They like getting plumbed.

When I first moved to Houston got lost leaving a meeting down town Shell Oil HQ building down town. I ended up in one of the Wards, it sas bad but not as bad as the area in Fort Worth, I belive someone said it was called Top Six.

Its a shame areas in the major cities end up like they do.

That had to be the Handley Plant. It is Off East 820 on East Rosedale It is in the Stop Six area
It was originally a Texas Electric Service Co. Plant before it was sold to Exelon

I've not been all over Dallas, but it seems it would be easier to name the "safer" parts of town, but even then I'm not sure I would live there. Was it 2 years ago that the woman was shot in the parking garage of an Uptown apartment? And a few nights ago, there was a robbery at the Ritz. I've walked to the train station in front of the AAC at 9 pm. It's more than a little sketchy. It has to be one of the most politically corrupt cities in the US. Police Dept. is a disaster (that seems to be getting better), school board is a disaster, city council is a disaster.

There's also another interesting dynamic that happens in these neighborhoods. I have a friend who was a teacher at Poly in Fort Worth for a long time. When she first started there, it seemed stuff was stolen every day. She even had her car stolen out of the teacher's parking lot. But she persevered. She eventually became the safest person in that area. My teenage daughter went to several basketball games with her, and I never worried about it. People protected her, and everyone knew she was off limits. Not that it would have mattered, though, this person has walked the streets of some of the most dangerous places in the world (that makes Stop Six look like a candy striper convention) without fear.

Stip 6

The West Side bc of the Jamaican Posse clowns.

whoa my post brought back to live another day

SO WHAT YOU THINK makes these "rough" areas rough? Drugs? Hookers? Poorness? Race? Bush? (haha) or most of what i mentioned?

these guys exaggerate

Cedar Crest is a decent course, and the neighborhood around it is fine. I go there to hit balls on occasion. On weekends they always have big groups of kids out there taking lessons.

Lake Highlands is fine, there are some shady areas up near 635 but it's not bad

about the only part of town I don't like going to is Pleasant Grove and the area along MLK

The problem is, you see things on the face, judging a book by its cover. I work the streets in those areas or have in the past. Did you know that the Forest/Audelia & Skillman/Aurelia area leads the city in violent crime? You can almost 100% accurately predict the crime trend for the city based off those 2 areas.

PG is bad on the face, but the opportunity for violent crime such as robberies and property crimes such as thefts/burglaries just aren't there. Oak Cliff is a rough place, as is West Dallas, we here so many gun shots while I work 8p-4a, the officers don't even flinch or notify dispatch. It's just part of the Cliff. So many violent crimes in West Dallas go unreported, that 13 reported crimes since the first of the year raised the reported crime by 42% in that area over this time last year.

how many of those violent crimes affect non residents passing through?

I hear gun shots from my house in the M Streets all the time, I don't flinch either.

East Dallas, where you are located really isn't rough, to me. Wednesday night into Thursday morning, my partner and I on viewed a drive by shooting (arrested 1 w/1 gun recovered) , arrested a felony warrant suspect (recovered 1 gun), and found a stolen F350 (recovered 1 gun). That was an 8 hour shift, and I don't wear a uniform. That was all from the Oak Cliff/West Dallas area.

It's not rough. At all. I wouldn't consider anything north of I-30, south of 635, and west of Buckner "rough". East of there I call "Mesquite", and north of there I call "Garland". I guess I forget that north of 635 is actually still Dallas

It's a different city than it was 10 years ago for sure.

I think a more interesting statistic than violent crime numbers would be something along the lines of how often a resident of Old Lake Highlands is robbed or assaulted in North Lake Highlands, or how often someone from Kessler Park is carjacked on their way to Trinity Groves or the Design District.

We all know that the impoverished tend to prey on their own, and that violent crime statistics are going to reflect this... but does that make an area dangerous?

West Dallas is certainly one of the chittiest parts of town. They should just eminent domain the whole area and bulldoze it. I can't really think of a reason for any of us to ever have to go in there. There's no route for thru traffic. Maybe they can build a nice park overlooking the trinity. I drove through there one day soon after they announced the Trinity Groves development thinking there could be investment opportunities. I changed my mind real quick

Mr Pookie and K Roc used to rap about Audelia. I used to run around there in the early 2000's. S hole for sure.

Didn't there used to be some liquor stores at Audelia or Jupiter and 635? In high school we would go down there and get someone hanging out in the parking lot to buy us liquor

Maybe it was further west, Abrams or something. We would go to the one off Spring Valley and if that didn't work we knew we coudl go down there...

Not smart, in hindsight