AMERICA'S DEADLIEST SMALL CITY / CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY 

That’s because probably about 0.01% of the population here has read a single self-help book and probably 90% or more have spent LOTS of $$$ on alcohol, gambling, fast food, candy & drugs. And considering about 0.01% end up changing their circumstances you can see it’s really not a politicians job to help people change their attitudes and behaviours. The politicians job is to stay friendly and amass fortunes for their buddies, themselves and keep the peace with other countries. Nobody is going to help someone who genuinely does not try to better themselves in any way day after day. Such is free will 🤷‍♂️

What politician claims everything is ok? Some specific examples from the area please.

Even more crazy people keep voting for them to do it 🤷🏾‍♀️

Hoods don’t count to em.

For the Many it feels like home 🙃 if they don't dirty up a little bit 😞 that's like mocking their spot 😆

I remember seeing it on TV & Idr a lot of it. I just know everything is all messed up & mostly broken beyond Repair.

Yeah Jackson has a population of 150k and ended 2021 with 160

Cairo il, Youngstown ohio, detroit, too…. These are all big cities too not just tiny cities

They're all suburbs of major cities as well. The history behind their blight is well known.

@@Roadtripmik I’d say among big cities Baltimore, St Louis, Cleveland and Memphis feel the most hopeless. At least New Orleans is a fun city despite all their problems

@@Entername-md1ev I would say cleveland is solid, new orleans is interesting but sketchy, Baltimore + st louis def major hoods: but theres good neighborhoods in Baltimore/st louis, Cleveland demolishes buildings but Baltimore just leaves up vacants

Trenton, Irvington are other 2

Exactly. I wonder what percentage of Camden's collective income is from federal subsidies, or state subsidies. 🤔🤔

This town runs on drug money and federal subsidies. 100%.

@@JdeC1994not as much as poor trailer parks all over this country

@@cmc2690 How do you know? 🤔🤨 How much of the poverty in rural America is due to low commodity prices? 🤔

He wouldn't' survive if he was white. But a black man can drive through a white neighborhood and no one will bother him.

How does it compare to Bridgeport or hood parts of New Haven, I have been to hood parts of New Haven and it didn't seem that bad, drove through Bridgeport but don't know what it's like

​@@HuckleberryHimCamden makes NH and BPT look like Disneyland. 🙏🏾

@@HuckleberryHim. New haven ct is paradise compared to camden nj

Even bridgeport was ok

My mom lived st 4th st and mechanic street .that was her school as well . When she was a kid mass on Sundays was in Latin

How does Newark compare? Or Paterson, or Trenton?

@@applejuice5635 I work in Paterson. It's not that bad. I wouldn't hang around at night. Same with Trenton. Same with Jersey City. Newark has really rough areas. Camden is the worst but the downtown, waterfront and college areas are pretty nice. NJ cities are cleaning up. It's a process but one thing rings completely true. These cities are filled with good honest working class people that just want a safe place to live and have pride for their neighborhoods.

Pound for pound believe it or not Salem might be the worst in the state!

@@JCVACCARO i'm from Newark and it's in fact not cleaning up Newark was 9th on the murder list before Chicago and it's way smaller. Camden is 10 minutes away from philly so they basically take on Phillies attitude same with Trenton Paterson isn't that bad either it has it's hoods but it's not as cutthroat as those other places

Increasing

i was shocked the soup factory didnt show up even once . iconic

"The city experienced white flight, as many White residents left the city for such segregated suburbs as Cherry Hill. In the 1960s, 1,289 families were displaced due the construction of the North-South Freeway, 85% of which were nonwhite families. " this is what google said when i asked .

Im preetty sure this was the federal government after world war II, not local by any means

@@softwetbread248 camden was white flight then apathy by the powers that be to my understanding . i woked with an old fella decades ago who grew up there , white , and he said in the summer when it got really hot everyone drug their mattresses out onto the sidewalk to sleep . the only constant is change ,

@@William.Shakespeare White flight was engineered by the fed and investors with redlining, the GI bill, and block busting. You don't just build a freeway in the middle of black communities, label it an unsafe area, deny black vets the ability to leave it, and then claim no part in it. Camden's situation is 100% fault of racist policies and government.

The East St. louis of St. louis, The PG county of DC

Im from nj and its rough considering it's size but its actually really small in comparison. It's more like a disconnected part of philly since It's literally 5 miles away, although in a different state. Idk I heard Chicago goes hard but Maybe it's one of those "grass is always worse on the other side type deals". Murder rate and drug sales are def high tho.

@@pauliewalnuts240 "I heard Chicago goes hard..." From who? New York? L.A.? Haven't you also heard about Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, St. Louis, East St. Louis, Cleveland, K.C., D.C., Philadelphia, Little Rock, Milwaukee, Oakland, Gary, Mobile, Jackson, Birmingham, Flint, Louisville, Cincinnati, Newark, Atlanta, Buffalo, etc.? Have you heard the rumors about 9-11?

Why are you singling out Chicago? Just because New York & L.A. do that so much? Are you one of the sheeple? Don't you even understand what "per capita" means? What state are you from?

@@Koopyspappy yeah 5 miles is carbrain talk, that's a decent distance, in reality these cities are literally right next to each other

@@JdeC1994your on nyc 🍆🍆

You do it

Do you say that to motion picture companies when they film inside neighborhoods ? You must not be familiar with this channel. He goes inside the stores, does street interviews, and recently did a food review at a hood restaurant in Detroit.

@@williemoore756 Thanks, didn't know

Chitterlings and Fried Chicken are their best sellers on the SNAP Cards.

Camden has been this way for a long time. However I see your point❤

@@alisongoeller-us7mx Maybe since the Great Depression. The Philly area has been fucked up since the 1930’s.

E. Cleveland's a real good one!

Many of the houses are far from dilapidated. The neighborhood would benefit from the city’s attention to streets, trash removal and demolition of abandoned houses.

Bunch of drugs is how they work

🤔

😞 The executor of Bluejay's will was required to post this comment...

I'm from Reading. Happened to be in Camden one evening and met up with a homeless guy to find some. And fire it was. I almost drifted into the side of a semi on my drive home. Probably about 6 or 7 years ago. Everything is fent now isn't it? I've been on subs for 6 years.

What is it with whites and “nice cars”? They can’t have nice cars? They probably own their homes and can afford the nicer cars. How does it affect your life?

Leasing and priorities.

You need a nice ride to get respect

That changes fron year to year. Bessemer is usually near the top also along with E. St Louis and several others. Camden has consistantly been among the worst small towns since the 80's, at or near the top of the list more than any other small city in all the worst categories. Also Bessener is really small with only 25,000 not really even in the same class with Camden which has about 80,000.

​@@CharlieBo313Camden been top 5 for almost 30years

@@Narcissist-d6g He just basically said that bro. He said Camden been at or near the top since the 80's. That's actually more than 30 years.

Who says that Bessemer is a city? Last I checked, its population is only 26 k.

@@JdeC1994 That’s still a city. City≠big city

I heard it’s just as bad as Compton

Its not as bad as it used to be but still much worse than rough

Nah it’s still bad

Lindenwold

@@Nicki-q4mfax them lindenwold apartments get busy

It feel more like Philly than anywhere in Jersey.

The architecture looks the same. Just like Reading too.

Are you saying you want to work in Canada? This is Camden, New Jersey in the USA by the way

Jersey also have some of the prettiest upscale most expensive cities in America such as "Alpine" "Haddonfield" do your homework!

Since that night your mom made my toes curl😂👉

Americans

@@applejuice5635 blaxicans l

Old order Amish

@@torcik yes the afro-amish.

Rich corrupt politicians that own mega real estate and sit on gold toilets while everyone else just scraps by?

You don't have to actually see crimes being committed live on camera to prove a place in dangerous. I've driven through gang areas before and nothing happened, but I know it's dangerous. For your info the video I made in Camden about a week ago a man tried to abduct a woman and that was on camera.

Its there...

Wilmington Delaware said they’re number one.

@@rachelnan6875Delaware?? 😂 Did they have 10 murders last year for a city of 20,000??

​@@rachelnan6875I fuck wit Wilmington DE it's popping out there and they definitely get busy and I'm from jersey city NJ been to Camden NJ alot too Camden just a lil worse over all

Stop it. People already know. Compton isn't bad. And doesn't look bad. Compton was worse back in the 80's and 90's just like everywhere else but was never as bad as those rappers pretended. Compton more famous than it is bad.

@@williemoore756 idk man. Compton and south central are pretty dangerous. All the gangs started there too. Compton is americas top five dangerous cities

@@williemoore756you ain’t from LA clearly because Comptons most dangerous years was the early 2000s like 2006. Record setting numbers. Still ranked only behind Oakland and Stoccton as the most dangerous cities in Cali

@@williemoore756the worst year in Compton’s history was 2006 record setting numbers. Idk where you from but don’t let anyone gas you up to think Compton ain’t still like that. I’d make the argument these young niggas is worse than the 80s & 90s

@@williemoore756btw LA just to be clear always ranks top 2 in total m*rders. I never put much stocc in the whole per capita statistics. Of course smaller cities will have higher rates

lol

Well this doesn’t look like something that just happened in the last four years. Before Made In China this was a manufacturing town. Remember that next time you buy Made in China comrade.