Bristolians react to Bristol's 'most dangerous' area - "My husband's bike got stolen out of our apartment's cycle store" - video Dailymotion

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A study by Mo Transport revealed Central Bristol is the most dangerous area in the city based on crime rates.  The city's vibrant hub faces frequent theft, anti-social behaviour and sporadic violent crimes and has an overall crime rate of 336.9 crimes per 1,000 residents annually.   On average, the area experience 204 crime reports per week, with 7 burglaries reported weekly.  We talked to locals in the area to lean how they felt about Central Bristol and the extent they felt safe in the area.

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00:00A study by Mo Transport revealed that the city centre is the most dangerous area of

00:05Bristol based on crime rates. Let's find out how locals feel about the area.

00:10What are your thoughts on the city centre?

00:12Well I hope it's, I mean it feels pretty vibrant today with the music going on. I think it's

00:18very nice, nice sunny day. I don't come very often but it's got everything I need when

00:24I do get here.

00:27I think it's a pretty pleasant place to be. I love this city, I think we're very lucky,

00:31we're very fortunate. In terms of sort of people feeling unsafe I think there's probably

00:38a lot of profiling and like people sort of seeing people who are down on their luck and

00:45struggling and seeing that as something to be scared of as opposed to something to empathise

00:50with and help with. I think a lot of people that are perceived to be unsafe are just

00:56having a really hard time and I think it's really sad that a lot of them are treated

01:00with fear.

01:01For the most part I think it's great. This is the biggest city I've lived in and the

01:06most diverse and vibrant but like I said there have been a couple of incidents like my husband's

01:13bike got stolen out of our cycle store at our apartment which is like in the basement

01:19of our apartment complex so it's like a pretty secure area and that was just this past weekend

01:24and yeah somebody cut through the like U-lock bolt. Anyways, so that happened.

01:33To what extent do you feel safe around this area?

01:38I would say like I feel reasonably safe like just walking around but you know you just

01:45have to keep your head on a swivel I think and pay attention to what's going on.

01:49Well I only ever come in the day so I wouldn't know about any other time. I feel it's fine.

01:56Things are, you can see everywhere's getting a bit more run down, a bit rougher, people

02:00are finding it harder, times are really really hard for people and more and more people are

02:05out on the streets and I think that Bristol as a community has always been a great city

02:12for standing together and not standing apart and I hope that that's the attitude we take

02:17through all this.

Bristolians react to Bristol's 'most dangerous' area - "My husband's bike got stolen out of our apartment's cycle store"

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