re: Growing gang problem in Knoxville

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Jeez, based on my limited experiences in Knoxville with an SO who went to Bearden and fmaily is in Farragut, I'd no idea there were even "bad areas" in Knoxville. 

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Bearden and Farragut are considered the burbs more than anything. Out of the 2, only Bearden has part of it's zoning actually in Knoxville city limits. All of Farragut and part of Bearden would be considered Knox county.

The rougher parts of town are all almost entirely going to be within city limits. Everything East of Downtown, almost everything on the western section of the inner city (Ironically enough these are the two big areas constantly shooting at each other) and pockets of North and South Knox proper. The East side is made up mostly of Blood sets and the Western section of the inner city are made up of crip neighborhoods. Thats why most of the shoot outs lately have been happening between kids from these 2 parts of the city.

Out of the 13 public HS in Knoxville, 4, maybe 5 pull kids from the inner city or parts of town that are rough or have tracts of Public housing/projects located in their zoning. Austin East, Fulton, Central and West (Central & West being kind of a mixed bag -- pulls from good and bad areas of the city) You might be able to add South Doyle to that list due to their zoning pulling kids from the Montgomery Village projects and Vestal area (Which isn't terrible). South Doyle typically isn't lumped together with the 4 HS I mentioned above though.

Then you have West Knox (Bearden, Hardin Valley, Farragut, and Karns) and parts of North (Powell, Halls, Gibbs, and Fountain City) which seem like another world away.