i dont think tacoma is near as bad as it used to be, it used to be fukked up when i was growing up and lived there. I remember so many crimes, like when a couple white kids got chained to a fence on the hill and beat, one to death iirc. The roaming bands of 10-14 year olds who put all those people in the hospital and beat Eric Toews (who i knew) to death, that asian gang shooting in the karaoke bar where 5 people got killed with fully auto weapons, and i remember 3-4 young girls getting killed and dumped in parks while growing up and this dad, like 4 blocks from my house freaked out and killed his kids with a hatchet and tried to kill his wife. I remember when you would hear gun shots almost every night on the hill.. but rarely hear sirens. Oh and when the chief of police who beat his wife and then ended up shooting her and then himself. the apartment manager who robbed/killed tenants and tried to cut them up with a chain saw and decompose them with lye in his apartment. and of course ted bundy is from tacoma and the beltway snipers lived in tacoma and stole the gun they used in tacoma. thats just off the top of my head.. . Its not a big city but it used to be pretty ghetto.