Newcastle is a great city it's just if you go to the wrong parts, the sink estates. Almost all the cities have bad areas. Remember Sting, (Gordon Sumner) comes from Wallsend where I live, which borders Newcastle. The ordinary folk on the street, you couldn't find more generous or honest people anywhere. A lot of the bad apples were born in the late seventies or early eighties, and come from estates which were built around the same time. Which thankfully have been demolished now. What replaced them are Scandinavian style yuppie houses.
The rot seemed to set in when they stopped corpral punishment, the cane or belt even a cuff round the ear.
That would stop any back answering. Now it's if you touch me I'll have the police on you or me Dad will give you a kicking.
Newcastle has been voted number two in an international poll of party cities just behind Rio Janeiro a couple of times. Also Newcastle is a host city to the Rugby World Cup, the tourists love the city as it's friendly and as a whole safe.
It's meant to be the safest big city in the country.
Just do the same when detecting if you know the area don't push your luck. If your well out in the sticks you should be safer it'll be neutral territory. Not like, what are you doing on my patch.
John.