of the worst neighborhoods in Chicago (to get to the other side... like going to Midway Airport from the University of Chicago) and... it's fine. I suppose if you accidentally got off at the wrong corner it might be uncomfortable but you're unlikely to be in grave danger...
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