Three shot this morning at Peabody/Obama Football Field

[CaptainPittsburgh]

This argument is making me picture a household scenario in which a new high school graduate is packing his things with plans to move from his parents' inner city home to a suburban neighborhood and his father is saying, "Are you crazy!? Don't you know how much crime and violence there is in those suburbs? No, you need to stay right here in the city with your mother and I."

[UKyank]

Originally Posted by Uptown kid

Wouldn't advise to be that extreeme...

I guess my view may be tainted by the fact that I've had my vehicle broken into 3 times since living in Pittsburgh. Once in the Southside, once in shadyside, and once in Oakland. Never had anything stolen as I didnt have anything of value in the car, but I guess they just wanted to have a look to make sure. 2 broken windows and a slashed top in supposed top neighborhoods (well 2 at least) tends to make one a bit jaded on the matter.

[sealie]

Originally Posted by UKyank

I guess my view may be tainted by the fact that I've had my vehicle broken into 3 times since living in Pittsburgh. Once in the Southside, once in shadyside, and once in Oakland. Never had anything stolen as I didnt have anything of value in the car, but I guess they just wanted to have a look to make sure. 2 broken windows and a slashed top in supposed top neighborhoods (well 2 at least) tends to make one a bit jaded on the matter.

I thought we were talking about shootings, not petty theft. Petty theft is going to be higher in a walkable neighborhood than a cul-de-sac in a suburb, I'll give you that. Pretty much any city, anywhere.

[UKyank]

Originally Posted by sealie

I thought we were talking about shootings, not petty theft. Petty theft is going to be higher in a walkable neighborhood than a cul-de-sac in a suburb, I'll give you that. Pretty much any city, anywhere.

I was speaking of crime in general. But yes, shootings are much more common also just to a much lesser extent compared to overall crimes. Petty theft (though hate the term petty when referring to something a deadbeat does that costs you thousands of dollars) is just the more common annoyance of city living.

[sparrowmint]

That's also called bad luck more than anything. I've never had anything stolen in any neighbourhood or community in Pittsburgh, despite having a nice car that usually has an ipod, GPS, whatever in it, and I've lived in Mt Oliver, East McKeesport, and Penn Hills, and have spent a lot of time with a parked car in various surrounding, low income communities. That's the inverse, called good luck. However, I lived in a swanky suburb of Portland for a couple years though and our car was chronically broken into. Our roommate's car was wrecked in numerous ways from multiple break ins (windows broken, front console completely wrecked, all the electronics wrecked). It wasn't even a walkable area, it was specifically targeted by petty thieves because it was known that higher income people lived there, and we chased car thieves off the mountain more than once until security was stepped up. My brother had a bunch of stuff stolen from his car in a very, very nice part of Ottawa, Ontario. My parents have had stuff stolen from their vehicles in a tiny rural hamlet in Ontario. Petty crimes of opportunity happen everywhere to some degree and everyone will be a victim of it at some point.

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by sealie

I thought we were talking about shootings, not petty theft. Petty theft is going to be higher in a walkable neighborhood than a cul-de-sac in a suburb, I'll give you that. Pretty much any city, anywhere.

Theft and burglary are about the only things happening in the suburbs, with an occassional rape or domestic related murder.