Lakewood, Washington SperlingViews

Lakewood, lakewood, LakeHood! I have lived here my entire life, and it has some of the worst and best neighborhoods in the state. From the gang/drug/crime areas of chocolate city, lakeview, tillicum,etc. to the rich/quiet/safe neighborhoods of oakbrook, gravelly lake, etc. but sadly i have happened to lived in the bad parts, so my personal experiance of the city is this: It was poor and full of crime, cheap motels, n strip clubs, b4 it was incorporated in 96, now its still full or crime, cheap motels, strip cluss,but they just make u pay more to live here!for a "suburb"...pretty bad. average murders per year are 10, tacoma 17, which is bad since tacoma is an urban city n lakewood about 1/4 the population aka lakewood #1 murder rate city in pierce county.Compton, ca averages 10 murders a year as well,haha. but again there are very quiet, nice parts as well, so ppl that grew up in those parts might have a very different perspective than mine.

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re: Lakewood in my eys - 10/17/2009 - 11/28/2009
acualy compton averages around 50 murders a year and thats pretty crazy for a city with a pop of 96000 and seeing how portland/seattle only average around 30-40 a year but lakewood is a interesting place you can be in a straight gang bangin neighborhood drive a couple min and bee in a nice suburban neighborhoods. alot of lakewood is just as bad as tacoma lakewood is the hood so if your lookin for suburbs dont move to lakewood or ne where in the 253 go some where in the 425 area code lol

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lakeHood - 10/17/2009

lakewood(chocolate city, lakeview, eastside,tillicum/woodbrook,lakecity) all crime drug and gang filled areas. very high murder rate for a suburb..and there are way too many cheap motels for prostitutes n junkies.but has sum nice areas,lol[read more...]

Lakewood in my eys - 10/17/2009

Lakewood, lakewood, LakeHood! I have lived here my entire life, and it has some of the worst and best neighborhoods in the state. From the gang/drug/crime areas of chocolate city, lakeview, tillicum,etc. to the rich/quiet/safe neighborhoods of oakbrook, gravelly lake, etc. but sadly i have happened to lived in the bad parts, so my personal experiance of the city is this: It was poor and full of crime, cheap motels, n strip clubs, b4 it was incorporated in 96, now its still full or crime, cheap motels, strip cluss,but they just make u pay more to live here!for a "suburb"...pretty bad. average murders per year are 10, tacoma 17, which is bad since tacoma is an urban city n lakewood about 1/4 the population aka lakewood #1 murder rate city in pierce county.Compton, ca averages 10 murders a year as well,haha. but again there are very quiet, nice parts as well, so ppl that grew up in those parts might have a very different perspective than mine.[read more...]

lakewood 4 life 253!!! - 10/17/2009

Lakewood, lakewood, LakeHood! I have lived here my entire life, and it has some of the worst and best neighborhoods in the state. From the gang/drug/crime areas of chocolate city, lakeview, tillicum,etc. to the rich/quiet/safe neighborhoods of oakbrook, gravelly lake, etc. but sadly i have happened to lived in the bad parts, so my personal experiance of the city is this: It was poor and full of crime, cheap motels, n strip clubs, b4 it was incorporated in 96, now its still full or crime, cheap motels, strip cluss,but they just make u pay more to live here!for a "suburb"...pretty bad. average murders per year are 10, tacoma 17, which is bad since tacoma is an urban city n lakewood about 1/4 the population aka lakewood #1 murder rate city in pierce county.Compton, ca averages 10 murders a year as well,haha. but again there are very quiet, nice parts as well, so ppl that grew up in those parts might have a very different perspective than mine.[read more...]

Cost of living is higher in a low income area? - 5/9/2008

I have lived in lakewood for 12 years only 2 & a half in Lakecity, the rest in woodbrook. It sickens me that the cost of living is higher in a low income area, no wonder its so hard to survive here. Lakewood was bad before it became a city but now its worse, now they take more money too. The governmental body is worse than the poverty itself.[read more...]

Crime - 6/26/2006

Have lived in a mobile home park here for 5 years. 3 or 4 times a week lowlifes come thru to see what they can steal. We have drug deals going down in several mobiles and the cops can't do anything about it as they don't see it happening. They just ask us for license plate numbers to keep track of the bad guys that way. For 15 years the city of Lakewood was on the show COPS always catching somebody doing something wrong. A few months ago the local tv station did an on camera interview with a Lakewood City Council member stating that COPS was not welcome to film here anymore as it gave the city a bad name. While talking on camera, a cop car goes screaming back with lights and siren going. Move somewhere else, you will be better off for it.[read more...]