Yea New Castle County is getting pretty bad and some areas are down right dangerous their are areas off Wilton Blvd that I would never go after dark and Lexington Green Apts I wouldn't even go their durring the day. However PA can be just as bad in some areas so its not just DE.
Yeah, there’s no shortage of crime stories on the Philly news, so I wouldn’t consider simply scootin’ across the border to be the equivalent of headin’ into a safe zone.
But, like everyone says – the revolving-door judicial system that we have keeps the streets juiced up with baddies.
That being said, places like Lexington Green, Sparrow Run/Brookmont, Wilton, and the like get a lot of well deserved bad publicity – but they still do not compare to a lot of places in Wilmington. I often hear people jumping to Wilmington’s defense, but these are most often (maybe not always, but most often) people that rarely (if ever) leave the Market-Street-Rodney-Square-banks-Riverfront area – and even then that’s during the day. Anyone that ever spent any time in the Bucket, the Market Street area north of Concord Avenue, or Governor Printz Boulevard – will easily leave their doors unlocked when visiting Brookmont.
But that’s why we carry hand-cannons…