The 10 Most DANGEROUS Cities in California
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- Holy crap! These are the places in California that are CRAZY dangerous!
Overall, crime in California is way above the national average. Currently, California is the 12th most dangerous state, and it’s getting more dangerous each year. There’s a lot of places here where it’s really safe, but some TERRIBLE areas where you shouldn’t go, even in the daytime.
So here we are in California. This is south Los Angeles. Now back in the 90s, this place was a real war zone. But most of the troublemakers left south LA decades ago, and now, this place isn’t so bad anymore. California’s full of surprises like that. In fact, look at this graph. In the early 90s, California’s crime was just about the highest in the nation. And today, it’s gone down a lot. But not in places like the ones we’ll talk about.
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# 12 for the most populous state in the country isn’t that bad , just trying to give California some bad publicity.
@@reubenblanco3021it's not good
El Salvador has been imprisoning all their lowlife criminals. If they did that in the states. Every city would prosper and be safe
Your state is infested with sin and the long term hate towards God has been taking a huge toll.
Bakersfield here. Yes it's dangerous and crime-ridden, but we also have the distinction of being the most polluted city with the worst air quality in the country! What a time to be alive.
Not sure about today, but in the 20th century, you had folks from Bakersfield or nearby that lived their whole lives there that talked like Okies or Texans. Their parents went there during the Great Depression and brought their ways with them and they ended up talking and thinking like them.
The bad air ruined my mother’s respiratory system. She never smoked, but she had COPD when she died in 2011.
@@jondstewart Those folks are still there, alive and well living just outside of Bakersfield in Oildale. It’s bizarre hearing that accent knowing where they live.
Wow, I stayed in Bakersfield for a few days. I didn't know it was that bad. It is super hot in comparison to LA though! Whew!!
@@joshdeskin6766 I used to work in Oildale. The Arkansas of Bakersfield. And not in a good way.
Lived in California most of my life, you are going to need a good amount of money to live even in a decent city, let alone the good ones. It is so freakin expensive here, so good luck.
I should be telling you good luck after everything i just saw in this video
Yes! The house we used to live in in Laguna Niguel is worth a million-and-a-half dollars now. I can tell you my parents didn't pay that much for it 30 years ago LOL
I would also strongly advise against moving to NYC, as it is just as horribly expensive here.
For the love of God no one move here. The people born here are struggling to escape. Do not fucking move here you fools.
Born an Raised in California as I seen the best of time then after graduation I joined the military an left the state
Just move next door to the Hell's Angels clubhouse and it's the safest place in Oakland.
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@@hunterthompson6737 lol your a fool. They are still alive and well just coordinated with the cartels.
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As a British visitor, I found San Francisco incredibly scary, far worse than LA. The area near to the civic centre was full of homeless and addicts. I know people can’t always help their circumstances but it was very intimidating and disappointing. For years I had a romantic view of SF from television and films. The people were rude, not friendly and unhelpful, which was a contrast to the better parts of LA where people generally wanted to make us welcome.
That's so unfortunate. Sorry about that. I'm from LA and used to love visiting SF. I've been many places in the world and SF was one of my favorites. It used to be such a fun place to visit. I'll never return.
@@YA-qj8fx I have always loved America because people are generally very kind, particularly if you need help but SF was very intimidating. When in Las Vegas we went on a coach tour with some lovely people from West Virginia and Wisconsin to the Grand Canyon and we are still in touch 25 years later and as I say the nice parts of LA, people were open and friendly. I suppose SF due to its immense wealth from Tech industries, will be a draw for disenfranchised people trying to make a new life, hence the homeless problem.
@@paulwild3676 Yes, Americans, especially outside of the big cities, can be very kind and generous. I'm glad you made good friends here.
@@YA-qj8fx Yes many times. Even in New York Lol
San Francisco used to be a world class city. Sad to see it go down hill so badly.
Oakland is my hometown. Oakland is a war zone , always has been , always will be. Growing up I never expected to make it out of my 20's.
Going OVER Oakland on the BART is close enough!, 4 me , ,😳
Well if you’re still here today, then that’s a great thing. 👍
@@darianthescorpion1132 thank you for saying that 🙏
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@@expatatlarge5286 $tone City Rollin💯's
If you see someone under your car with a power tool, hop into your car and start it.
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10. San Francisco 2:11
9. Barstow 3:47
8. Richmond 4:57
7. Signal Hill 6:31
6. Red Bluff 7:16
5. Commerce 8:16
4. San Bernardino 9:06
3. Stockton 10:16
2.Emeryville 11:45
1. Oakland 13:06
No one even mentions the real city? Now that's real! Pomona ! America's favorite town.
Signal hill?!😂🤦♂️
@@lbclassicsnthrills7376 I know right
Los Angeles
Signal Hill??🤔🤔🤔
I felt pity why there are many homeless in the US. I'm from the Philippines and lots of people here in my country wanted to go to America. But when I saw the real situation I can tell myself the homeless there is worst than my country. I hope your government can do solutions with the problem.
Amen 🤍💙🙏🏽
@Michelle Everywhere you go in the US there's homeless people. Sad that people like you like to pretend that the homeless problem doesn't exist in each and every state in this country.... It does
It didn't used to be like this. I tell a lot of people in the Philippines when I visit the truth, USA was great until the 2000s decade. The good times are in the past.
Slumps in Philippines are as bad as homeless camps here,plus a lot of homeless people in Philippines live in cemetery.
The difference is, Philliphine government is not afraid to punish criminals
Emeryville home of Pixar studios. Every store has a security guard. Also note Emeryville is on the border with Oakland.
Not traders joe's
I use to live on the docks.
emeryville is carved out of oakland just for corporate tax reasons. it’s the scared yuppies keeping tax $ out of oakland that’s the problem, not the people
Oakland is at its worst this year, and alot of the shootings seem random..it's like..all the criminals are just trigger happy or high on crack, speed, or whatever drug they're taking now. Even the nice areas in Oakland are dangerous now like Lake Marit. Oakland is litterally Hell on earth.
California as a whole is like this. The entire west coast actually. Everybody in liberal/democrat areas are on meth, fentanyl, and are ready to shoot at a moments notice. Disarming the population and making guns hard to get for regular people backfired as usual with democrat policies.
Bwahhhahaha....
@@JesusChrist2000BC nothing to do with politics…. It has to do with the pandemic, people not working, businesses being closed, and those who used to rely on the waste or recycling to get by, that they are now looking for a quick score. I’m not saying it’s right, and I agree that it’s become a shooting range for drug addicts and criminals in some areas, but let’s just agree that this all sucks for all of us.
It’s a cake walk compared to iraq
@@lawrenceboatright3035 Ironically they call Oakland "Baby Iraq"
I’ve lived inbetween Oakland and emeryville for most of my life (I’m 22) as a child I saw my parents mugged infront of me , almost died in drive by when they shot the wrong apartment, dad nearly died from being jumped for no reason , and homeless never changed they just move the homeless groups into different streets, had gotten threatened to be killed by my neighbor and the police never came and just left a call checking in 6 hours later. There’s many groups in the city that want to change Oakland for the “better” but essentially collect donations, don’t do anything and just pat themselves in the back. This place is the Wild West.
Aye bruh , I went to pick up my brother at school and some mf was sniffing crack right in front of the kids. I love and hate Oakland Yk?
And yet, they keep voting the same people into office. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Californians can't get out of their own way.
@@brothertspoon5899 The "wild, wild west" was safer than Oakland
I got jumped one night 2 blocks from my apt. around 24th St./Telegraph. The hospital kept me for 5 days cuz my head injury was so bad. I got some free counseling sessions afterwards and had to get a copy of my police report. One day my counselor said "did you know you're actually a black man?" (I'm totally white, my assailant was black, not that it really matters) I asked her what are you talking about??? She said, "on your police report they put your race down as black." Why would they do that? Easy--it's so they could list as 'black on black' violent crime and that way they wouldn't have to investigate it. While I did have a lot of good times there too, I'm never going back to Oakland. Or CA.
Born in 97, lived in California my entire life. Have never been robbed, had anything from car stolen or broken into, nothing criminal like done towards me. Happy to say that😁
One of the beauty’s of living in San Quentin lol.
Then you're lucky
@@kw7400 extremely lucky
I've lived in Sacramento for 31 years and my car has been broken into and vandalized 3 times. Most recent break in was last month.
What part of CA have you lived in??
When visiting Belmont beach and staying at an Air BnB last month in San Diego, I encountered a friendly elderly man on the beach with his family. He wasn’t that sharp, but told me he came with his parents from Mississippi when he was 10 years old and bought a home in the early 1970’s for $25,000 and been there every since in the same place and that he’d love to come to Alaska one day where I live. A common working man that lives in San Diego proper can afford it because he’s been there so long. That’s the key unless you’re in an extremely professional career or rich!
I used to work on repairing Government housing projects in Richmond in 2008, things never change.
I lived in Richmond around that time as well. Can't imagine what it is like now.
Your channel is great ! Thanks for the video . So helpful informactions.
Thank you Nick for helping reduce the migration to California. So the Californians can breathe easier in the most congested traffic.
California is becoming a 3rd world state.
Exactly us natives need it
I can't agree more. While I'm not Native. I've been here for several decades. My kids and my grandkids are all Native. This is the state of my choosing, and I'll never leave. I love my adopted state.
I live in San Diego, I will stay here for a long time because it's a nice city.
Crime Is in every city, its getting harder to run from it. All we can do is be careful and pray..smh..🤷🏾♀️
I stepped into a store near the San Bernardino Amazon center and when I walked out a man had opened my trunk and was attempting to steal everything in there. It was daylight with people and traffic all around. Horrible. We live in the mountains near Lake Arrowhead.
What did you do when you saw him in your trunk?
Thankfully, you were ok & hoping this person didn’t try to hurt you! We are all wondering what you did, when you found this person(thief) in your trunk??? OMGOSH!!!! What a frightening thing that must have been. Hopefully he didn’t try to harm you & you didn’t have anything valuable in your trunk! Unbelievable! Feel bad for you, for it must have been so scary! ♥️
My brother ( in SB) dropped his keys going into a business and 30 seconds later his car was gone!
Boyz in the hood come jackin yo caa......
Try Oregon if he thinks CA is dangerous. The cars aren't stopping at cross walks, homeless are raping women, addicts approach you in Southern Oregon, Ashland people are running stop signs, drunk weekly at Lithia Park, knocking out our signs, breaking in. Medford homeless EVERYWHERE. I was hit by cars driving and walking.
A friend of a friend of mine had a house in San Francisco. He re-converted the garage back from an extra bedroom and parked/locked his car safely inside the garage. He also installed a fence and gates, and a mail slot in the garage door. He also put in an intercom on the gate.
The local homeless would buzz his intercom and scream “Let us into your garage! We wanna break into your car!”. They also tried to break into his garage, but he would bring the hose through his living room and spray water out the window onto them, driving them away. He sold the house and moved away after that. This was just before things started going really bad.
Omg that's like some movie! I can't believe it's gotten that bad!
Just saw San Francisco in the news and it was about a glass shortages for vehicles. The car break-ins are so out of control, the vehicle window replacement companies are having a tough time finding enough replacement glass windows to make the repairs. At the nicer hotels the staff will ask their tourist guests if they are planning to use a rental vehicle. They have been recommending to use transportation services such as Uber or taxis to their tourist destinations. Even in broad daylight you can witness car break-ins at all the popular tourist spots. Tony Bennett's iconic song for San Francisco no longer applies due to the eyesore and crimes that plague this once beautiful city. Most of the cities east of San Francisco are also infested with crimes
Thank-you Leroy for the information on San Francisco! OMGOSH! It is so hard to believe how bad it is but let me tell you, crime seems to be increasing everywhere lately! Pretty scary. You are so right though, Tony Bennett’s song 🎶 sadly doesn’t seem to apply anymore. It is good to know this in case anyone is thinking of visiting San Francisco this summer or going there on business. If they anticipate renting a car 🚗, it is good for them to be forewarned about car break in’s! Thanks again for telling us what you saw in the news! Take Care Leroy!😁
I worked at the Legion of Honor and the de Young Museums (probably the museums he was talking about in the video,) and we had big electronic billboards, and 3x5 cards that we had sitting on the front desk for every guest telling them to NOT LEAVE ANYTHING OF VALUE in their cars, that it was a high theft area. Inevitably there’d be someone crying and glass everywhere in the parking lot several times a day. Police patrolled, but until they start prosecuting these crimes, nobody was gonna stop. My husband and I have had our car windows smashed constantly when living by Golden Gate Park. And our car stolen a bunch of times when living by Twin Peaks. They target tourist because they assume they’ll have valuable stuff in their cars. It’s why I never want to live in a touristy area again. A famous author was murdered for his camera while standing out in front of his own house in the Haight Ashbury district a couple of years ago taking photos. They’ll smash your head and grab the camera from off of your body.
@@karenstrycharz1499 thanks for being a Karen, Karen. I have lived in San Francisco for 31 years and can attest that property crime is at an all time high in San Francisco for two reasons - we passed Prop 47 decriminalizing property crime, and then we voted in an extremely left wing DA who doesn’t believe in prosecuting crimes. I voted for both of those things, but now regret it as I have seen things have gotten far worse in this city since doing so. Thanks for your reply and concern for this city that you obviously don’t have any actual knowledge of.
The new words..."where little cable cars, are blow up half way to the stars, and the police never go outside, I left my wallet, In San Fransico, it was taken By a gang member, after assulting me...Please give me a ride, before I die..in San Fransico.
I've actually heard that the absolute SAFEST city in California is Avalon, for obvious reasons, riff raff and gangbang trash can't exactly drive or walk there to depreciate it.
Boring though, because there's nothing but souvenir shops and little restaurants that only serve hamburgers and french fries. And imagine having to ride a boat every time you want to go to a department store, hardware store, grocery store that has everything, or to see a specialist doctor or dentist. And in the winter you can't even swim.
Avalon isn’t really a city; it is too small. By your criteria, you could rank Mountain Pass (pop. 30) as safest because everyone knows everyone else and there is no one for the criminals to victimize
Tiny little cult area. The only sane people i met were the CHP there. They are the glue that holds the whole place together.
Piss anyone off there and your pad gets ransacked and nobody saw a damn thing. Some of the business owners there are above the laws of humanity.
Catalina😊
@@carolhutchinson7763 I'd take boring over baboons any day.
I grew up in Stockton a sesspool of drugs and poisonous predators most discusting place imaginable!want some advice ? Cut your losses sell your home take your family and get out as soon as you can! It's the closest to cuba that there is! " SO LEAVE WHILE YOU CAN"🙏❤😔
I was just there last week it's troubled
I stopped in Stockton to spend the night at a Motel 6 after a long day of driving. That was one scary experience. Will never do that again.
Thank you for the video!
I grew up in San Bernardino too! It was a very rough place to live! I can’t tell you how many times my homes were broken into and I had two cars completely stripped. Your video clip showed Alfredo’s Italian restaurant though which was my all time favorite. Glad to be out of there though
Yep. I was ostracized, growing up in that area, for two reasons: I refused to participate in crime, and I quit doing any and all drugs. It was as if I was the criminal. Moved to a peaceful conservative town in another state when I turned 17 (parents allowed me to, they kept touch with me), my life was 20X better immediately.
Alfredo’s goes insane dude favorite Italian food place by far
I lived on 10th & Sierra Way. I know what you're talking about. Owned the Subway shop that was on Waterman & 9th by the old Kmart.
Yep, lived at 19th and E. Crack den bust within half a block from the high school...ghetto birds and everything. Just your normal Tuesday.
That cheap rent and buying price attracts a lot of people. Just saw a home online yesterday in San Bernardino for a dirt cheap price of a condo over here in azusa and I couldn’t believe it.
Im so glad i moved. I'm a san Bernardino native. 3 home invasion robbery attempts was enough.
I grew up in moreno valley. I'll never move back there. San Bernardino and Moreno Valley have the same issues. I mean they are next to each other
So, WHY were not 'just' one, but THREE home invasion attempts made? What made your location so desirable? Was it the same group? And, what defeated the attempts? (A nice Smith & Wesson 686 ?)
Around 1980, I drove down one of Oakland's boulevards at night. At an intersection of two of the widest, and busiest streets were about a dozen scantily dressed 'night girls' packed in a circle. I think they served as a collective lookout for cops. I guess the 'coast was clear', because when the light turned green, the circle opened up to reveal a topless woman in the center. I guess that's one way to advertise.
I live in San Bernardino, was raised here earned a few degrees had plenty of chances to leave but then decided to stay and work for a non profit who tries to change the lives of many who live here. We're all not bad but it does build character . Wish our city cared more, but then some of us never give up trying!! 💕
Same here, I wish they did.
Damn gaby your pretty lol,,,
Place is a dump now needles everywhere
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Thank-you for such an interesting & in depth video! You do such an extraordinary job on this video & thank-you for the information, especially if someone was thinking of moving to California, thinking that living in a small town would be safer & less expensive to live in, than a big city! Really found all the facts presented so engrossing & very interesting. Thanks again for this video/blog! I definitely subscribed ( kept my interest the whole time, might I add!)! ♥️
@@ruthaakamonica5602 What’s making it better and better I’m many generations from here.
Can't believe Stockton is on the #3 list .
I live in Roseville, NorCal area. I am blessed because there is very little crime and it is ranked the 8th best city of its size in the country. I am lower middle class but somehow manage to survive here by the grace of God. I have lived up and down the state and it saddens me what has become of my beautiful state. But I have seen the best of California, and for that I am grateful.
Roseville and Folsom is very nice, I always go to the 99 cent store in Roseville , we have one here in Sacramento around the corner from where I live, it is so ghetto and dangerous, I rather drive 20 minutes to roseville
@@pembebulut2781 south Sacramento, 2 months ago a homeless guy decided to set up his blankets and things on my front porch, We saw him thru our ring app at 1:30-am , I immediately called the police , they told him you need to get up because this is private property , homeless man said I wanna sleep, could you call the ambulance I can’t breathe, police said I am not calling the ambulance, I see you breathing perfectly, please get up because I don’t want to drag you. I think police knows he is a regular and said I just saw you an hour ago running on fruit ridge, he said get up and we could talk on the sidewalk
@@pembebulut2781 antelope is nice too
I live in San Diego, it's fine here.
SF D.A loves to drop charges against criminals. He’s being recalled now.
He actually is? Thats awesome to hear
They don't have enough room in jail out in San Francisco most of the people have mental health problems so they turn them lose.
We hope. I doubt it will actually happen though, because people are idiots. And changing the DA alone isn't going to solve the crime problem in SF.
Love your videos!
You've done so many here in the U.S.
Was wondering if you'd ever do videos in cities of Canada?
I like Nick Johnson's videos! Informative! Humorous too!
Thank you good information ..
So nice of you
Great vlog thanks for sharing
Glad to know the Laguna Niguel area is still safe. I lived there in the 80s along with Huntington Beach, Alameda, and Monterey
Just way the heck more crowded.
@@beth6252 i bet! When we move there everything was just being developed and it was still empty hills and canyons. Used to live off Golden Lantern
Most of Orange and San Diego counties are still pretty safe-much safer than CA and US averages-even though both have grown a lot since you left
@@beth6252 And in OC and SD, very expensive. My zip code is 926XX, and the median price of a single family home just broke $1 million
@@devilsadvocacy that's so great to know. Thank you!! I feel lucky to have spent a lot of my adolescence in those areas.
Thanks for your information. I was planning on using my motorhome to travel through California in May but you definitely changed my mind.
If you are an elderly woman, please carry mace or some form of self-defense if you travel to California alone. I'm on pins and needles about my elderly mother going to the grocery store alone nowadays because thieves' prey of the vulnerable here (I'm in Sacramento).
Don't be afraid to come to our beautiful state just because of a youtube video. The world is a dangerous place. California has the best of everything. You can be surfing in the ocean and two hours later be skiing down a mountain. We have deserts and forests,Mountains and sea shores and everything in between. We have more diversity in everything than anyplace else in the world. If you want to hang around the cities and get mugged that is also available too. The Tenderloin area in San Francisco has the largest open air heroin exchange in the Northern Hemisphere if not the world. We also have Six Flags in Northern Cal and Magic Mountain in the south.
Just know which safe cities to land in & safe hotels or trailer areas to stay in. We have plenty of beautiful places to see.
This video only focuses on the cities to avoid.
Sadly, I am not surprised that the Bay Area is so highly represented on this list.
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I was born and raised in Oakland California.
I went through all the Oakland Public schools.
At my high school Oakland Tech, I learned to type and swim. No higher math, no musical instrument instruction, no foreign language (the hallmarks of a good education).
The day after I retired, I fled the Bay Area for Oregon.
Fellow Bulldog
@@theburningredbeacon9625 I graduated in 1973 Go Bulldogs😅
@@magentasunshine7811 1998 here.
I grew up in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley and can confirm it sucks. Even the cops can be sketchy. A cop asked me out at 11:30 at night in a grocery store. It was weird.
My dad's car was stolen. My brother got shot at. I just had to leave. So now I live in Utah where there's virtually no crime.
@@ajl2232 pretty bad sarcasm 🥴
The cop basically asked you the get the f#$@ out.
But, as I understand it, the drug problem is off the hook.
Violent crime in Utah is low, but Salt Lake has some of the highest property crime rates in the nation. Lots of drugs = lots of theft
Hey Mr. Johnson, you mentioned San Bernardino!! Does the intersection of Baseline and D Street ring a bell!??!
I grew up in San Francisco 5th generation. I miss it so much. It's just way too expensive now and has changed
I was looking on Megan’s law and out of curiosity I looked at bar stow and it’s crazy how many offenders live in that tiny city
Just saw a video on TH-cam about how 5 Walgreens stores are closing in San Francisco due to high shoplifting, it's pretty bad.
When bad citizens are not hold responsible for their crimes those crimes get to increase more and more!! Thank your democrat run government!!
@@Soapboxstomper 😂😅funny he was only a president for four years and California has been run for democrats for decades!! I guess you have amnesia like your president Biden!!
@@michaelwhite2823 blame Jeff Bezos for that!!
@@nap4115 It shows how bad the political system has become that a senile candidate wins in 2020 mainly because the other candidate is morally depraved, vindictive, and acts like he is part of a crime syndicate. (Not surprising, given his first attorney was Roy Cohn, who also represented mob bosses, and was disbarred for unethical practice.
SB is my hometown as well. Every time I go back, it saddens me. The height of the Carousel Mall was a long time ago. Just about everything worth a damn has closed down. At least the food spots are still good, though.
Yeah not much development in there.
You are right.
I agreed for your honesty.
Thank you 😊
I lived in Oakland in the 60's and early 70's it was bad then
At least they produced the A’s and Raider’s. But that’s about it.
I have been to more than a few of the cities on this list during my travels over the years. Nice to see the entire Mappy family in the video this time. Oakland, Stockton and San Bernardino are the cities that I really did not want to spend time in. By the way, I read online yesterday that a church Pastor was shot and killed leaving church and going to his car in Compton.
I just recently moved from Stockton to a whole different state. I can’t even tell you how my mental health has drastically changed for the better since leaving.
It is REALLY SAD!! We left Illinois in 1979, moved to Oakland, it was REALLY nice back then, but we later moved to Stockton in the Western Ranch area and bought a house. The area started to go "down", so retired and moved to Arizona
OMGOSH!!!😳Pretty scary!
@@mieeshac6545 Franklin, Stagg or Edison?
San bernadino is beautiful with no gangs what are you talking about haha
I love you channel..just subbed..born and raised in SoCal/moved to Central Cali in the 1990s..
Like Fresno?
@@NickJohnson Tracy
You had me from the beginning. Funny AF
I thought Bakersfield and Kern County would be in your list! Back in the seventies and eighties my mother was a social worker at Kern Medical Center. Violent crime was so rampant, young physicians who wanted specialize in trauma medicine did residencies there! While in college I had a part time job as a welfare worker. Part of my job involved home visits. One of my clients lived in such an awful part of town I had a police escort go with me into the apartment and another officer stayed with the car! Maybe Bakersfield has cleaned up its act. I now live 30 miles outside Seattle!
Bakersfield is still terrible. I'm surprised it wasn't on the list. Glad you got out!
That visit must have been in the Lakeview area. Maybe Union.
I lived there in the late 80s. Terribly hot summers but I made a lot of great friends and I loved the country vibe.
I lived in Bakersfield a few years ago. It's a dump. Fortunately i live near the Canadian border. The jobs here are plentiful.
@@baconbap Oildale, Greenfield, East Bakersfield by Kern Medical, Edison, Fairfax, South Bakersfield to name a few not only Lakeview and Union Avenue are undesirable places to visit, work or live.... yet always mentioned. Crime seems to have gone up with more people from larger cities moving into the area and also since the pandemic.... seems police/ sheriffs take little interest in protecting and serving anymore... city and county officials need to do a better job to reduce crime in the city and county way out of control.
Great commentary as usual, Nick! I totally use these videos to determine which cities to visit (and which to stay away from) during my travels!
I worked in oakland California for AT&T.and I can tell you not only did I carry a firearm while working there I found that I wasn't the only employee packing.and the union president said what they don't know won't hurt.just don't get caught.also found that an employee stabbed someone to death that was breaking into their car,self defense but never solved.because he left them bleeding out,and he went home.police really didn't care because we all got questioned but nobody said anything,case closed,
Good job on the documentary.
Like & thanks for your info.
I've lived in Pomona and Desert Hot Springs. I'm surprised they didn't make this list!
Agreed !!!!!!! Beaumont and Banning too need shout outs !!!
Nick is an officer of the law, and you will respect his authoritah!
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Cops in California actually tell citizens to beat up/hurt burglars, taggers,trespassers and anyone who poses a threat to your property, hurt them badly. Cops say it all time that they wouldn't follow up on a police report if criminal trys go after property owner. What I'm told by em "its not what we know, but what we can prove" always ensure evidence points towards them as aggressor. Stories here of burglars being shot at the doorway and pulled in before the body hits the porch so it can be self defense.
Nick is a Repugnitant Chumpster.
No lies told here 🤣 Great video brother 👍🏾
Thank you Orange County DA(Irvine/Laguna Areas/Newport) and Riverside County DA (Eastvale/Temecula/Murrieta) 🚀🚀🚀 Your cities are among the safest in the state and USA. Irvine special props for being the safest and cleanest big city not only in California but the entire USA 🇺🇸
It has nothing to do with the DA really. But moreso the Conservative/ Libertarian politics, and general wealth and economy which exists there. It's a lot like Silicon Valley (in terms of economy and wealth, - not so much the politics).
@@Sovereign_Citizen_LEO True but also The RC (Riverside County) and OC (Orange County) DAs are conservative/libertarian also they have a zero tolerance for thefts.
What does DA stand for?
@@jbone79 District attorney. They are responsible for prosecuting criminals.
Wrong. Where I live in Northern CA is safer than where you are. Look it up; I live in Roseville.
Other dangerous places in SoCal are Palmdale & Lancaster, South LA , Compton (going back to bad), East LA, Huntington Park, Wilmington, parts of Anaheim (aka AnaCrime), Hemet, Desert Hot Springs.
Goodness, has Palmdale gotten that bad? I used to live there back in the early 70's. It was a cool little burg. We used to be able to dune buggy from there to Littlerock and never see a soul. Beck then, most of the people worked for either the Air Force or Lockheed when they were building the L-1011. Sorry to see it turn into a hell hole. But, I could care less about Lancaster, my ex-hubby lives there and he and his trophy wife can have it. 😆 🤣 😂
Palmdale is alright for me.
San diego
@@lindabriggs5118 Yeah, there's a McDonalds in Palmdale with a security guard. A few months back another guard got shot and it was all over the news. >> A McDonalds
Don't forget Riverside, Hemet, Pomona, Downey, Norwalk.
No! Don’t take my In-N-Out!!! 😭 And no not my Duran Duran CD!! Nick! I love the cop get-up!!! I knew San Bernardino would make the list! Surprised it wasn’t #1 though. The north end of San Bernardino is getting bad too. When I used to live in the north end, it was pretty nice still…but it started changing and I don’t think it’s that great.
In-N-Out, one of the best burger places around. Always eat at one when I’m in the LA area!
I disagree, I am from LA, SoCal, and In N Out is garbage in my opinion, respectfully. Not worth the hype, In N Out is so mediocre
Looking great Tanya! Sorry that was creepy
Also cataltic convertor😭😂😠
@@John-kx3ng No burger is good enough to spend 30 minutes in the drive thru.
There are no native Americans from SanFrancisco left alive. A living born in San Francisco native is also hard to find; these places along the warm bay attract people from all over the country and the diversity of industries allows for a strong economy that attracts people from all over the world. So its very competitive to stay here.
Lmao gentrification
I love this video! I grew up here and we will now be leaving.. even though we live in a beach community in South OC.
Plugging my hometown here. When you consider cost of living, Fresno really is a great place to live. People love to make fun of us but the fact is, crime is no where near as bad as these other places. That’s why people who work remotely are flocking here from the Bay Area. It’s driving up home prices as a result.
I was just there a week ago. Hated it honestly.
@@NickJohnson It's a great place to live, not a great place to visit. love your work man.
My brother moved to Fresno from LA for work about 10 years ago. He's my happier.
I'd rather be in jail than live there 🤣
If they are trying to steal your cat, just lower the jack on them and leave.
Cat? You mean "car"??? Lol😄
I’ve been to almost every single city on this list, and I can tell you that Oakland, Stockton, and San Bernardino are the worst cities I’ve ever been to in California. Compton should’ve also been mentioned because it’s kind of like Oakland: run down, graffitied, crime-ridden, etc.
San Bernardio is nice compared to Wilmington Harbor area Los Angeles
I love Oakland, I stay away from San Francisco.
I have very fond memories growing up in Lakewood, however I did get into fights every day after school, and the local hoodlums gave my poor dad hell. He had barbed wire on the roof just to try and deter the hoodlums from jumping house to house every night. My next-door neighbors were heroin dealers among even worse things. What a sham to have such a beautiful state be so crime ridden.
Lakewood is a white neighborhood 👍🏻beautiful city
I feel you man, San Bernardino is also my hometown. 😆
Nick from there also.
Me too!
I lived in Captiola for many years - it's wonderful. Meanwhile, Santa Cruz 5 miles up the road is Hell's long drop latrine.
I bet you don’t come to Watsonville either 🤢
I’m from SF/Oakland and now live in Stockton, Ca. My husband and I work, raised our daughter pretty good. In my opinion it’s no better than in other city. You make life your best life where you live.
@11:40 I’m from bakersfield and thanks for mentioning us!!! Kinda felt out !!
Bako!
Before we moved there used to be three (3) patrol cars, one K9 unit, one swat SUV all for one (1) lousy Walmart on weekends. Also the sheriff office sent an email and twit every night telling homeowners to park in their garage or their car windows will likely be smashed in. Screw it, we went the gated old folks community route.
I See You Were Riding Through My Old Neighborhood Of North ( Narf ) Richmond. Back In The 90's
North Richmond Was Known As Dodge City💯
I live right next to Richmond and North Richmond is especially iffy. My friend had been robbed multiple times in her own home until she moved more up Hilltop. My brother’s car was jacked and found abandoned in Vallejo without its battery and sadly, his sweater. Ask anyone that lives in or around Richmond and they’ll tell you their own stories or stories they’ve heard. My parent’s car were literally broken into multiple times without them taking anything. They wrote “mofo” on the screens piled with dust and just created a mess without taking anything- confusing but funny. I also take the Richmond/Beryessa Bart route and the stops around Oakland-Coliseum always brings the scary looking people. Drug addicts that pace back and forth and overall unpredictable.
Speaking about Shoplifting - have you heard the Walgreens on Market/4th Streets in SF is closing soon bc of that, inside you’ll notice some shelves or about 30% are empty maybe because there’s no more deliveries going on.
I'm grateful to live in New England.
Also, if you go up past Sac and the Bay, in the northern woodsy and mountainous regions of the state, you will be horrified by the sheer number of posters for missing women, most often indigenous women and WOC.
@@ruthaakamonica5602 Nice, but thoroughly baseless conspiracy theory.
@@ruthaakamonica5602 wtf-
I literally did not know how ghetto signal hill was until I almost got kidnapped
In my admittedly limited experience, I find Barstow gets a little better year by year. In the early 2000's it was America's toilet, but nowadays it's more like Americas porta potty that gets an occasional daily clean.
Agreed
I live in Barstow it's not that bad compared to where I'm from... I'm from east side Long Beach
@@NickJohnson I live in Barstow and I'm from Long Beach Barstow ain't that bad.. you didn't do your research because any one from high desert would've have told you that Victorville is way more dangerous than Barstow..
Is that the place on that mindblowingly boring drive from LA to Las Vegas?
@@paulwild3676 yup.. I live in the halfway point to Vegas...
Knowing Pelosi and Harris seems their state is a reflection of their community service. Thanks for sharing Nick n Sage 👍🇺🇲
Shutup goofy your orange Cheeto is just as crusty
@@fentybreezy6266 Nah. Ironically Cheeto did more for minorities living in Cali than Obama, who ironically was worse for blacks than even Clinton.
@Alejandro brunner Yup. It's called chiraq for a reason. Ironically they don't think black lives matter.
@@fentybreezy6266 hahaha triggered.
I’m from Moreno Valley which is by San Bernardino. I got kidnapped there and ALMOST kidnapped again (separate situations) and I wasn’t living there anymore at the time. I’m 24, this happened when I was like 20? Anyways i guess it’s safe to say my family moved away for a reason. They won’t even let me go to Moreno Valley anymore and I’m grown, but I wouldn’t anyways.
MoVal has been rough since it was Sunnymead. But when the Air Force base closed, it became a war zone.
Your commentating is awesome!
Funny thing I’m from California, never been to Frisco.
Your not missing anything now.
Don't go. Tourists are avoiding The City, conventions moved to other places, restaurants and nightclubs are shutting down, most of the Financial District executives work from home now, the homeless and criminals are treated better than the residents, and Kate Steinle is dead. SF used to have a vibe you could feel even while driving on the Skyway. Now it feels dead. People are moving out as quickly as they can. This is what happens when you put lunatics into City Hall.
Used to be a beautiful and fun place. I wouldn't go now.
I remember driving to Emeryville to pick up my mom from work. Me and my boyfriend at the time stopped at a burger place to get food, and while we were waiting, two tweakers started fighting each other in the restaurant. One pulled out a pocket knife and the other picked up a chair. The one tweaker put the chair down and grabbed a broom instead, and threw it at the other tweak. They started screaming and running all over the place. Everyone in the restaurant were bursting out laughing, all me and my ex could do was just sit there shocked.
Berkeley here: this city has gone down dramatically in the 18 years I've lived here and there are no signs of it getting any better, only worse because of it being sandwiched between Oakland and Richmond. Strongarm robberies of people's laptops are a regular occurrence in the coffeeshops, day or night and the police response is next to useless - they're too busy doing whatever it is that they do to address crime problems in a meaningful way. The streets are decrepit and nearly undriveable in some places, with so many homeless encampments with feces and vomit on the sidewalks to make your walk a little more interesting. The homeless are often aggressive, sometimes coming into places of business, like restaurants and cafes, to hit people up for money or to destroy the restrooms with excrement or graffiti.
So sad to hear this.. i loved to visit Berkeley just a few years ago.
I thought of Stockton as soon as I read the title. I was in Stockton only once and that was only a drive thru, but Stockton has a bad reputation. I live in Orange County and had no problem, but that was back in the Fifties and Sixties. Pomona was the place to avoid.
Pomona is still a place to avoid...pomona & SB
Shout out CharlieBo313 ... Dude has made some interesting videos.
Ikr..I love his content
And he does it without shitting on the people that live there js
San Bernardino is So bad that the homeless kicked the ducks out of Secombe Lake!
Lmao, I use to feed those ducks
I just knew Stockton would be here somewhere. I hate that we’re up there in
crime. The only positive that I can see is that when you experience a harder life here, everywhere else can feel so much safer..it was definitely a culture shock for me, leaving the state and seeing others feel “unsafe” in certain areas that I would be perfectly fine in.
When I lived there it wasn’t that bad just stay away from certain spots and I was just there 2 weeks ago…he lives in the Westin ranch area very close to Manteca drive wise and it’s a chill spot…I used to live in San Jose before stocking and finally settled in Madera and it’s where I raised my 4 kids…and isn’t that bad..
Love this guy's videos, I'm from Scotland, I've only ever seen the nice side of California.
Debbie there's a lot more of that on here too 🏴
@@NickJohnson I've watched all your videos ☺️
I'm here in California, and there are still nice people and nice places.
Yes there are beautiful and relatively inexpensive homes in the foothills on the north side of San Bernardino. I was tempted to purchase one. Unfortunately just a couple of blocks south of there it's pretty much a ghetto. Pretty sad.
Looking out over desert and great climate only hanging here for the low property taxes 1500.00 a year is cheap.
I'm from Southern California, living in Kern County about an hour and a half from LA. I can definitely confirm the state of a lot of these places. You have to be careful and mindful, depending on the area you find yourself in.
I live in kern county to
I use to live in kern county. Born and raised.
I grew up in Oakland back in the 50’s. It really makes me sad to see what it has become. I had a wonderful childhood there.
Very good video
Another great video Nick. Thank you. I had no idea Calif had sunk this low. I would not visit Calif, EVER
It's terrible
There are many nice cities in California. I live in one and I have walked my dog at 3 and 4 in the morning many times with no problem. There are tons of stores and restaurants here with a big outdoor shopping center and everything is modern and spotless. I have a nice apartment with a front yard and garden and nobody has tried to break in during the 15 years I've been here. All the surrounding cities to this one are decent too. I'm sorry I can't say where I live; too many nuts on the Internet.
My wife is from CA. Every time we go back to visit, it's more and more like a 3rd world country. A small group of wealthy people surrounded by lots of poverty. Democrats have wiped out the middle class in that state.
That is a badly distorted perspective. The loss of the middle class has been a NATIONAL issue for several decades, and is not at all limited to California or democratic states.
Yeah what ever! It started with republicans president Reagan started the trickle down effect in the 80’s so don’t blame democrats educate yourself.
@@noneya7297 blame whomever you'd like for the past. The fact is that the Democrats have been in charge of California for over 20 years, and it's been getting worse. If you'd like to educate yourself, start by accepting facts, coming to your own conclusions, and not repeating the leftist indoctrination points that someone uploaded into your brain.
@@bmjv77& what about the red states & they shit they do to minority communities? Closing areas where people of color can vote & closing hospitals & school In minority communities. The republicans ain’t doing any better buddy. 😂
And how I know these things I lived in Tennessee & Alabama shit states 😂
What about San Clemente or Capistrano Beach? How much is the rent there?
My father was born in San Francisco 1919. He said: before World War II a man or a woman could’ve travel any part of the city at three in the morning no problem