Do people in the West Midlands feel safe on their streets?

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With Police and Crime Commissioners set to be scrapped amid rising concerns about crime and safety, we asked people in the West Midlands how safe they feel where they live — and what changes would make them feel safer.

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00:00No, I get concerned about walking around later on at night.

00:05As I say, you never see police knocking about.

00:08And there's quite a bit of crime where I live.

00:12Coming into the city, 100% needs to be policed.

00:15Without a fail, I'm 50 years of age

00:18and over the time I've just watched it deteriorate

00:21because policing isn't on the street.

00:23Don't feel safe at all on the street.

00:25Don't feel safe in Wolverhampton,

00:27but we live outside of Wolverhampton, which is a little bit different.

00:32In the city centre, I wouldn't.

00:34In the city centre, I wouldn't.

00:36Rarer going, yeah.

00:38I mean, we said we used to go quite regularly most weeks into the city,

00:42but now I could count on one hand in a year how many times I do that.

00:46Don't even feel safe going up there shopping during the day.

00:49So then again, there's not a lot of shops open.

00:53Yeah.

00:54And there's a lot of people sleeping rough

00:57and it's intimidating because there's no police.

00:59There's no police.

01:00There's no police.

01:01There's no police.

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