Columbus Ohio, Crime Ridden Craphole

• LJ

  

  Prescott;461599 wrote:I don't think Gahanna or Westerville has any neighborhoods that are equivalent to the Linden area or the east side from Parsons to Nelson Rd.

  
  economically there are some neighborhoods as bad, the crime has never taken off. Why are you being an apologist for the problems in Columbus? I don't get it? 75 murders so far this year. Oh, and let's not forget the 3rd largest helicopter unit in the country that costs $3.6 million yearly to operate, that seems to be helping a lot.
• derek bomar

  

  LJ;461309 wrote:Why would there be a breakdown within the city, it's all the city of Columbus. You don't see these problems in Bexley, UA, Westerville, Gahanna, etc.

  
  because my point is that you're lumping in certain nicer areas of Cbus in with shitty ones (hilltop, east side, etc...). My point is that the bad is really bad, but the nicer areas (where crime does in fact happen also...who knew?) shouldn't be lumped in with them. The bad areas need fixed, but you can't just say "oh well so and so area once had someone get robbed so it must be a bad area". With that logic, someone could be robbed in UA and I could then say it's a warzone - we all know that ain't true.
• Prescott

  economically there are some neighborhoods as bad, the crime has never taken off.

  No, there isn't. There might be a few families in Westerville and Gahanna that are economically the same, but they don't make up a neighborhood.
  

  Why are you being an apologist for the problems in Columbus?

  I am not apologizing for Columbus. I am defending the CPD. Not everything can be solved by more policeman and more guns.
• LJ

  

  Prescott;461670 wrote:No, there isn't. There might be a few families in Westerville and Gahanna that are economically the same, but they don't make up a neighborhood.

  There most certainly are. Namely neighborhoods off of Dempsey and the trailer park. and it Gahanna the neighborhoods are off of stygler near 270.
• LJ

  

  Prescott;461670 wrote:
  I am not apologizing for Columbus. I am defending the CPD. Not everything can be solved by more policeman and more guns.

  
  I'm not bashing CPD, they have no control over many things. It's the people in charge. So Columbus gets a 25% tax increase, yet the police were redistricted and they are cutting cops. what sense does that make?
• Prescott

  and the trailer park.

  Some double wides are pretty nice and would be better living conditions than many houses in Columbus' poorer neighborhoods.
  
  Obviously, we are going to have to agree to disagree because we don't see things the same way.
• LJ

  

  Prescott;461687 wrote:Some double wides are pretty nice and would be better living conditions than many houses in Columbus' poorer neighborhoods.
  
  Obviously, we are going to have to agree to disagree because we don't see things the same way.

  
  that trailer park is nowhere near nice. It's not that we don't see things the same way, it's that you don't know what you are talking about when it comes to some of these areas. That trailer park is a ghetto.
• Prescott

  That trailer park is a ghetto.

  Yet, still not comparable to neighborhood in Linden, the bottoms, the near eastside, or the Parsons Ave. corridor.
  
  Is it a ghetto like the $360,000 house I referenced in the Eastmoor ghetto?
• LJ

  

  Prescott;461693 wrote:Yet, still not comparable to neighborhood in Linden, the bottoms, the near eastside, or the Parsons Ave. corridor.
  
  Is it a ghetto like the $360,000 house I referenced in the Eastmoor ghetto?

  
  I never said that area was ghetto. Quote that statement please?
  
  It IS that poor. We are talking $10,000 home values. we are talking $250/month rents. We are talking minimum wage and welfare.
• Prescott

  I never said that area was ghetto.

  It is called sarcasm. You said"It(Eastmoor) isn't nice".
  

  It IS that poor. We are talking $10,000 home values. we are talking $250/month rents. We are talking minimum wage and welfare.

  I am not sure where you are getting your numbers, but it doesn't matter. You are talking about (1) little trailer park and comparing to areas that covers 25-30 square miles.
• LJ

  

  Prescott;461720 wrote:It is called sarcasm. You said"It(Eastmoor) isn't nice".
  
  
  I am not sure where you are getting your numbers, but it doesn't matter. You are talking about (1) little trailer park and comparing to areas that covers 25-30 square miles.

  
  By knowing people who live there, that's where I got my numbers.
• Prescott

  By knowing people who live there, that's where I got my numbers.

  That is called heresay.
  
  I knew a guy, who knew a guy, who saw another guy steal some gas from the gas station at Broad and James.
• LJ

  

  Prescott;461803 wrote:That is called heresay.

  
  How about the listing with the super nice double wide for $22,500?
• Prescott

  How about the listing with the super nice double wide for $22,500?

  I got you a deal. Here is a brand new double wide with 3 bedrooms, one bath, and central air. Enjoy?
  
  http://www.mhbo.com/mobile_listings/detail/22148
• LJ

  

  Prescott;461823 wrote:I got you a deal. Here is a brand new double wide with 3 bedrooms, one bath, and central air. Enjoy?
  
  http://www.mhbo.com/mobile_listings/detail/22148

  
  so you prove my point for me? I don't get it. there are for sale listings in that trailer park for very nice double wides for $22,500 and down. A nice double wide isn;t the norm in that trailer park though. I can tell you that from my own two eyes. this is one of those situations where if you haven't been there, or even know where i am talking about, you shouldn't comment.
• Prescott

  I am not sure where you are getting your numbers, but it doesn't matter. You are talking about (1) little trailer park and comparing it to areas that covers 25-30 square miles.
• LJ

  

  Prescott;461859 wrote:I am not sure where you are getting your numbers, but it doesn't matter. You are talking about (1) little trailer park and comparing it to areas that covers 25-30 square miles.

  
  And you are trying to say that westerville and gahanna don't have neighborhoods that poor, which is false. I still don't understand your apathy towards the crime problem in columbus? It almost seems as if you are excusing it because of people being poor. It;s obvious that there is a problem in this city, yet you want to ignore it. This is not contained to 1 small section of the city, it is spreading into a city wide problem. There are many suburbs that border bad areas, but they do not have these problems filtering into their cities. You claim it has nothing to do with the police, but many of these suburbs have their "lower income" areas bordering the bad areas of Columbus (Hilliard, Westerville, Gahanna) and they don't have these crimes filtering in. If it was such a socioeconomic issue, those areas would be having problems too, you wouldn't see such a dramatic dropoff. I just don't understand how people are so willing to turn a blind eye to a problem and say "well I just don't go there" or "it's small areas of the city". Take pride in your city and demand something be done. write city hall, vote differently, something, anything.
• Prescott

  You are talking about (1) little trailer park and comparing it to areas that cover 25-30 square miles.
• LJ

  

  Prescott;461965 wrote:You are talking about (1) little trailer park and comparing it to areas that cover 25-30 square miles.

  
  Not in my last post, that trailer park is on the northeast side of Westerville. and it's quite the large trailer park. 200+ residents. But you failed to respond to anything else in my post.
• Prescott

  200+ residents

  Wow!! That is one big neighborhood.
• LJ

  

  Prescott;462048 wrote:Wow!! That is one big neighborhood.

  
  WOW!! Way to dodge everything else I said, once again. Tell me, why your apathy towards crime?
• BoatShoes

  well regardless of your differences, where did the money from this tax increase go if they're not spending it on police officers?
• LJ

  

  BoatShoes;462059 wrote:well regardless of your differences, where did the money from this tax increase go if they're not spending it on police officers?

  
  ???????
  
  They have somethin like 150 officers retiring in the next 2 years and only plan on hiring 75ish back.
• Prescott

  where did the money from this tax increase go if they're not spending it on police officers?

  That is a good question.
  

  Tell me, why your apathy towards crime?

  I have no apathy towards crime. I happen to think that the reasons behind the crimes are complex and won't be solved by putting a few cruisers on the street.