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Weinland Park was never Bexley, but it has markedly deteriorated in the year that I have lived here. (Thankfully, my daughter and I will be moving to Old North at the beginning of October.)
In just this past weekend, there was another house fire (probably set) on N. 5th St., and this afternoon I was mugged for a second time. (This comes a week after my house was broken into--two laptops and a Wii game set were stolen.) I was mugged on E. 6th Ave. while in the provocative and menacing act of walking to Kroger. The kid did it in broad daylight, and only got $7 off me, but he feels so secure in mugging that he never looked to see whether the police were around, or whether someone was filming him or calling 911.
I am not even bothering to report this mugging. The "added police presence" in Weinland Park is a myth--there is more substantive evidence for the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. The police have shrugged their shoulders at crime in the neighborhood. The Weinland Park Civic Association considers mugging and burglary to be legitimate forms of performance art, and they have done little to increase police presence or to form Neighborhood Watches or anything other than the most superficial Band-Aid solutions. (I have never understood why Godman Guild and other agencies waste energy on combating truancy in schools. "Who benefits from a 35% daily truancy rate?" they ask. Uh, the kids who want to learn and do well in school? That's who!)
I am looking forward to moving to Baja Clintonville. A person's home is their castle, but there it won't be a fortress in constant peril of invasion and bombardment. I regret ever buying into the myth that Weinland Park is the next up-and-coming neighborhood.
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