Crime at airports

[benderandfry 0]

Does anyone know how to deal with the crime surrounding airports.  Each time I add one the crime increases, and even adding a police station doesn't help.

[Spinmaster 75]

Ironically, it's not the airport (nor any of the other oversize lots) that are the problem - it's the police stations. More specifically, the radius for the patrol cars, which is one of the unique properties for police stations, intended apparently to simulate how far away from the cars the police can patrol on-foot. For the Maxis stations if I recall correctly it's effectively set to only about 3 tiles. Which means any lot that extends more than 3 tiles away from any road - the airport, for example (the university is another famous example) - can't be fully protected. I think there are some custom stations that already have this adjusted.

[Jezus53 18]

You can read it here. It's an interesting article about how the larger lots in SC4 have a problem with crime and a very good explination about it.

[toll_booth 0]

Bump. Is there a mod to fix this?

Also I have problem with crime on golf courses, presumably because of their size, although rarely as bad as the airport.

[spaced5 1]

I wonder if one were to have roads tunneling under these crime prone structures in such a way no tile within the structure would be more than 3 tiles from the regular roadway or the tunnel paths, whether it would have any effect on crime reduction within the structure.

[SC4BOY 21]

nope.. doesn't help.. either use one of the police station mod's or forget it.. personally I don't think it much matters in game

[toll_booth 0]

It's just annoying and unrealistic.  IRL, airports aren't hotbeds for crime; rough neighborhoods are. 

[ironicepitome 0]

unless u live in detroit, then EVERYWHERES bad, especially the airports

[toll_booth 0]

Originally posted by: ironicepitome

unless u live in detroit, then EVERYWHERES bad, especially the airportsquote>

I try not to let my cities get to that point.

[Bot Terminator 0]

I have some experience with your problem ! Police is only part of your problem.The first thing you need to do is download the RADIUS DOUBLER for your schools,Police,fire,ect...... found here www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm=13696     Or go to the search at simtropolis and type in Radiusdoubler ,mark it entire site and hit go.                                                                                                                                                                                 

  This will HELP GREATLY with the radius of your police stations,my station is not even close to the airport.

Next this is the most important of all! If your airport is too long a commute for both workers or COMMERSE,especially commerce business will be LOW and cause problems.SO keep the airport close to lets say 40 tiles away from your nearest COMMERCIAL district and you want a STRAIGHT driving path from commerce to Airport no turns if possible and the commuters will love you.Keep building your COMMERCIAL  UP,UP,UP ! Remember the airport thrives on the commercial.Infact my particular city Im useing has no INDUSTRIAL.

One finale note:This works so well for me,I actually put the airport in my city before i started anything,and if your wondering about air pollution it is compleately surrounded by trees,I do this with the flora in god mode before starting the city.

[local_authority01 3]

There are a couple of police stations over at SC4 devotion that help solve this problem by enlarging police dispatch radius. If you can't fix it yourself with the iLive Reader you should check out these files. I actually downloaded them both today. The SBFT CID HQ, and a Large Police Station by mattb325.

[dandan550 2]

If I remember, try to use a NO CRIME mod. It is useful... But.