Day-to-day Crime Activity in Tulsa - a real threat? (Broken Arrow: low crime, houses)

[gobigred]

Hi everyone. I was wondering if random crime in Tulsa is a problem. For instance, is anyone afraid to go to Wal-Mart for fear of being robbed in the parking lot? Do you lock your doors when you are home during the day? Are car jackings common? I am asking in particular about the low crime areas such as South Tulsa. I live in the Jackson, MS area and nowhere is safe from daily random crime. Everyone is constantly "watching their back". We were thinking of moving to Tulsa after we heard that crime is relatively low. We want to live in a place where we can go to the mall, the grocery store, church, etc., without a fear of being robbed. Is Tulsa a safe place?

[Synopsis]

Yes, Tulsa is a very safe place. Unfortunately, the North side is pretty bad, but crime is not spread over the city as a whole. I hope you find Tulsa to be as attractive as I have found it to be. I'd move there in a heartbeat if the situation presented itself.
Good luck!

[MrsSteel]

GoBigRed, I have family that originally lived in Jackson, MS who moved to Tulsa. They seem to feel safer in Tulsa. That doesn't mean that Tulsa is some perfect utopia. It's a good idea to lock the doors on your house & car no matter where you live. But all in all, I felt pretty safe living in Tulsa. Just use some common sense & you should be fine.

[gobigred]

That is good to know about Tulsa. All cities have their crime areas, like Tulsa's northside, but not all cities have crime everywhere like Jackson. I'd like to go shopping by myself without looking over my shoulder. My husband discourages me from going out by myself in Jackson because of the crime. Sometimes I have to, but I am always careful. Parking lot robberies are very common. One lady I work with was robbed inside a department store! Someone came up behind her with a gun while she was at a clothing rack and demanded her wallet. The man ran out of the store with her wallet, and then she screamed for help. It just so happened that the store had not been open long and had not yet wired their security cameras for the store nor for the parking lot. The guy got away scott-free. We live in a neighborhood where houses are in the $200k and crime is all around us. There is vandalism, windows in cars are smashed, break-ins, etc. There is no where to get away from the crime. Its exhausting.

[cwhittiker]

Hey GoBigRed, I grew up in Broken Arrow a burb of Tulsa, and crime is practically non-existant. Other parts of Tulsa are great also, I'd say centralized areas are great crime statistic wise. Yes I hate to say, but North Tulsa is the majority of the crime.

BTW, there is a very handy crime mapping device on Tulsa Police Department website. It lets you see where crimes have been committed in what neighborhoods. Use it

[alanm96ss]

GoBigRed,

Like others have said, stay away from North Tulsa (and it's not even that bad during daylight hours) and stay in south Tulsa areas (Broken Arrow, Bixby, Jenks, etc.) and the worse crime you will ever see is maybe a speeding car or j-walking.

[Goodpasture]

On really hot days, I not only don't lock my truck when I go into Wal-mart, I leave the windows down.

[Mattie Jo]

I do the same. Not that I live in Tulsa. I lived in a small town in california where the ranchers would come into town and leave their keys in the car. where we would go on vacation and not lock the house. this was only 15 years ago.

[Goodpasture]

I'm not sure where the keys to my house are, but I live 40 miles west of Tulsa, and between the dogs and the attack geese, we don;t worry too much about theft.......

[veganwriter]

It kills me how "good" (a.k.a. white or majority white ... or simply higher income) neighborhoods are promoted ... and what information gets left out.

The more I'm here in Tulsa, the more I learn how segregated it is ... and how stupid that segregation makes its inhabitants.

Case in point ... Broken Arrow has been on the news lately as the area with the highest peak in recent property crime. Cars are continually being broken into. Okay ... so there are prohibitions against "sagging" (wonderful!) and gang activity ... but obviously, young people in that area are having problems with crystal meth and other drug use.

1. Tulsa is a racist place. This means its inhabitants are suffering spiritual and emotional "dis-ease" as a result of its culture. (Transpersonal Psychology defines addiction of any kind as a “spiritual emergency.”)

2. The place is FULL of churches ... yet, the divorce rate is high and homosexuality as well as "alternative sexual practices" run rampant here.

3. Oklahoma is so full of itself when it comes to people wanting to distance themselves from being looked down on, that they have become slightly ridiculous in their posturing. Trying DESPREATELY to impress others that they're more than what they are ... because of the insecurity they feel.

4. North Tulsa is constantly referred to as "the place where all the crime is," but I've never seen a "ghetto" with tennis courts, well attended churches and so many well kept homes. It's the historically black area where a hate crime on historic proportions occurred. White Tulsans actually BOMBED (from an airplane) an area that was called, "The Black Wall Street." I don't think the entire place has ever recovered. A wound that has never fully healed ... and even today, Oklahoma remains one of the 10 poorest states in the union.

Tulsans like to put on a good face ... and its true, they have much to be proud of ... but it's sad that they constantly want to sweep their garbage under the rug rather than deal with it ... and grow from it. It keeps them "small" when they could be the well-adjusted, giant people they dream themselves being.

The living conditions that poor whites contend with as a result of all this historical garbage is nothing short of ... awful. Some might even say it's Satanic. Sexual, emotional and physical abuse is rampant. No wonder meth, crack, drunkenness, Oxicotyn, and topless bars are soooo very popular.

"Stay away from North Tulsa???" Stay away from Hillbillies. (Their young sons and daughters will tell you ... those that escape Pa's thinking, shame, and control that is.) I've lived in many places within the US and in other countries ... and it's rare to see a black area so well kept, suffer so much scapegoating. There are no projects there ... many of the homes are so well kept that if they were in California, they'd be selling for $400,000 or more. Even the shabbier home owners cut their lawns.

Want crime? Go to South Tulsa. Go to West Tulsa. Park your late model care in one of Broken Arrow's malls. No ... just come to Tulsa and be emotionally assulted with this 1932 mentality. It is truly amazing sometimes.

Even more amazing is the fact that in spite of all this ... IT'S STILL A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE THAN CALIFORNIA (LOL!!) ... oh ... yeah ... I'm an ex-Californian....