Portland Maine 101

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by Petertherock

OK the cops just got a call for 60 Grant st for a fight. I seem to remember them going to this address an awful lot. Maybe some kind of neighbor dispute? Then about 2 minutes later they got a call for someone threatening another person on the 100 block of Grant Street. Sounds like another neighborhood dispute. It just doesn't seem like a safe area but that's just based on scanner traffic.

I know the police come to the complex I live at a few times a month for domestics and what not but it's still a safe and good area to live at. So police calls to a certain area doesn't always make an area a bad area.

I guess that all things are relative.

I have lived in areas before where LEO routinely responded; and I have lived in areas where LEO rarely went to.

In my humble experience: a neighborhood with high LEO response is a relatively high crime area.

[K-Luv]

Originally Posted by Petertherock

OK the cops just got a call for 60 Grant st for a fight. I seem to remember them going to this address an awful lot. Maybe some kind of neighbor dispute? Then about 2 minutes later they got a call for someone threatening another person on the 100 block of Grant Street. Sounds like another neighborhood dispute. It just doesn't seem like a safe area but that's just based on scanner traffic.

I know the police come to the complex I live at a few times a month for domestics and what not but it's still a safe and good area to live at. So police calls to a certain area doesn't always make an area a bad area.

The neighbor below me listens to his police scanner all the time, I need to get one as well.

My assessment of the situation is that these types of people grew up in a situation where threatening one another is considered normal behavior (which is why it might be that I have never seen anyone hauled off in cuffs). Alcohol consumption and (probably) drugs as well seem to be highly consumed on this street, which has a tendency to rile people up emotionally.

The street is weird; you have this element, but also many positive citizens from the average Joe to college students to professionals.

When I lived in Minneapolis, a property would be deemed nuisance by the police if the police where called to a particular property over five times within one year. The landlord would be required to evict the problem tenants, but, the property could also then be deemed a nuisance by the city, in which the city could seize the property from the landlord for not having control over the residents.

Portland does not seem to have such a law. I think that it should.

[Skiptomylou]

Originally Posted by Petertherock

OK the cops just got a call for 60 Grant st for a fight. I seem to remember them going to this address an awful lot. Maybe some kind of neighbor dispute? Then about 2 minutes later they got a call for someone threatening another person on the 100 block of Grant Street. Sounds like another neighborhood dispute. It just doesn't seem like a safe area but that's just based on scanner traffic.

I know the police come to the complex I live at a few times a month for domestics and what not but it's still a safe and good area to live at. So police calls to a certain area doesn't always make an area a bad area.

Sounds like some good neighborhood drama.

[Petertherock]

Originally Posted by K-Luv

The neighbor below me listens to his police scanner all the time, I need to get one as well.

In the mean time you can listen online here...

http://www.portlandfirefighters.com/scanner.htm (broken link)