Why Southwest Houston?

[houstonmacbro]

I'd have to say blame the apartments. Low income apartments are magnets for crime...no matter where in the city they are.

I used to live in SW Houston (or is it considered West Houston ... Beltway 8 @ Westheimer) and part of the problem ... I hate to say this ... is that after Katrina there was a LARGE influx of residents. I lived at the generally safe Camden Westchase, but it got pretty weird over there really quick.

I moved to North Houston to be closer to work, but if that was any indication of how other complexes have become, it will get worse before it gets better.

**I do not mean to taint all Katrina evacuees with a broad stroke and to be sure, there was crime before they got here, but many contributed to it.***

[Jeebus]

Well, 7 A.M. is kinda borderline between "unsafe hour" and "safe hour." Now, if that happened at noon...

Now you're just nitpicking. 7am is as safe a time of the day as noon is.

First, SW Houston, as it is lovingly referred to is HUGE. It is the largest geographic area of Houston. I-10 on the north, I-45 to the east, First Colony/Sugarland on the south (and Sugarland is starting to be considered part of SW Houston lately), and out to Dairy Ashford and even hwy-6 according to some on the west. It is a fairly densely populated area as well.

I would modify your definitions of Southwest Houston to say anything south of Westheimer, west of I-610/South Post Oak, north of Beltway 8/West Belfort, and east of Highway 6.

[PureAuteur]

Two murders and another shooting in southwest Houston all within about 12 hours of each other. One was at an outdoor party in Alief.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/11384671/detail.html

http://www.click2houston.com/news/11384670/detail.html

http://www.click2houston.com/news/11384625/detail.html

[Jeebus]

These might be of interest to someone:

In red are all the medium density, multi-family apartment, condo, & mid-rise occupancies.