In 1960, it was still - no nostalgia here - an age when you could leave your door unlocked even in urban neighborhoods.
Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
The public library is the most dangerous place in town
Those who are complaining about Bombay's law and order should be sent to U.P. and Bihar - only then they will realize how safe and secure Bombay is.
How do you prevent attacks from becoming the very fabric of lived life in a city? Of course it's very easy to say you should be fearless and go about your daily life.
Now 4th street park after dark is dangerous, might get clapped, if you look strange to us
For me, safety is a huge parameter for a city's progress. If your city is safe, it is progressing.
Security here in New York City is still very tight. Hookers in Times Square now are demanding two forms of fake ID.
The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.
Worrisome. It's romanticism, and it's dangerous to have children and students on the street.
Clinton said he feels safe in Harlem. It's the only place in the state Hillary is scared to look for him after dark.
I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
What else is stop and frisk? These neighborhoods are unsafe not because there's not enough cops illegally frisking people. They're not safe because of economic conditions. They're not safe because of all types of things in the government that people like Mike Bloomberg and Ray Kelly should be looking to fix instead of randomly searching kids in the hood. If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there, too.
Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.
The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big wild-animal reservations of Africa, where tourists are warned to leave their cars under no circumstances until they reach a lodge. It is also the technique practiced in Los Angeles.
Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.
You shoot another guy—well, okay, this is Baltimore. You shoot three guys, it’s time to admit you have a problem.
You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.
If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.
In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.
New York is safer than it has been - and it's getting safer. But it's never safe. As the financial and communications capital of the world, this is where terrorists want to make a statement, where they get the most bang for the buck.
He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to be.
The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.
I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together.
I don't think anybody feels safe in Chicago. Bullets ain't got no name on them.
