I live in mesquite and I hear sirens every night, multiple times (Dallas: crime)

[DAX_]

Im hearing them now as Im making this thread.

I don't want to seem like I'm being dramatic, but for the past 3 years or so, I have heard sirens pretty much every night in this neighborhood(across the street from west mesquite high school). Tonight alone I've heard them 3 times, and this doesn't include when I was cooking about 2 hours ago and there was 4 gun shots outside of my kitchen Window in thr alley.

This puzzles me because everyone in Dallas tells us mesquite is safe and pleasant Grove is the dangerous area. Tbh I can't tell the difference between either one as both neighborhoods are adjacent to each other. Is all of mesquite like this or just this area

[Fiber Guy]

You answered your own question! PG is the most crime ridden zip code in southeast Big D 75217! I have friends and relatives who policed the area! Lake Highlands (another crime hot spot - Feds working there now) seems docile compared to PG! Get some "white noise" headphones! Keep repeating to yourself the Convention Center's tripe ads - "Dallas is a WORLD CLASS CITY!"

Boeing turned down Big D for it's HQ, just like Amazon will turndown Big D for HQ2! Until Dallas gets serious about equality in opportunity, Big D will always be an also ran nag! Perfect example Ross Perot's new Museum willfully refused to send information flyers to south Dallas residents and remember Perot ran for President but quit after he called African-Americans "you folks" at one of his infamous rally's! Really! Really! WORLD CLASS!!!!

[Soonhun]

Originally Posted by Fiber Guy

You answered your own question! PG is the most crime ridden zip code in southeast Big D 75217! I have friends and relatives who policed the area! Lake Highlands (another crime hot spot - Feds working there now) seems docile compared to PG! Get some "white noise" headphones! Keep repeating to yourself the Convention Center's tripe ads - "Dallas is a WORLD CLASS CITY!"

Boeing turned down Big D for it's HQ, just like Amazon will turndown Big D for HQ2! Until Dallas gets serious about equality in opportunity, Big D will always be an also ran nag! Perfect example Ross Perot's new Museum willfully refused to send information flyers to south Dallas residents and remember Perot ran for President but quit after he called African-Americans "you folks" at one of his infamous rally's! Really! Really! WORLD CLASS!!!!

What is up with your weird tangent? Don't forget, Boeing ended up choosing Chicago, so it's really unlikely "equality in opportunity" was ever a factor, considering how the lack of opportunity is, and has for years, driving out the poorer, and often black, residents of Chicago.

[Treasurevalley92]

Originally Posted by Parhe

What is up with your weird tangent? Don't forget, Boeing ended up choosing Chicago, so it's really unlikely "equality in opportunity" was ever a factor, considering how the lack of opportunity is, and has for years, driving out the poorer, and often black, residents of Chicago.

LOL yeah I was going to say, Chicago has much worse inequality than Dallas.....

[RJ312]

I have not heard much about Mesquite during my time here. I have not run into a lot of people who live in Mesquite in my real world life. I sense that Mesquite is like Garland in the sense that they were nice suburbs from the 1950s-1980s, but have been in decline since the 1980s.

[ChristieP]

That’s Mesquite for you. I grew up there and graduated from NMHS back in the late 1980s when the schools were still good and it was a nice town for families. It’s basically gone down ever since the mid-1990s. Many areas are now really rough, especially south of highway 80.