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Really? I always thought flint was far worse on Saginaw north of the river and neighborhoods to the west of saginaw, between saginaw, dupont, and pierson.

Then the state streets area over near Dort and Davison....
It's really hard to say I suppose. It's been years since I even drove through that area.

Anything north of downtown between 475 and like Clio Rd. is REALLY sketchy. It seems as though hearing of a body fished out of Devils Lake was a common occurrence. :(

We used to go watch the people drag race on James P. Cole Blvd. on the weekends. Usually the cops would roll through and break it up. Saw quite a few fights, heard gun shots a few times, but that's not the point of my story. One night we heard a ton of sirens, but never saw any police. Besides they liked to try and sneak up. I figured I'd go find out where they went. We headed up Saginaw and they had the road blocked off so I tried a few side roads to see if I could get closer. Somehow we came out right in the middle of their blocked off area and out in front of one of the clubs in the middle of the street a couple guys were laying face down... and no one was in a hurry to attend to them. That was the last time I went exploring in Flint. :sonicjay:
 
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It's really hard to say I suppose. It's been years since I even drove through that area.

Anything north of downtown between 475 and like Clio Rd. is REALLY sketchy. It seems as though hearing of a body fished out of Devils Lake was a common occurrence. :(

We used to go watch the people drag race on James P. Cole Blvd. on the weekends. Usually the cops would roll through and break it up. Saw quite a few fights, heard gun shots a few times, but that's not the point of my story. One night we heard a ton of sirens, but never saw any police. Besides they liked to try and sneak up. I figured I'd go find out where they went. We headed up Saginaw and they had the road blocked off so I tried a few side roads to see if I could get closer. Somehow we came out right in the middle of their blocked off area and out in front of one of the clubs in the middle of the street a couple guys were laying face down... and no one was in a hurry to attend to them. That was the last time I went exploring in Flint. :sonicjay:

Oh the days of exploring.

They pulled bodies out of the river a couple times while I was at Kettering. Gun shots, and people/house being robbed was the norm the last couple years I was the there. From what I remember Dupont/Pasadena and north were really bad.
 
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I had to go to a power plant in n/e flint a week and a half ago, had to take a detour because there was a shooting and the cops had everything shutdown. Leaving the plant, the workers told me a fast way to get back on the hwy followed by "don't make any complete stops."
 
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There are far worse neighborhoods in Flint than that one they name. I worked in that neighborhood for 6 years, and often was down there at 3-4 am to open the office up. Though we had a lot of thefts, and dumping in the area, we also had Johns beating hookers in the neighboring parking lot.

In the 6 years I was there (the named area) the Taco Bell manager got shot, and a John and his hooker got whacked on Lapeer Rd.

Robert T, Dayton Ave, Dupont, Clio Rd, Pierson Rd, or any of the "state named" streets are much worse areas.

I had to do service calls in a lot of those areas sometimes when I worked at the Pierson Rd Home Depot, that got sketchy - i was the main reason I kept my '87 caprice around. I would take that on a call rather than my lifted Wrangler - it actually made a huge difference in how I was treated down there.
 
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Honestly while I was there I heard of far less incidents than I did in the couple months I took classes at Wayne State.

The police presence around campus was pretty good and all you ever had was petty things and some cars being broken into.

Granted that was almost 10 years ago now though and back then Flint actually still had a police force.
 
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I think any time you have a university in a very urban area that is filled with young, naive, idealistic children you will have great opportunity for crime.

Like I said it seemed like every other day I would see the emails from the WSU security alerts about someone being mugged, someone's car being stolen, someone being raped, etc...

After a few weeks of having to walk waaaaaay out to my car at 10:00 at night along half lit sidewalks, alone, I decided I was going to take the necessary measures to ensure my safety...
 
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