Driving North Avenue from North 27th Street Down to Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd. Rough neighborhood on the North side with A lot of abandoned properties and crime.
I used to deliver ice on this avenue in 1978-1979 for Hometown Ice. I delivered to hundreds of businesses in the ghetto. The area was poor back then. But the main streets like North and Locust and Burleigh were busy and full of businesses. Store owners were the nicest people you will ever meet. The job was so much fun, I would have done it for free. Not one mean word or look, ever. The other side of the story is the police dept, which was tough on all the people, but especially POC, flooded the streets, day and night with cops. The police were everywhere. Nobody was hiding out at a fire station or park or hidden location and taking a nap or having a coffee break. The cops were on the streets, in cars, on bikes and foot. There was also a judge named Seraphim, who put lawbreakers into Waupun for very long sentences. While another judge might ngive a armed robber 5 years, Seraphim would give them 35 years. If you were a repeat criminal and came before that judge, you were done living a life of crime. The police chief and Seraphim were both gone by 1985 and the culture changed. The parking lots and vacant lots you see on North Ave were once homes or businesses, but burned down and got paved over. Same for many other areas. Immigration will restore the inner city. People from different lands will settle the area, buy homes, create businesses and renovate the homes that remain. Crime will evaporate and people will walk the streets at night. I have seen that exact scene play out in many other depressed areas.
Milwaukee has been lucky and the last decade or so been apart of an initiative to make the city cleaner and safer. We've gotten money from federal grants to demolish the "blighted homes" and it has made the city look a thousand times better ! Don't let the main streets fool you though, had he of turned down any street you would have seen empty blocks and a house or 2 on those blocks... Don't be fooled by it not looking like east st Louis or Gary Indiana, Milwaukee is a "murder capital city",.
I wouldn't consider milwaukee rough. There's just no mobility. Nobody really leaves that area. Very segregated. It's hard to become successful if your born in certain areas
Milwaukee's not rough. Hmmm 🤔 Milwaukee has some the most homicides overall, most homicides per Capita & Milwaukee is the #1 city with the highest spike in homicides out of any city in America...
@@travisbinder9426 idk boss, over there by 76th and Mill Rd used to go down! Especially when they had that festival at that church there.. it has calmed down alot tho
Milwaukee is rough in the sense that there are parts of the north side that are beat to shit with a lot people trying to make it better but it’s harder just because the areas been rough for so long, still good people living there. U want real crazy. Go north or center round the twenties and head west. 45 and center and 65th and center are like two different worlds. Same with like 60th and north Ave heading north to 60th and fondy thst would be a real interesting video see how racially and economically segregated the city is.
@@Dad-stories1of1 Yes and I hope it get softer. No one wants their city to be violent and bad. We want our black communities to flourish not wither. Keep that hardcore energy elsewhere
I don't care what nobody say good or not back in the days 70s and 80s we can walk on these streets with no problem. I know because I did it many times.
My dad took me there for tires and batteries. Shop at Sears while we waited. Lived on 11th and Burleigh. Kids of another color pushed me around . That’s when we moved. And then everyone followed. Pick a city. Probably a similar story. Rode an electrical service truck into this area many times over 40 years. The people were very nice.
Hampton is nowhere close to North Ave for crime homie. Come on noe get serious. Only thing they really be doin on Hampton is pullin jack moves. Its rough, but it aint North Ave rough.
@@josheternal shit back in the day them HPT boys on Hampton used to run shit! Hampton dont be going crazy like that no more. North, center, locust, burliegh, keefe be wild asf especially during summer
@@midwesthoodrat You could walk any street, at any hour in Milwaukee before 1985. The cops were everywhere. And those 12-15 Tactical Squads were roaming North and Wright and Locust, non stop. Nobody was shooting back then, just night sticks. Tactical Squad did not care about your color, they beat everybody.
Took this road a couple times.. I remember going to that mall on the left at like 0:42. Soon as we went in there was a fight and looked like someone went outside to the trunk. Dipped out real quick LOL
@@tornellthomas4290 that's what I was telling someone whosaid Milwaukee wasn't "ruff". Had he turned down any one of these streets they would of seen empty blocks abanded houses and "ruff" shit! 😁
Ghost Town area is probably the worst part of Milwaukee for a long time... between 21st Center and Meinecke , then The Zoo area is 2nd worst part from Chambers to Auer ave between 21st and 35th, #4 Highland project area 🦌
Every city has hoods and gangs doesn't mean it needs to intimidate me especially if i grew up running around them same hoods and gangs and fyi Milwaukee has never been known for strong gang ties lol northside 32yrs
When I was growing up and u really wanted a good show, fights, shootings, dice games, thick chicks, Chevy donks, deuce & a quarters, cutlasses etc etc have yo a** between N. 35th to 20th from Capitol to North Ave it was a wrap. There r other areas in the city that u got ur issue too but those boundaries I mentioned was the cream of the crop and everybody knew. Even ppl who were from 27th & Kilbourn, Wells and that area got down hard but they knew our end going north went in even harder.
rough neighbourhoods in the USA are the result of unlimited capitalism and loss of community values. Realise that you are not alone on planet earth. You can always have more of this and more of that? Does it make you happy? no...you ll become a consumption slave....free your mind and read books! here in europe we dont have such rough neighbourhoods...because socialism has strong influence. Especially countries like sweden and denmark thats why they are the happiest on earth
