How Cincinnati Salvaged the Nation’s Most Dangerous Neighborhood

Yup. "Urban renewal means Negro removal", as James Baldwin once said.

Silicon Valley did this in Whiskey Gulch, the small piece of East Palo Alto that's west of 101. East Palo Alto was Silicon Valley's one black city. In the 1980s, Whiskey Gulch was mostly liquor stores and bars, hence the name. When I lived a few blocks away in Menlo Park, I'd hear automatic weapons fire from there most weekends. (This was the era of the MAC-11 machine pistol, "the gun that made the 80's roar".) It's the only place I've ever seen a fully armored fried chicken outlet; you got your chicken through a turntable in the armor glass.

That problem was solved in 1997 by leveling the entire area and building a Four Seasons hotel and an office building full of lawyers.[1] Amazon AWS recently moved in there. No more black people, and no more gunfire.

[1] http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/cover/1997_Mar_5...

to not take action eventually results in situations like what they fixed here. decades of indifference on the part of the politicians of the city including those representing the district is what put the residents into these positions. Take it this way, the city government and perhaps even the state all had ample opportunity to fix the situation and failed. The bureaucracy of the city likely doomed all effort and far too often activist simply cause an existing situation to persist.

the take away is, people should be demanding city governments do something before areas become so bad that draconian measures are all that is left.

That said, past Liberty or Main certainly has some unsavory characters, but for the most part they're only dangerous to each other. I lived in that area recently and go back frequently. I never felt unsafe in the area that's experienced significant development, even late at night.

I think a lot of people who formed their opinion of OTR back in the race riots would do well to revisit and go in with an open mind. It's quite a wonderful place now

Hey! I think you're on to something here! If we get rid of a race that predominately commits a crime then that crime's rate will decrease.

Now seeing that most white-collar crime is committed by white people, most school shooters are white people, and most serial killers are white people, we could cleanse our cities of these crimes if we cleansed our cities of white people.

You don't support embezzlement, school shootings, and serial killers, do you?