According to an entity called WalletPop, a team under the direction of a Dr. Andrew Schiller, at NeighborhoodScout.com, used FBI data collected from 17,000 law enforcement agencies to determine the Top 25 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in America.Texas only has 2 dangerous neighborhoods on the list. One Texas dangerous neighborhood is in Galveston. The other dangerous Texas neighborhood is in Fort Worth.
Judging from the map it appears the dangerous Fort Worth neighborhood includes the area I bike through when I am on the Trinity Trail heading west from Gateway Park, where I always see homeless people.
Apparently my chances of becoming a victim in Fort Worth's dangerous neighborhood, during the year, are 1 in 10. Those do not sound like very good odds. Maybe I should find a safer place to ride my bike.
That is right over by multiple homeless shelters. I wonder if that makes the numbers inflate? The population at those shelters is very high per square foot and high percent of mentally ill.
ReplyDeleteBut Galveston? Really? Doesn't that seem a little odd?
ReplyDeleteZelda d W, I thought Galveston being on the list was a lot odd and made me wonder about the accurateness of the list. There is not a more dangerous neighborhood in Houston? Or Seattle? Or Tacoma? Or Dallas? Or New York City? Seems very goofy. Multiple neighborhoods of Las Vegas being in the Top 25. That I get. But, none in Reno? Los Angeles?
ReplyDeleteGalveston does have a densely populated ghetto inhabited by poverty-stricken people who live in the federal housing project, which is tucked away on the far east end of the island away from the sea wall and just far enough from the newly revitalized tourist area called the Strand/docks on the other side of the island/sea wall. Remember one of the oldest and last remaining government subsidized apartment complex in FW is located just across the freeway from the homeless shelters and accessable by an overpass. This complex is still there because it's not close enough to the Trinity River---or else the TRV or other profiteering entities would have eminent-domained it long ago.
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