News in Delaware - Crime (Wilmington, Newark: house, company, moving to)

[nsa162]

Originally Posted by Delly

That's great, Laural!! Thank you!

I was working up in North Wilmington last weekend, and noticed a few memorials within a 6 block radius. Memorials, I'm speaking of are, the teddy bears/balloons where someone was killed.

dont they mostly go up when someone dies in a traffic accident?

[Laural]

I'm learning about the crime in Delaware and it's scarey, and I hear about the arguments that certain areas are the culprits and it skews the numbers, but I've been looking at the crime map today and it's freaking scarey. Even in the nice neighborhoods there is crime EVERYWHERE. Car thefts, burglary, larcerny, murders. I was looking at the golf course community in Back Creek in Middletown even they have problems. We were looking at New Castle City and Bear, no way am I living there now. Since most of these communities have HOA's they should hire securites guards or make it a gated community, or have neighorhood watch. What are the police doing? What are the judges doing do they just slap the criminal on the wrist and let them go? I wouldn't think this should be that hard, Delaware doesn't have the population that these other states you would thing they could do some better enforcement. Grrr... I don't even live there yet and I'm already getting mad.

[wilman]

Well there are not enough cops in the City of Wilmington. Wilmington has a population of 70,000 plus people and only about 120 City cops I really don't think 120 cops can police 70,000 people. And New Castle county police do not protrol the City they ride outside the City limits, like Elsmere, Newport, Claymont, they only go in the City when there is a murder. But I am upset that there has been a murder every week since the new year.

[Laural]

Let's leave out Wilmington, we all know that is a problem area, it just surprised me that most of delaware has a problem.

[wilman]

OK we can leave Wilmington out. But other cities are probably bad because Kent and Sussex county don't have to many jobs to offer as New Castle county. So people fell the need to steal and rob to support their family, because they don't want to Drive to Ncco to work. But you can't leave Wilminton out, when along with certin parts of Newark make up for some of these numbers to put Delaware at #7.

[Laural]

See I was a believer in that to until I looked on the crime map, and it completely changed my opinion. I'm looking to buy a house and this map is making impact on my decision. Geo NCC Locations I'm looking at Middletown and Bear. I'm not even considering Bear anymore. I was shocked to see how much crime there was in Middletown. Frankly I'm not use to it.

[wilman]

You can move to Middletown to try to escape crime, but in the real world crime is everywhere no matter where you move to. Either it's drugs, robberies, murders, stolen Property. It's everywhere all over the US all over the world. Delaware is small so it seems out of control. Just like Alaska. Alaska may be the biggest state in the US but Delaware is more populated and Alaska is actually rated #7 as most dangerous state of 2007

[Laural]

Originally Posted by wilman

You can move to Middletown to try to escape crime, but in the real world crime is everywhere no matter where you move to. Either it's drugs, robberies, murders, stolen Property. It's everywhere all over the US all over the world. Delaware is small so it seems out of control. Just like Alaska. Alaska may be the biggest state in the US but Delaware is more populated and Alaska is actually rated #7 as most dangerous state of 2007

Ok I don't think your understanding anything I'm saying. My point is Middletown has crime too. I do live in the real world, I live in California right below LA, it doesn't get more real than that. I'm not moving to Alaska I'm moving to Delaware. So this has been fun, but I'm gonna move on to a different thread.

[from PA]

I have a general question. Can anyone provide the links to crime maps in other areas? I admit that New Castle County looks pretty scarey but I'm wondering what these maps might reveal about other areas. I think to get a better perspective one needs to do a comparison. I would like to see Kent County where I curently reside and Montgomery county in PA where I lived for +30 years.

[Noodles12]

I think it would be a good idea to compare these stats to other cities before everyone jumps to conclusions.

As anyone knows, stats can be presented to paint a completely different picture than meets the eye. Especially if the News Journal is exploiting it. Sorry, not a good source of information in my opinion.

Lets see some other cities where there are 100's of shootings, drug crimes, bank robberies and bugularies a day. Let's see Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago and compare. Believe me, I'm sure you'd come back to Delaware real quick.