We have all seen the discourse on places like reddit or whatever, where even the positive comments about rough neighborhoods is like "just keep your head up, don't use headphones, pay attention and you will be fine"
Like how much of this is just white people playing out fantasy scenarios in their cop brains? I feel like most of "bad neighborhood" discourse just comes down to 
Like sure there are places where you are more likely to get your place broken into or whatever and systemic racism tends to result in certain outcomes but I feel like most places like this are in the minority, and in fact this must be the case or gentrification wouldn't happen 
It's not always "just" racist hogwash. You've also got fear-of-the-poor hogwash in general.
Ironically some of the most neglected children I've met have been from absurdly wealthy families. It tends to be neglected children who find themselves out hunting for sport in their teenage years. Past that phase it's poverty and drug addiction under prohibition that has motivated more or less every violent criminal I've met that wasn't just victimising their own family.
This sentence has come out of nowhere and bluescreened my cognition Mr Evrart/gun-style
Even in 'bad neighborhoods' it's usually the kids with more of a safety net who fuck with people for no reason, I know that from growing up. Combination of less risk and a need to compensate socially as a kid.