Has anyone been a victim of crime in this N.E. Phoenix area? (Chandler: apartments)

[misermouse]

Five years ago while living in my house on 36th Street & Hearn, after becoming hospitalized for being disabled from work which left my house vacant, my dwelling was broken into, ransacked, damaged, and violated on about five different locations. My car was also stolen. I ended up walking away from my house for the first time in my 60 years of living. Now I live near Cave Creek Road and Union Hills where there is also a lot of crime. About a year ago, there was a murder here and I was on Fox 10 news as a witness to the clean up. It seems to me that crime is on the increase. Anyone else noticing that? My username is Misermouse because I now live below the poverty line on disability and stay to myself a lot as a result of what happened to me five years ago.

[AZgarden]

AM wondering what it is you want to know. Yes there are pockets of heavier crime in some areas in Phoenix and unfortunately you have lived in two of them. Crime may be on the increase in these areas and a shortage of police officers certainly does not help the situation. Still,why don't you find a safer area to live in? This is a very large metropolitan city with all kinds of people. This is life. You either accept it and find a safer place or continue to put up with this stuff where you live. Granted, not having alot of money limits your possibilities, but there certainly must be somewhere safer?

[autism360]

Never hear of much crime here in Chandler, I never felt safer living anywhere in the US.

[MonkeyMom2dd]

Unfortunately, nearly all areas where the people are living below the poverty line tend to have significantly higher crime rates. Violent crime is especially higher (as opposed to simple property crime) in poor areas. Relocating, if you are truly stuck living below the poverty line, may not alleviate the problem.

[Zippyman]

I live less than a mile from those condos/apartments.. There are million dollar+ homes with a view of those apartments, so it isn't neighborhood, as much as neighbors. During the bust, 2-bedroom units there dropped to around $10k, and they've "recovered" to around $40k.. which might be some of the cheapest seats in the valley. Low values don't always equal problems, but it wouldn't surprise me a bit to find that a few slumlords went to town when the prices were low.

[Valley Native]

Originally Posted by misermouse

Five years ago while living in my house on 36th Street & Hearn, after becoming hospitalized for being disabled from work which left my house vacant, my dwelling was broken into, ransacked, damaged, and violated on about five different locations. My car was also stolen. I ended up walking away from my house for the first time in my 60 years of living. Now I live near Cave Creek Road and Union Hills where there is also a lot of crime. About a year ago, there was a murder here and I was on Fox 10 news as a witness to the clean up. It seems to me that crime is on the increase. Anyone else noticing that? My username is Misermouse because I now live below the poverty line on disability and stay to myself a lot as a result of what happened to me five years ago.

I grew up in the area near 36th Street & Bell, which at that time was considered the edge of nowhere. I'm pretty familiar with the neighborhoods near 36th & Hearn, which if I recall are mostly John F. Long homes. I seem to remember they were fairly new homes when I was a kid ... but unfortunately, because they were John F. Long builds, they were cheaper than the standard house price, and tended to attract the lower income types. The sad thing is the lower income areas do have a tendency to have higher crime rates.

You might be familiar with a district called Maryvale. John F. Long basically built Maryvale long ago in his good intention to bring affordable housing to lower income residents ... but look what Maryvale has become as a result: not quite a ghetto, but a very undesirable, high crime area. The N.E. Phoenix area near 36th & Hearn is not quite on the scale of Maryvale ... however, the John F. Long neighborhoods as well as Greenway Square are two predominantly not so good areas located in the middle of a large middle or upper middle class part of Phoenix.