The 10 MOST DANGEROUS Cities in FLORIDA

So you're at the beach, kind of chilling, checking out the scene, when POW! Out of nowhere, here's this creepy dude who wants your phone and your wallet. You hand him over and you're grateful to be alive. He didn't notice your public sub, or he would have taken that as well. That was close, but you made it. This time. If you had paid attention on YouTube, you would have known to stay off that beach, because this place is a haven for criminals, people. Overall, Florida's more dangerous than many other states, but it's not crazy here. Florida ranks 21st in the country for total crime per capita. That accounts for the number of robberies, arsons, rapes, attacks, and murders. All of it. There's a lot of places in Florida where you can chill out without much of a worry at all. But in many parts of the state, you got to watch your back. All right, kids. You be good. These kids. What's up? I'm the Florida police, and what I say goes. And what I'm saying is these people in Florida need to knock it off, but they won't. Today, we're going to look at the most dangerous cities in Florida. It's going to be the places where you have a high chance of being the victim of a crime yourself. There's going to be some small cities on here that are going to be a little surprising, and the bigger cities definitely won't be surprising. These are the kind of places that keep me up at night. Yep, on it. All right. So right now we're actually going to go to our first most dangerous city in Florida. Give you a chance to see exactly what I'm talking about. If you think that you are tough in Florida, there's lots of trouble. Everybody here will tell you better hide from all of the dangerous. Florida, one of the fastest growing states of all. High crime in many areas certainly isn't enough to deter people from flocking here in droves. Going back to 1960, you can see that crime wasn't that bad at all. Then there was a huge spike in the 80s and 90s, and crime here tripled. Today, crime has come back to the 1960 levels again, so that's good. It's not as murderous here these days. However, in the cities we're going to talk about, there's robberies in broad daylight, carjackings, and shootings every single day. There's neighborhoods in most of these cities that you shouldn't drive through, and certainly they should be avoided after dark, like here in Daytona Beach. Of course, places with a huge number of tourists are going to be more dangerous than the average place, and we know Daytona Beach has been a place for people to come and party forever now. Bring in a bunch of drunk, rowdy, redneck tourists, and homeless druggies, and throw them all together, and you're going to have trouble, mister. This is actually the fourth most violent place in the state, when you measure the number of assaults, rapes, and murders per person. Although, a lot of that's coming from outsiders coming into town. But would you want to live in a place where there's shootings, people getting beat up all the time? Probably not. I wouldn't. Overall, 1 in 20 people are property crime victims every year, and 1 in 100 are violent crime victims. A big part of the problem here in Daytona Beach are all the cheap motels that are around every corner. Check this out. In the last three years, the police report log for one motel is 17 pages long, and the motel has eight rooms. Cheap motels in Daytona Beach, they're a gathering point for drunks, and druggies, and other troublemakers, and this is the one place to go for fighting, and vandalism, and warrant arrests, and shootings, and murders. One officer said, it's the cheap Daytona Beach motels that are the epicenter for all the problems in town. It's a constant flow of people coming in and out of the motels to buy and use drugs, and it's spilling out into the community. There's neighborhoods on the south and east side of town, where parents say they can't even walk their kids to the bus stop, because they're being harassed by people trying to sell them drugs. What? Kids should say no to drugs. That's right, Mappy. Good job. Drugs are bad, kids. Stay away. I know I'll never do them. Next up, we go all the way down the coast of Miami Beach. Sure, there's a lot to love about Miami Beach, with all the nightlife at South Beach and the boardwalk where everybody hangs out, but while tourism brings a lot of money to the community, tourism also brings in an exceptional amount of crime. There's only one other place in the whole state with more robberies per capita than here, in Miami Beach. Like Daytona Beach, this place attracts young, dumb people who want to buy drugs and get into fights. A lot of them have guns on them. They just added 50 new cops to the streets here to combat a crime surge, and the mayor here says it's the highest level of policing they've ever had to use in Miami Beach. We need to face it. We need to fix it, the Miami Beach mayor said. Our residents are fed up. They just think this area has become a magnet for misbehavior, and they don't want to put up with it anymore. Well, I don't blame them. Get a handle on it, people. I mean, a young father was just murdered right on Ocean Drive by a guy high on mushrooms. However, Miami Beach is the least violent city we're going to talk about. Ranks 13th in the state for number of assaults and murders per capita. Now we're going to take a trip to the Panhandle to visit Florida's 8th most dangerous city. We're here in Panama City, which is, of course, a tourist destination because of all the pretty beaches and the fancy shopping. But don't let your guard down here, pal. There's only four other cities in the whole state with a higher number of robberies per capita. Panama City also has the highest rate of rapes in the whole state. That's just sick and terrible. In Florida, 76% of residents are white, and the white population is responsible for 70% of all crimes. The black community is 14% of Florida's population, but blacks make up 26% of total arrests. Orlando? What? It's true. While this isn't Atlanta-level crime, there's some really bad areas in Orlando, and robberies are a big problem here. Orlando's more dangerous than all but 3% of all US cities, where people have a 1 in 25 chance of being robbed every year. Violence isn't crazy here, but it's a thing, and it's going up. People who live in Orlando say they're fed up with all the violence here, and the number of shootings here are up by 40% since last year. People face a 1 in 124 chance of being attacked or shot at. The worst parts of Orlando are in the north end, in an area called Pine Hills. They call it Crime Hills. And then the south side of town's really bad, all along Orange Beach Trail. They're being more aggressive here in Orlando to fight off all these shootings. They're going out and arresting gang members more, and they're just going out and talking with people in the community. More cops on the streets help settle things a bit, so that's good. Now, they say mentoring youths is a good way to prevent them from turning to a life of crime. Here in Orlando, there's a program called Hope Mentoring. It's really trying hard to get kids to knock off the violence. The organizer says, I tell them, you don't have to flash money. You can go get a job. You can stay in school, and you can pull your pants up. Amen to that, brother. Pull your pants up and get a job. I like that guy. We'd get along. This woman got into trouble in Orlando recently. I wouldn't mess with her. Interestingly, 26% of all arrests in Florida are women. Our next stop on our danger tour of Florida is Little Lake City in Columbia County, just off of I-10, kind of halfway between Tallahassee and Jacksonville. Here, people have a 1 in 15 chance of being robbed every year, giving Lake City the fourth highest rate of robberies in the state. Again, it's not always the bigger cities that are the most dangerous when you measure a resident's chances of being a victim every year. That's where we're going to see a lot of northern Florida. That's where a lot of crimes happen in. This whole stretch here along the whole top of the state. Because what's interesting is when you measure all crimes per capita, it's Little Levy County that has the highest crime rate. It's not even close. Levy County also has the highest rate of domestic violence in the state. Perry County, right next door, ranks second for domestic violence. It has a lot of crime up there, too. What's with this whole part of Florida and crime? If I ever saw a man hitting a woman, I would handcuff him to the bumper and drag him to the ocean so he would drown. That's pretty aggressive, super gay cop. Maybe just arrest him. I don't know if you have to drown him. But spousal abuse is a terrible thing here in Florida, so we need to do something, right? Riviera Beach isn't really a well-known spot for a lot of people out of state, but a lot of the druggie losers and gangs know this place well. It's in Palm Beach County, just north of West Palm Beach. Nearby Lake Worth is also criminally challenged. There's only 30,000 people in Riviera Beach, but there were 11 murders last year. You do the math on that, and you'd have a 1 in 2,700 chance of being killed. Maybe that's high. I'm sure some of the people killed here are prostitutes. Just last month, a 28-year-old woman was shot and killed in her own driveway at 6 in the damn morning. What the hell, people? This place has the 10th highest violent crime rate in the whole state, too. There's thousands of reports of robberies here every year. Riviera Beach, bad news. So's Lake Worth. Of course, we knew Jacksonville would be on this list. Come on, now. It's the largest city in Florida, so there's going to be a lot of low-life losers who can't keep their hands to themselves here. 17% of Jacksonville lives in poverty, and it shows. Property crime is rampant here. The average person has a 1 in 24 chance of being robbed every single year. There's tons of assaults here, and shootings. The northwest side of town here is the worst part of Jacksonville. This is where you're going to see gang shootings in the middle of the day. Here's a list of the Jacksonville zip codes with the worst of it. The west side is also really bad, and downtown has cops just sitting around in their cars on every block. There's a reason for that. Look at this map. This is where all the murders happened in Jacksonville just last year alone. Last year, there were 176 people killed in Jacksonville, and 80% of them were by gunfire. That means 14% of all murders in the whole state happened here in Jacksonville. Duval County has seen a 13% increase in murders and a 25% increase in assaults in the last year, so it's not getting any better here. Look at this chart. Murders and homicides have been going up for the last 10 years. Jacksonville officials say they're going into the worst parts of town to try to talk to people before problems start. Let's see if they can talk some sense into these people. Good luck with that. They hardly ever listen. Now we're going to go just north of Miami to the third most dangerous place you can live in Florida, Appalachia. People who know Appalachia are like, it's only third? You mean it gets worse? Yes, it does. Appalachia is actually the second most violent place in the whole state per capita. It's always been bad here. I mean, in 2004, Appalachia had the highest violent crime rate in the whole country. Back then, Appalachia had a budget crisis, so they couldn't pay cops to man the streets. So people just went wild, because that's what sicko criminals do. Today, it's better, but not by much. One in every 50 people here is attacked, raped, or killed. That's just insane. There's also a car theft every three days here. Here's a couple of other interesting Florida crime statistics. Almost half of the value of all stolen property in the state is stolen cars, and about 60% of stolen cars are recovered in Florida. In total, 30% of all property stolen in Florida is recovered. I guess that's good. Or bad. And who is our high crime runner-up? That would be Florida City, a wild and crazy place way down near the tip of the state. If you've ever been here before, you're like, yeah, this place is off the chain for crime. It doesn't help that 4 in 10 people here live in poverty. It's just unintelligent, desperate people doing desperate things. In Florida City, the violent crime rate is a staggering 3,000 incidents per 100,000 people, and that's eight times higher than the national violent crime rate. And that makes Florida City the most violent place in the state. Folks here have a 1 in 38 chance of being the victim of a violent crime. That's just crazy. 1 in 38 chance of being beaten up or shot at. Robberies per capita in Florida City are also the third highest in the state. 1 out of 11 people here has property stolen or their home burglarized every single year. Florida City, bad news, people. And our most dangerous place to live in Florida is probably not going to be a surprise. It's Miami, everyone. You have a 1 out of 157 chance of being the victim of violence every single year in Miami, and a 1 in 15 chance of being the victim of a property crime. So 25% of Miami lives in poverty, but there's a huge wealthy population here too. Mix the rich and the poor so closely, and you're going to have trouble. Miami's very much a good block, bad block type of place. You have these really safe neighborhoods right next door to crime-ridden slums. And there's places in Miami that look all safe in the day, but at night, they're no man's land. The worst part of Miami proper is Liberty City, but basically, this whole area here, from Miami Gardens through Appalachia, into Hialeah, into downtown Miami, it's just a bad place in many areas. They're actively gentrifying some of the worst parts of Miami, so hopefully that runs the riffraff out, but it is bad here. Miami gets a lot of bad press. Actually, it was once called the worst place to live in the country, even worse than Detroit. News agencies regularly say Miami's just a terrible place to raise a family. One of the worst places to retire to. It's just really, really bad here for crime. It doesn't get any worse in the whole state. An upside to all this is the high number of concealed carry holders in Miami. That means there's low lives that are probably less likely to do things, because, well, a lot of folks in Miami are packing heat. Now, Florida's the third most populous state overall, so there's bound to be problems. Mix in booze and drugs and crazy Florida, man, and you're going to have big problems. You can see on this map that a lot of the most dangerous regions in Florida are going to be in the northern part of the state. That's where all the problems happen in, for the most part. But, of course, there's plenty of safe places here, too. I'm sure you're curious to know about that. Well, the safest counties, when you measure crimes per capita, are Union, Gilchrest, and Santa Rosa counties. And some of the safest cities here, where you can relax and not have to deal with all this BS, are going to be wealthier places like North Palm Beach, Weston, Longboat Key, Sanibel, and Marco Island. So go there if you want to keep your family and your public's subs safe. If you think that you are tough in Florida, there's lots of trouble. Everybody here will tell you better hide from all of the dangers. Hey, guys, so if anything I just talked about upset you or made you sad or mad, well, then do something about it. Call your local leaders and demand change. Chip in and help those in need. Make your community better. Because communities don't get better without hard work and determination. America's a great place. It just needs some more love and pride. This is Sage, Nick's manager. This has been a Corner House Entertainment production. And are you looking to move and need advice? I do consulting. That's right. I'll sit down and talk about where the next perfect place for you and your family should be. I do it all the time. Together, let's find you a new home that's safe and checks all your boxes. 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