What makes you feel safe or unsafe in your neighbourhood at night?
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00:00I live in a small village, so it's not as impacted, but to be honest, around Durham there's definitely North Road I'd avoid on a night, sort of further area, I mean, the city centre itself is alright, mostly students, but there's a lot of areas with alcohol, drug abuse.
00:24Lack of lighting, street lighting, without a doubt, yeah.
00:30It's, I wouldn't say it's unsafe, but I wouldn't say it's safe either, because there's been a few nitty gritty crimes there, being like one murder.
00:44I feel like a stronger police presence, to be honest, there's quite a lot of studies to show that the police presence itself, even without them doing anything, can reduce crime, because if you increase the risk of getting caught, the chances of the crime happening are load.
00:59Yeah.
01:00Yeah.