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Old 02-01-2016, 01:59 PM
 
Location: Heading Northwest In Nevada
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Boy, looks like parts of Jacksonville are really getting socked with crime.........and we've only been thru the first month of the year.

All I'm wondering is........just what can be done?
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Old 02-01-2016, 02:29 PM
 
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Nothing, nothing at all. People have been marching, pleading, and protesting for years on end and not a single thing has changed. Task forces have been created, police have worked overtime, but still nothing has changed. Until parents start actually raising their kids and doing it properly this cycle will continue. Look at the location of each homicide, its not hard to see a trend.
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Old 02-01-2016, 03:29 PM
 
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You could very well be right, but the crime wasn't this bad when we first moved here in Jan. '09. Don't get me wrong, it was bad, just don't think this bad.
I understand about the parents upbringing, but there are other things that this hike in crime comes from.

It's just funny to me that so many people are moving here/want to, no matter what the crime rate is. I guess people can't get high paying salaries in small towns with much lower crime rates.

The community, in those high crime areas, keep saying they want to do something about the crime, but what???

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Nothing, nothing at all. People have been marching, pleading, and protesting for years on end and not a single thing has changed. Task forces have been created, police have worked overtime, but still nothing has changed. Until parents start actually raising their kids and doing it properly this cycle will continue. Look at the location of each homicide, its not hard to see a trend.
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Old 02-01-2016, 08:46 PM
 
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That's why Chief/Commissioner/Security Consultant Bratton makes a lot of money ands stays employed.
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Old 02-02-2016, 10:36 AM
 
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You could very well be right, but the crime wasn't this bad when we first moved here in Jan. '09. Don't get me wrong, it was bad, just don't think this bad.
I understand about the parents upbringing, but there are other things that this hike in crime comes from.

It's just funny to me that so many people are moving here/want to, no matter what the crime rate is. I guess people can't get high paying salaries in small towns with much lower crime rates.

The community, in those high crime areas, keep saying they want to do something about the crime, but what???
I just went and peeped the crime data on this site and crime as a whole, including murders, were higher in 09 than now! It may just be you are paying more attention to it now. I've been here since 2013 and the more i read the news the ghetto'er i perceive Jax as regardless of the actual rate lol.

The reality is though most crime, especially murder and violent is concentrated in the North/Northwest with less intense concentrations in the west and Arlington. Yes it happens on the Southside here and there but its nothing like the other areas of town.

I would love to see Jax true crime rate if it was calculated on the original city borders. I guarantee it would be up there with Detroit and Camden. Our crime stats as a whole are watered way down by consolidation and their still pretty high.
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Old 02-02-2016, 10:56 AM
 
Location: Heading Northwest In Nevada
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So, WHY so many people still moving here?? They care more about a descent salary than the crime rate? A person would think more people would be giving it a second thought about moving here.

We aren't going to stay, but we will both be retired when we leave.
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Old 02-02-2016, 11:49 AM
 
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Just stay out of the Northside.
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Old 02-02-2016, 04:24 PM
 
Location: Amelia Island/Rhode Island
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So, WHY so many people still moving here?? They care more about a descent salary than the crime rate? A person would think more people would be giving it a second thought about moving here.

We aren't going to stay, but we will both be retired when we leave.
Hence the tremendous buildup in Saint John's County and up here in Nassau County.......if you haven't been to Yulee in a while you would be shocked at the growth......the builders can't keep up.

They say that 45% of those living here are commuting into Jacksonville.
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Old 02-02-2016, 04:50 PM
 
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The population is growing so much in Jax and I just don't understand that, especially when it comes to how much crime has been going on so far.
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Old 02-02-2016, 05:24 PM
 
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So, WHY so many people still moving here?? They care more about a descent salary than the crime rate? A person would think more people would be giving it a second thought about moving here.

We aren't going to stay, but we will both be retired when we leave.
Absolutely, I moved here because the job was here. Now I am a young guy with no kids so crime rate isn't a huge deal to me, but I wouldn't want to raise children here, at least inside duval county. I think city county consolidation made it easier for the thug type people to spread out more in the metro area due to stretched services. Also I think many people knowingly deal with the higher crime rate just to live in florida. I like it down here personally it's just much different from the northeast where the ghetto people are all contained in one area (blunt but true).
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