Submitted by gman2391 t3_104y22p in newhampshire
Clinically-Inane t1_j3b2b0v wrote
Reply to comment by Hotdogwiz in Areas to avoid in Manchester? by gman2391
The highest crime rate in the state is in somersworth and even that’s not much above the national average
Hotdogwiz t1_j3crhwa wrote
Exactly, you would be nuts to feel unsafe there. The NH cities don't place in the highest crime rate cities in new England and neither does Lawrence or Lowell. They all have incidents since they have a lot of people living there but the rates of crime are relatively low.
Clinically-Inane t1_j3hjzv1 wrote
I grew up in Lawrence but had no idea the crime rate there gets exaggerated tbh
I assumed people were being accurate when they said there’s an unusually high crime rate
D321G t1_j3ko4fe wrote
Yeah i’m pretty sure the most dangerous places in New England are near the Springfield area. Although old money Boston folks will have you think Lawrence is a war zone.
Clinically-Inane t1_j3kwyec wrote
I looked it up— according to FBI stats our chances of being the victim of a crime in Lawrence MA is 1 in 89, and it’s right around the national average
In Somersworth NH our risk of the same is 1 in 28 😐
We really just love to blame everything on people who are low income or living in poverty and people with brown skin, and Lawrence and Manchester make pretty damn easy targets in that regard— which is sad and pathetic
Clinically-Inane t1_j3l1jtx wrote
Maybe the reason I grew up thinking Lawrence was overall ~dangerous and crimey~ is because I lived in the area that’s marked with the red X on this map during that time; I find it hard to believe the neighborhood by neighborhood stats are the same or even close to the same now as they were when I lived there multiple decades ago, and if not maybe it’s just what I was exposed to (the people my parents kept company with, getting the shit beat out of me by a classmate on my way home from school in 2nd grade— I was allowed to walk alone to and from school at Weatherbee starting in 1st grade if that tells you anything, and at some point that’s fuzzy timewise there was the murder of a neighbor) along with what everyone around me was always saying (“Joe Schmoe is a drug dealer😮”) at the point in my life when I was young, impressionable, and didn’t have a great grasp on the world around me yet
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