For sure it’s not anywhere near as bad as Chicago! But if one had to designate the city’s “high crime” area, that would be it...at least in my experience.
That is true. I’ll just say I was never afraid to go anywhere in South Tucson. The people were all nice as can be. I wasn’t always happy when my boys played ball against them because maybe they were prone to making questionable calls that favored their boys. But I never feared gunfire or hijacking or bombs in South Tucson. That is not to say that such did not occur when I was not around.
I will say that the worst thing that happened when I was in Tucson was on a day when I was in South Tucson. It was early morning. One of my boys was playing ball. I noticed some helicopters. I noticed some ambulances headed I did not know where. It turned out that there was a mass shooting up the road in the “good” part of town. That was the day Gabby Giffords was shot at a place we sometimes went when we were in the area. (That Safeway roasts green chiles in the fall, and I do love some fresh, roasted chiles.)