Crime and Unsafe Areas of Ft Lauderdale (Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale: real estate, crime rates)
Fort Lauderdale areaBroward County
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It seems every time someone ask about a certain area to buy a home everyone says not there the crime is awful! If all of these areas are so bad and crime ridden why the hell isn't someone doing something about it! Do you all just sit at home dogging your home towns and do nothing to create change for the better. Maybe you are all in your gated communities where you think that nothing in this crazy world can find you? Instead of bashing all of these areas that seem to be crime dens why doesn't the community and the police department do something? If not I guess you will all be running somewhere else to find another gated haven to feel safe in. You just seem to assume that all people have enormous amounts of money to buy homes. To anyone looking for a home in Ft Lauderdale just go there and see these areas and then decide if you can live there and feel safe. Take a drive in these areas at different times of the day and night and different week days to get a feel for the area. Do not base your opinions on what a select few in the forums tell you and especially real estate agents!
It seems every time someone ask about a certain area to buy a home everyone says not there the crime is awful! If all of these areas are so bad and crime ridden why the hell isn't someone doing something about it! Do you all just sit at home dogging your home towns and do nothing to create change for the better. Maybe you are all in your gated communities where you think that nothing in this crazy world can find you? Instead of bashing all of these areas that seem to be crime dens why doesn't the community and the police department do something? If not I guess you will all be running somewhere else to find another gated haven to feel safe in. You just seem to assume that all people have enormous amounts of money to buy homes. To anyone looking for a home in Ft Lauderdale just go there and see these areas and then decide if you can live there and feel safe. Take a drive in these areas at different times of the day and night and different week days to get a feel for the area. Do not base your opinions on what a select few in the forums tell you and especially real estate agents!
Why red?
People in this forum are all rich and live in Weston and Parkland.
It seems every time someone ask about a certain area to buy a home everyone says not there the crime is awful! If all of these areas are so bad and crime ridden why the hell isn't someone doing something about it!
We can't do anything about it because doing something about crime is being gradually outlawed. The police arrest a ton of violent criminals and the courts put them in jail. The result? Much of our establishment (especially the media) complains about too many people in jail (Google "prison industrial complex" for some of the whining) and agitates for less policing.
The latest case is in Sanford, where people are trying to establish the precedent that neighborhood watchmen should not be allowed to look at people who don't live in a community. Literally, looking at someone will be a justification for assault according to this latest line of thinking.
As for the people living in these neighborhoods, they consistently vote for softer law enforcement.
If all of these areas are so bad and crime ridden why the hell isn't someone doing something about it! Do you all just sit at home dogging your home towns and do nothing to create change for the better.
What exactly do you expect residents to do about crime? Specifically, what are the residents of (insert affluent suburb here) supposed to do about crime in (insert crime ridden neighborhood here)?
We can't do anything about it because doing something about crime is being gradually outlawed. The police arrest a ton of violent criminals and the courts put them in jail. The result? Much of our establishment (especially the media) complains about too many people in jail (Google "prison industrial complex" for some of the whining) and agitates for less policing.
The latest case is in Sanford, where people are trying to establish the precedent that neighborhood watchmen should not be allowed to look at people who don't live in a community. Literally, looking at someone will be a justification for assault according to this latest line of thinking.
As for the people living in these neighborhoods, they consistently vote for softer law enforcement.
First of all, I find your comments about Sanford incredibly ignorant and probably politically motivated. The fact is that you were not there and you do not know what really happened. Zimmerman being a neighborhood watch captain, as if that title means anything, does not give him the right to shoot someone for looking at him funny or for being from outside of the community. Didn't Martin have family living in the community anyways? So your entire viewpoint is based on a false premise. If Zimmerman was actually attacked by Martin, and he had no choice but to shoot, then his actions were justified. But the fact is you and I don't know if that was the case or who attacked who first. You are just picking sides based on irrational reasons. The legal system will probably let Zimmerman go because there isn't enough evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Zimmerman's story is false.
Back to the original topic, I think that the problem has nothing to do with policing or lack thereof. There are millions of cops everywhere, and local law enforcement agencies all over Broward to a fine job of busting criminals. Cops today are so much more sophisticated and well equipped to combat crime than in the past. Yet the crime still keeps coming. Busting all of these people isn't deterring or preventing crime. They are locking up more and more people each year, yet crime rates remain constant. What does this tell us? That all of this over-policing isn't solving the problem. Why? Because it isn't addressing the root causes of the problems.
As far as people whining and complaining, it is because of over-policing. When policing shifts from trying to protect people to overrunning their constitutional rights, I think that's where you draw the line. We are becoming a 1984 society and almost everything in George Orwell's book is coming true. Should we just go ahead and have cameras installed in our living room tv sets so the police and government can monitor us? That is the direction we're headed.
Well this post went entirely in the wrong direction. I did not need schooling on Zimmerman.
I think your original post can be answered with the NIMBY mindset (Not In My Back Yard). People don't care about crime in the bad section of town until it spills over into their neighborhood. Lauderdale has thousands of waterfront million dollar homes, yet have ghettos just blocks away. Broward Blvd comes to mind, just a couple blocks from Las Olas Blvd. I lived in Lauderdale for years but certainly wouldn't want to raise a family there now. East Ft Lauderdale is great but also seems to be a drop off point for losers of the nation (much like Key West and a Daytona). Can't hack it in XYZ, USA then pack your clunker and move to Flariduh since you had a great time on vacation there once only to find your hometime problems followed you to Florida also. Ghettos are full of 2nd, 3rd, 4th generation poor that collect govt assistance then move on to crime as suplimental income.
So what is there to fix? When the SHTF do you hole up in your Harbor Beach mansion or load the yacht and take off?
Fort Lauderdale, and South Florida in general, amaze me like no other metro area I've ever seen. You have wealth in one area, then a few blocks over you have a ghetto. This pattern is consistent throughout the entire county. As an example, you have wealth and mansions east of US1 in Fort Lauderdale. Go eight blocks west of US1, and you have the Sistrunk neighborhood. The close proximity of the vastly different neighborhoods is just fascinating.
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