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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Safety as felt from the sidewalk

As someone who's been walking and talking buses throughout the city, I see the city in slower motion than a car driver. I know fewer areas well.

I've lived in two areas that became crime ridden. The process as seen from street level starts with small things: bars on windows, fences in front of houses, dogs, screen doors made of thick bars among other things.

As the process unfolded in the second place I lived, I would ask home owners, when the opportunity presented itself, why. There answers always were from some incident that would have been unimaginable before such as my house got broken into, I found a stranger in my front yard among others.

It's a game a cat and mouse where when some psychological threshold has been reached, people move. The area is now "sketchy."

I wonder if I'll see it again where I live now?????

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