crime in columbus (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo: violent crime, home, neighborhood)

[streetcreed]

miles south of campus can be rough or can be getting more into the downtown area and not so rough

This is outdated, as the poster said it has been a few years since he lived around the OSU campus, the area south of the OSU campus is the Italian Village/Short North/Victorian Villlage areas and is daily becoming one of the wealthiest sections of all of columbus. The gentrification in that area was still in its early years end of the 90s but now is seeing infill with condos and homes over 800,000.

[cakew]

Thanks to all of you for replying about the areas around OSU. I would appreciate your opinion about the area about 1 to 2 miles north of the campus off of Olen...Rd. Any thought from you all is greatly appreciated!!!
Cakew

[Mez]

This is a diverse area of single family homes as well as College rentals. It depends how far up olentangy river rd you go. Once you pass the hospital you start to have more single family options.

[CantonzOwn]

The poverty rate is pretty low, so I don't get why the crime has sky rocketed lately.

[cakew]

Thanks, Mez. What about the area around the Olentangy Rd. and Ackerman?

[Mez]

Originally Posted by cakew

Thanks, Mez. What about the area around the Olentangy Rd. and Ackerman?

Are you looking for rental choices or Single family homes? What price range of your choice are you looking at?

[sugarfoot]

I live in Columbus, on the northeast side around Dublin-Granville Road. When I was much younger, my high school sweetheart and I lived around Morse Road in our first apartment. It was a good place to live, close to I-71, lots of shopping, good activities with the churches and YMCA on Karl Road. Our high school friends lived mostly in/around Morse Rd also and we had a wonderfully large circle of friends and relatives close by! Then vietnam came along and my husband enlisted in the Air Force and off we went to North Dakota, then Texas, then he left for Nam and I went home to his parents' to live with our first daughter - On Summit St. on the edge of OSU campus. There were good people there too, who had lived in those neighborhoods for MANY years. But conditions began to change drastically when we returned from his Air Force tour in 1970. Husband's life was never the same again. We divorced. I went to work and found an apartment in the Morse Rd. section of northeast Columbus. My car was broken into, there was nothing for them to steal though! The next week ALL my car windows were smashed. I kept moving north to another neighborhood and finally ended up in Westerville! Hardly any crime there during those years my 3rd child was in school.. he graduated from Westerville So. with a 3.9 gpa, AND from North Adult Career Center AT THE SAME TIME, same gpa! That's what kind of difference it made in our lives.

Now, even Westerville isn't much different than the other areas of Columbus. My kids are grown with kids of their own, none of them will let their kids go to Columbus Public schools, most are in Westerville or in "satellite" schools. Columbus is in SUCH a sad shape these days.. I'm a baby-boomer - my kids' generation is the last to have ANY supervision and discipline, I do believe. The kids running in gangs and terrorizing the neighborhoods are the "next generation" - the ones the parents weren't tending to - they were too busy working overtime and leaving their kids to tend to themselves.

It has to begin at home - from when they're babies - it has to rest with their parents to TEACH them to respect people and places and their homes (and others).

I don't think there is a large city ANYWHERE in this country that hasn't been affected by the lack of parenting skills and neglect of children. Columbus has to get tough on the juveniles AND especially on their parents before this can come into any kind of comfort zone for everyone again. Until that happens, there will be no relief and these hot zones will continue to worsen.

If Mayor Coleman had been half as concerned about these problems as he was in getting new sports arenas and businesses downtown, we might have already been on the way. I'm praying the new mayor has better objectives in mind, because NO ONE will want to live here until these crime-ridden areas are in some kind of control again. And by the way - it's NOT just in the poor areas of town (and there are many), it's the rich kids doing the damage just as much as those poor kids!

I'll get off my soapbox now... I've enjoyed reading all your comments, and I can see a bit of truth in everyone's opinions. If we would all just WORK TOGETHER, we could have this mess cleaned up in a year or two! Give that some thought, y'all.. It really DOES take a Village, you know...... thanks for "listening"!

[2006Buckeye]

Originally Posted by cakew

My son will be beginning his grad work at Ohio State in Sept. and this is all really scaring his Mom from Texas!!! Are the apartments within a 5 mile radius around the campus really so crime ridden? Should he reconsider?? Please advise!!!!

I sent you a PM.

[fdbohio]

The City Government can't function effeciently.

[ryw]

Originally Posted by CantonzOwn

The poverty rate is pretty low, so I don't get why the crime has sky rocketed lately.

The reason why is not just poor people commit crimes. I think its ridiculous that when ever a crime is committed, its by a poor person. Some people are poor because they don't always have the means to not be poor. They just are smart enough to hack it at college, their family has always been poor, and they don't know how else to be. Any number of reasons. Poor people are just a decent as the next and its BS that everyone is so quick to blame the poor people. A doctor here just went to prison for molesting two little girls. I don't think he was poor. The mayor of the small town I used to live in was just busted for using crack.

Bottom line, these things happen EVERYWHERE. Its not just poor people who cause or create the problems. Its everyone. People aren't always nice. Bad people do exist. I live in a small town. Its not even considered a town anymore, theirs so few people in it. A man that lived down the road from me, recently stabbed his ex-wife to death, he was on crack when he did it. He made 80,000 a year. Thats definitely not poor. I suggest some of you wise up. Its just a fact of life. People have always killed people, people have drank for as long as their has been alcohol, and people have done drugs for as long as their have been drugs. Its going to cause problems. It doesn't matter where you live anymore because no where is "safe" from these problems. Big city, small city, its there.