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re: How do the Ghettos of Houston compare to Louisiana
Posted on 4/22/21 at 7:38 pm to sPecialGuyD
Posted on 4/22/21 at 7:38 pm to sPecialGuyD
Old article from Texas Monthly on one area. The Hou policy gang unit have helped improve things in this area since this was written.
TX Monthly - You Don’t Want to Know What We Do After Dark
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On the streets of southwest Houston, violent gangs are out of control, dealing drugs, robbing businesses, and protecting their turf at all costs. For one longtime member, each day comes down to two simple questions: Will I have to kill? Will I be killed?
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ON A MUGGY LATE-SUMMER AFTERNOON, I am sitting in my rental car in front of an apartment complex in southwest Houston. A young man named Alex, wearing a blue T-shirt and jeans, opens the passenger door and slides into the front seat. “Oh, yeah,” he says, studying the windows. “This will do for a drive-by.”
For a second, I’m not sure what to say. “A drive-by?” I ask. Alex throws back his head and laughs. “Señor El Bolillo, I’m just messing with you.”
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The young males are gangbangers, members of such neighborhood street gangs as the Southwest Cholos, La Primera, La Tercera Crips, Somos Pocos Pero Locos, and Mara Salvatrucha, or, as it’s more popularly known, MS-13. According to Houston police, they are vicious, tattooed career criminals, their lives devoted to razors, knives, and guns. They regularly rob innocent people who live in the apartment complexes. They steal cars and break into businesses. They deal drugs on street corners. And they constantly wage war with one another—fighting, maiming, killing, and dying over their turfs, their colors, and their hand signs, which have special meanings only to them.
TX Monthly - You Don’t Want to Know What We Do After Dark
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Posted on 4/22/21 at 7:44 pm to sPecialGuyD
Me and a friend to went to A&Ms game against Iowa in the 2017 houston regional. Rain pushed the game back a few hours. We left around 11. We were going down the street and all of a sudden, people just started coming off their porches and started to go towards the street we were going down. I went fuuuuuuuuuck this and just turned onto a sidestreet and just jumped on 45 even though it was not the freeway I needed 
Posted on 4/22/21 at 7:52 pm to sPecialGuyD
Houston has two types of ghetto:
1) True ghetto like north Baton Rouge
2) the new Ghetto where they are basically mixed in all over the city in the form of apartments running section 8 housing.
There is almost no such thing as a non-ghetto area in Houston which is why it is starting to suck arse.
1) True ghetto like north Baton Rouge
2) the new Ghetto where they are basically mixed in all over the city in the form of apartments running section 8 housing.
There is almost no such thing as a non-ghetto area in Houston which is why it is starting to suck arse.
Posted on 4/22/21 at 7:56 pm to Geauxgurt
Damn, river oaks is a ghetto?
Posted on 4/22/21 at 7:57 pm to mays
Guessing he was in third ward
Posted on 4/22/21 at 8:00 pm to ShaneTheLegLechler
Houston “hood” residents wouldn’t last a day in Nola or BR hoods. I lived in Houston for 3 years met plenty of people who thought they were hard score hood and would laughed at them.
Posted on 4/22/21 at 8:09 pm to DaBike
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Mara Salvatrucha, or, as it’s more popularly known, MS-13.
El Salvadorian savages
Posted on 4/22/21 at 8:31 pm to mattz1122
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Houston thugs are pansies compared to NOLA thugs
This. Houston thugs are those goofy Riff Raff types. Nola thugs are feral animals. They have that long stare, dead look in their eyes
Posted on 4/22/21 at 8:34 pm to WestCoastAg
Dude probably lives off Westheimer or 1960 or somewhere like that.
Posted on 4/22/21 at 8:41 pm to Willie Stroker
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In those neighborhoods, drug dealers will get in the car with you if you forget to lock your doors. They assume that if you’re white in their neighborhoods you are there to buy drugs.
Good to know. My dealer been frickin around lately.
Posted on 4/22/21 at 8:46 pm to Geauxgurt
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There is almost no such thing as a non-ghetto area in Houston which is why it is starting to suck arse.
You’ve never been to Houston and are actually describing Nola
Posted on 4/22/21 at 8:49 pm to sPecialGuyD
Houston has varying degrees of "hood." There's a few neighborhoods that are working poor ( bad schools and petty crime) that you wouldn't live in and a handful of neighborhoods you wouldn't step foot in.
Posted on 4/22/21 at 9:10 pm to biglego
Actually that's true it's just that alot of the ''hoods'' in houston aren't as rough looking as louisiana but believe me they're everywhere in the city limits. Now Memorial/Piney point village are where all the super rich are all bunched in together on the west side even that isn't far from the ghetto apartments of Spring Branch.
Posted on 4/22/21 at 9:12 pm to Geauxgurt
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) the new Ghetto where they are basically mixed in all over the city in the form of apartments running section 8 housing.
This is happening, unfortunately. The "nice" valero station on the north side of my neighborhood is now the sketchy ghetto valero because the apartments around it that used to be full of quiet retirees are now full of section 8 and god knows what else. It and the Walgreens got looted after Harvey.
Almost an overnight change when the housing authorities drop the ghetto into an island in the middle of an otherwise nice quiet neighborhood.
Posted on 4/22/21 at 9:17 pm to sPecialGuyD
BR thugs will kill you because they don’t fear the BRPD and going to jail.
Posted on 4/22/21 at 9:20 pm to PowerTool
Whats the name of this apartment
Posted on 4/22/21 at 9:23 pm to sPecialGuyD
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Whats the name of this apartment
Could name a few. The ones being discussed in that Texas Monthly article linked up above are in a lovely little section called Gulton. Although that's more of a central American MS13 deal there - but similar dynamic in that those were nice apartments for young professionals and retirees at one time and are now considered fairly dangerous. And just down the street from pretty nice homes in Bellaire.
This post was edited on 4/22/21 at 9:24 pm
Posted on 4/22/21 at 9:27 pm to sPecialGuyD
The Houston ghettos aren’t close to the places you want to be. It’s a non factor for visiting.
Posted on 4/22/21 at 9:29 pm to kciDAtaE
Is the 5th ward no longer crazy like it was in the 80s/90s?
Posted on 4/22/21 at 9:46 pm to 3lsu3
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Is the 5th ward no longer crazy like it was in the 80s/90s?
Gentrification is creeping in some spots. And a lot has gone Mezcan.
Probably still wouldn't want to move into a lot of those streets though.
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