Don't Move To Orlando Area-crime Is Horrendous!! (Miami, West Palm Beach: home, high crime)

[meltyemi]

Move somewhere safer. The suburbs are getting bad also. Kids are going to school with gang members. Home prices are ridiculous and traffic is horrible! We got out of there and while I do realize crime is everywhere-it's not anything like Orlando where we are at now. Plus we don't have to worry about hurricanes like we did here! I lived in Orlando for 22 years-IT WAS TIME TO GET OUT AND PROTECT MY CHILDREN!!!
Juvenile crime is especially bad-these kids don't have any regard for anyone else or human life. There are no "safe" neighborhoods in Orlando anymore!!! It is sad such a beautiful place is going to h---!!!

[Dalt10]

Meltyemi = marylou.......

[Fawkes]

I don't agree.

Crime in Orlando is not that bad. I only know Orlando and Miami, and Miami is definately worse. Even so, I have never had a problem driving in ALL PARTS OF MIAMI!! Bad crime would be up in the NE, Boston, NYC, Detroit, Camden, Newark. But Orlando?? No. Granted I lived in Winter Park, which is the probably the best area of Orlando, but I never heard of a whole lot of crime. Can you honestly say that there is no safe good area of Orlando. I think you are full of it. I don't like Orlando, but you exaggerate.

[bmurphy]

I have to wonder, is it Marylou posting this?

[CURT]

Originally Posted by bmurphy

I have to wonder, is it Marylou posting this?

do you mean marylou, aka autumn is the season, aka christian11?

[Floridasunshine]

maylou, txlady, christia17, christian11, Meltyemi they sound like same person.

[Need_affordable_home]

I agree. There is a very serious crime problem and city-data crime index shows this. I live in West Palm Beach and we get all sorts of crime and its on the news all the time. If crime doesnt scare you then go ahead. I value my safety too much to live in an area with a high crime index


Crime in Orlando by Year
Type 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Murders 19 21 15 15 21 17
per 100,000 10.2 11.3 8.1 8.1 11.3 9.1
Rapes 169 141 135 121 136 174
per 100,000 90.9 75.8 72.6 65.1 73.1 93.6
Robberies 1,096 1,044 1,086 1,034 849 962
per 100,000 589.4 561.4 584.0 556.1 456.6 517.3
Assaults 2,638 2,720 2,449 2,449 2,316 2,409
per 100,000 1418.7 1462.8 1317.0 1317.0 1245.5 1295.5
Burglaries 3,683 3,423 3,529 3,710 3,593 3,601
per 100,000 1980.6 1840.8 1897.8 1995.1 1932.2 1936.5
Thefts 15,292 12,607 12,842 11,602 11,511 11,292
per 100,000 8223.7 6779.7 6906.1 6239.3 6190.3 6072.6
Auto thefts 2,098 2,413 2,307 2,202 1,920 1,979
per 100,000 1128.3 1297.7 1240.6 1184.2 1032.5 1064.3
Arson 56 45 60 53 48 40
per 100,000 30.1 24.2 32.3 28.5 25.8 21.5
City-data.com crime index (higher means more crime, U.S. average = 325.2) 1065.0 1006.5 984.1 948.3 892.1 924.5

[Karla with a K]

Originally Posted by Floridasunshine

maylou, txlady, christia17, christian11, Meltyemi they sound like same person.

and i thought I was the only one who thought this

[CURT]

Originally Posted by Need_affordable_home

I agree. There is a very serious crime problem and city-data crime index shows this. I live in West Palm Beach and we get all sorts of crime and its on the news all the time. If crime doesnt scare you then go ahead. I value my safety too much to live in an area with a high crime index


Crime in Orlando by Year
Type 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Murders 19 21 15 15 21 17
per 100,000 10.2 11.3 8.1 8.1 11.3 9.1
Rapes 169 141 135 121 136 174
per 100,000 90.9 75.8 72.6 65.1 73.1 93.6
Robberies 1,096 1,044 1,086 1,034 849 962
per 100,000 589.4 561.4 584.0 556.1 456.6 517.3
Assaults 2,638 2,720 2,449 2,449 2,316 2,409
per 100,000 1418.7 1462.8 1317.0 1317.0 1245.5 1295.5
Burglaries 3,683 3,423 3,529 3,710 3,593 3,601
per 100,000 1980.6 1840.8 1897.8 1995.1 1932.2 1936.5
Thefts 15,292 12,607 12,842 11,602 11,511 11,292
per 100,000 8223.7 6779.7 6906.1 6239.3 6190.3 6072.6
Auto thefts 2,098 2,413 2,307 2,202 1,920 1,979
per 100,000 1128.3 1297.7 1240.6 1184.2 1032.5 1064.3
Arson 56 45 60 53 48 40
per 100,000 30.1 24.2 32.3 28.5 25.8 21.5
City-data.com crime index (higher means more crime, U.S. average = 325.2) 1065.0 1006.5 984.1 948.3 892.1 924.5

nah,,,you need to take these statistics and stik..them.....er um,,,burn them. Orlando covers alot of ground. not every inch of orlando is crime ridden. there are certain areas within and around orlando with high crime. unfortunately crime data shows the region as a whole. Most of orlando is just fine. you won't know this because you have never lived there or spent any amount of YEARS there.
as far as places you will or will not live,,,it seems to me that you will live wherever mommy and daddy is.

[bmurphy]

NAH, you can't take a whole city and judge it. Orlando is big. It's sprawling. The high crime does not cover every area with an Orlando address. You need to interpret stats better. Take a Statistics class.