- Joined
- Dec 4, 2004
Interestingly, on the news tonight, Spokane is hosting a major volley ball tournement and a major women's basketball tournement this weekend and the local news talked about personal saftey of visitors. The people who stand to make money off the visitors (like restaurants) have demanded a good police presence downtown and Spokane is pulling out all the stops...uniformed and plain clothes officers, K-9 units and gang units will be everwhere. I have seen this at many skating events and it always has been a good investment for the communities to make the visitors feel safe. I bet Detroit does a great job at SA.
The downtown area is perfectly safe during the day and so is the people mover. There is a big police presence whenever an event is going on, people go around in groups, everything is well-lighted and covered by security cameras. (In fact, Detroit residents complain that in these hard economic times the police department is so diligent in patrolling downtown entertainment venues that there are not enough police deployed in residential neighborhoods.) I go down there all the time, and ride on the people mover, and I never feel uncomfortable.
Walking around at night, just find some other people to walk with and use the common sense that you would anywhere. The sides streets are pretty much deserted at night.
There is a cool entertainment district called Greektown nearby (maybe a little too far to walk) with a lot of great medium-priced ethnic restaurants.