Muggers need low traffic, but not no traffic. One neighborhood I lived in had so little traffic I felt perfectly safe. It was an area criminals went to flee a

Muggers need low traffic, but not no traffic. One neighborhood I lived in had so little traffic I felt perfectly safe. It was an area criminals went to flee after their crimes, not to commit crimes. Amusingly, I'd run into more film crews than any other sort of people out walking. The neighborhood made for a good scene background. In contrast, the college student slum near my university had high foot traffic. From my biased sample, I estimated that 1/10 student residents of that neighborhood were mugged in a 4-year period.