Longtime residents of Fort Worth’s Wedgwood Square say crime in their area has worsened in recent years, and Fort Worth police haven’t done enough to combat it.
Shootings, assaults and vandalism were once far from the minds of those living in this quaint midcentury neighborhood. Now, incidents like these occur far too frequently for some, who believe vagrancy and crime from surrounding neighborhoods is beginning to creep into Wedgwood Square.
A police official and a City Council member, however, disputed the perception that crime in the neighborhood is on the rise.
A thrown rock was the last straw for one Wedgwood Square resident
At around 7 p.m. on Dec. 20, Amy Wright was driving her Toyota 4Runner near the intersection of Wheelock Drive and Kingswood Drive, just north of Altamesa Boulevard, when a large rock was thrown at her windshield. The force of the impact was such, Wright said, that her windshield shattered, showering the car’s interior with glass…