Street Safety in Newcastle

Strut Safe has reported an increase in calls to their helpline- do you feel safe walking alone at night?

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00:00No matter where you are, like if it's like a major city, it's never safe really at a night time

00:03What do you think Newcastle's like though?

00:05Newcastle's, to be fair, like I've never, I've never, I've heard like stories and that but like now compared to like London or like Manchester

00:11or anything like that, like up here it's, it is sound but like still like you never get like 100%

00:15No

00:17Do you know?

00:18No

00:18I'm more neutral I think, I mean I don't feel particularly unsafe but don't feel safe either, just very neutral on it

00:25I've never really trusted the police to be fair. I've never, just never really had any like good experiences

00:30I mean I feel like women have it worse

00:32I can back that

00:33Yeah, they're like they're mostly scared-ish to walk alone at night and I feel like it's sometimes a lighting thing

00:41Like loads of places just haven't got street lights but if it's people on the streets it's like

00:47As long as they're not trying to interact with you, not even in like a nasty way but like if they're

00:53Even if they're on the same side of the road as you to be fair

00:55Yeah, like it's intimidating, I know it's different for men and women but