Well, I know first hand and from friends and acquaintances that is has become less safe. The statistics don’t show what’s really going on.

I and others I know don’t go to places anymore where we experienced violence, robbery, and harassment. That doesn’t mean those places are now safe, that they have been taken over by a different demographic.

A friend of mine can’t use the park she lives next to anymore. After she was harassed several times, it’s not safe anymore. Only one case was reported to the police by her, who didn’t do anything about it.

Should she have kept going to the park until something more serious happened that warrants showing up as violent crime in the statistics?