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Hotspot areas for crime in Dennistoun?
If you're walking along Duke Street in the next few days, you might see me out and about, handing out some questionairres about crime in the area.
What id like to know from the people who visit this forum is:
What are the hotspot areas for crime in the area?
(what areas do you avoid/ associate with anti-social behaviour etc).
Thanks very much those who contribute
Regards, Duncan
Duncan McLaren - 1/02/2010 9:06:46 PM
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i would avoid going up the drives after dark,muggers paradise
casper - 3/02/2010 11:34:28 PM
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Not sure there is a hotspot area. It's not that specific. In the 2 streets ive lived in Dennistoun I've had my car attack overnight. Twice. Completely random. Craigpark and Ingleby. Ive heard of a mugging in Hillfoot literally yards from a guys front door. Teens, especially in the summer, love to kick around with a drink in them and can get loud. Without doubt there is an anti social problem. Generally the same as every east end area I suppose. Dennistoun has its problems. Not huge problems but it could be better.
km - 4/02/2010 10:56:42 PM
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The bottom of Garfield street at the bridge over the railway line is a definite no-go area for me. The CCTV camera at the bottom of Whitehill Street is trained on there most of the time because there is so often trouble.
Jemma - 4/02/2010 10:58:38 PM
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km - it is not only the east end which suffers from anti social problems!!!!
anon - 5/02/2010 9:26:50 PM
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Anon, sorry i didnt include the rest of the world in my post, silly me. As Dennistoun is in the east end i thought it relevant to keep within that area. Open it up by all means!
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km - 6/02/2010 11:30:08 AM
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jemma do you actually live in the area,the bridge is at the bottom of bellfield and there has been no trouble there in four years
casper - 7/02/2010 10:48:39 AM
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I think peoples fear of crime exceeds the reality!
I don't believe there to be any particular crime hot-spots in Dennistoun. Common sense suggests that, in any area of dense population, there will will be a higher incidence of crime but to suggest that a particular Drive or Street is more prone to criminality is just scaremongering & unhelpful.
I'm in my mid-30's and have lived in Dennistoun for 15 years and i've (thankfully) never been mugged, assaulted or had any of my property damaged in any way. Not for a minute am i suggesting that it doesn't happen, just never to me or my family or my friends.
Anti-social behaviour...
We associate tracksuit-clad youngsters as being the perpetrators but i'd suggest we look at how our societys attitudes to each other has changed. How many of us know our neighbours, how many of us keep an eye on the wee old biddy across the landing (taking her rubbish down the back or bringing him his Sundat papers in), how many of us yell at youngsters to get away from our close doors when all they're doing is being young with nothing better to do?
Similarly, when the snow was here, the daily chat was "the pavements are a disgrace, i could hardly get out my close". Well, why don't you assume some responsibility and pick up a shovel! Dennistoun isn't perfect and I don't live in a fanciful fluffy world but we've all got a collective responsibility to contribute to making our community a nice place to live.
cheers
fullfatmilk
fullfatmilk - 7/02/2010 4:55:31 PM
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my son walks over that bridge twice a day to and from st mungos school. he has done this for 5 years, unaccompanied no bother
jimmy cagney - 7/02/2010 4:56:30 PM
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Why would going up the Drives be scary at night? I'm genuinely curious. Thanks.
Larry Peep - 8/02/2010 9:13:21 AM
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I always thought the drives were seen as being a wee bit better than other parts of Dennistoun (according to the estate agents anyway). I've only had one bit of bother. Some eejit thought it would be fun to kick the wing mirrors off of cars on Christmas night. Sadly my visitors who were staying over from Ayrshire had to drive home on Boxing day with no mirror. But that can happen anywhere. I used to live in the West End (Hyndland) for years and my car got keyed often!
PMC - 8/02/2010 10:02:33 PM
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jemma do you actually live in the area,the bridge is at the bottom of bellfield and there has been no trouble there in four years/
Casper, I was assaulted on duke street last year and the police told me there was a slim chance it had been caught on cctv because 90% of the time that camera at whitehill street is trained on the bridge.
My apologies for getting the street name wrong but obviously everyone knows where I'm talking about. I don't think there are any problems during the day but I certainly would not venture over that bridge at night.
And for your information I have lived in this area for the last 14 years .... I am, however, the worst person in the world to ask for directions and can get lost in a supermarket :D
jemma - 8/02/2010 10:03:38 PM
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I agree regarding the warped sense of perception that people have as a rsult of tittle-tattle and media reporting, versus the statistical reality.
Very interesting article here: www.economist.com/world/britain/
displayStory.cfm?story_id=15452867
"Crime, family break-up, drunks and drugs: the Conservatives - and apparently plenty of voters - think that Britain has a - broken society - . Does the claim stand up?"
The answer, in short is: not in the way that we're often told that it is.
"...people's ideas about the state of society are simply inaccurate: the average voter reckons that four out of ten teenagers have children, for instance, whereas in fact perhaps three in a hundred do."
Also, consider the following theory;
"Children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
It was attributed to Socrates by Plato almost 2,500 years ago.
The Evening Times published some comprehensive crime figures in 2008 (can't find any more recent ones):
Glasgow racism and sex crimes league tables beat by beat - www.eveningtimes.co.uk/
glasgow-racism-and-sex-crimes-league-
tables-beat-by-beat-1.978017
Glasgow violent crimes league tables beat by beat - www.eveningtimes.co.uk/
glasgow-violent-crimes-league-
tables-beat-by-beat-1.978014
A summary of the info in those reports is that Dennistoun is pretty much middling compared to the rest of Glasgow when it comes to crime overall. And favourable when compared to some areas that get held up as examples of supposedly better areas of the city.
I trust that all this will be taken into account in any write-up about Dennistoun that gets written and published.
anon - 12/02/2010 4:36:26 PM
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