A week on Teesside

Norman_Conquest

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We've had a body discovered in Normanby, which police believe could be a targeted murder, petrol bombs thrown at the compound of North Ormesby police station with forensics vans burnt and shots fired in a Middlesbrough street. Add to that the guy who got 10 years for slashing someone and leaving him 'scarred life Frankenstein,'

This area is becoming a very dangerous place to live.
 
We've had a body discovered in Normanby, which police believe could be a targeted murder, petrol bombs thrown at the compound of North Ormesby police station with forensics vans burnt and shots fired in a Middlesbrough street. Add to that the guy who got 10 years for slashing someone and leaving him 'scarred life Frankenstein,'

This area is becoming a very dangerous place to live.
It always has been in certain areas, we know more about what's going on today due to social media.
 
It always has been in certain areas, we know more about what's going on today due to social media.
Not to this level - You never had so many shootings, arson attacks or murders and as for social media allowing us to know, anything like this would have been on the news headlines.
 
Not to this level - You never had so many shootings, arson attacks or murders and as for social media allowing us to know, anything like this would have been on the news headlines.
It feels no different and I’ve been here for years. Be interesting to see the stats but as mentioned above you’re probably hearing about it more.
 
I'm just not buying that you are hearing more about it due to the internet. Anything like that above would have spread like wild fire either through the Tom, Toms or the Gazette. I am not foolish to think it is only on Teesside that it happens, but it is every other week now we are reading about gun shots being fired in the street over drug feuds or the paper is running a story of someone being murdered.

We have some brilliant areas on Teesside but the dregs are dragging it down.
 
I remember murders, joyrider problems, violent attacks etc being pretty common in the 80s / 90s The area is as safe/unsafe as it has always been.
 
I haven’t from memory, that being said I haven’t read about a joy rider dying out the back of me after crashing on Overdale Road or people shot dead on the estate in years, that doesn’t lead me to believe crime has ended on the estate.

People will remember recent stuff and forgot how bad things were in the past. In the same way my Dad and Grandad did. Middlesbrough has always been ‘rough’, still a good place to live.
 
Portsmouth, especially Havant, Leigh Park and Paulsgrove and parts of Southampton such as Totton, St Mary's and Bitterne make Teesside look like South Kensington.
 
Doing vehicle recovery in Norwich and having to go into the Larkman estate in the City. My boss tell when you go and tell me when you get out. Rough areas in every Town or City, scour the local rags headlines.
 
Some aspects are worse, some better. The increase in violence related to organised* crime has definitely risen in recent years.

*I think the word organised does most of them involved in it an injustice really, they're generally not the sharpest tools in the box.
 
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