IGTIGT Phase I Summary Statements - Draft 2/18/11

Summary Number: 78
 
Increase personal safety and reduce fear
 
 "I often don't feel safe in Tucson. Seems to be high crime. Dark streets, feels unsafe. Hard to find places for children to walk around without a parent and feel they are safe."
 "It feels like at any given moment I could get in an accident because so many people are all over the place trying to quickly get to their destination."
 "My friend lives right across the wash and my mother wont let me go across because it is unsafe."
 "There are several safe communities to live in. We live in a middle class home where we feel very safe."
 "For pedestrians in the area of downtown, it's not a safe place crossing the streets. People in cars continue to run lights and go through when pedestrians have the right of way."
 "It is a false fear - media exaggerates crime, results in fear."
 ". . . the availability of clean and safe bike paths and sidewalks allows me and my family to get out and exercise. These designated paths are well traveled, and so it feels safe to use them."
 "Dark alley ways are not safe, especially for a young woman."
 "Downtown is still too dangerous. I would never take my family there."
 "Bike lanes are frightening- need to be improved and made safer."
 "There are events and businesses that I don't visit simply because I do not feel the adequate presence of police/security personnel."
 "The neighborhoods would look safer and look as if people cared about their homes and city if they were neat and tidy and cared for."
 "Controlling our population of illegal migrants would make Tucson a safer place to live as well as reduce the burdens on our public services and thereby hold down the financial costs on all the legal residents."
 "I want to be able to travel safely with my children on my bike wherever I go and right now that is not possible."