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This to an extent true - crime statistics are showing a downward trend in general. However, it cannot be denied that some US cities' downtowns are... not great
by sofixa 2y ago
This to an extent true - crime statistics are showing a downward trend in general.
However, it cannot be denied that some US cities' downtowns are... not great. I was in San Francisco a year ago, and in Los Angeles a few months ago, and I wouldn't want to live in either of those. Mass visible homelessness, visible drug use, etc. are not things people want to see or endure (of course I doubt that the people living through that want it either, in large parts). And I'm saying this as someone living in the Paris area who has visited large parts of the metro area, and knows the "bad" parts around here - it isn't even close how horrifyingly bad LA and SF are.
- some_furry 2y ago> visible drug use, etc. are not things people want to see or endure (of course I doubt that the people living through that want it either, in large parts). This isn't a safety risk in the same way that violent crime is.
- jack_riminton 2y agoAre they not extremely correlated?
- some_furry 2y agoAre they? Or is this a bias? What do the experts say, and what data are they using to base their statements?
- jack_riminton 2y agoI'll let you interrogate the data. But the link is pretty clear and obvious to most https://academic.oup.com/epirev/article/42/1/103/5917211 https://academic.oup.com/epirev/article/42/1/103/5917211
- FredPret 2y agoSome big cities do such a good job managing this. I'm a huge fan of North America in general but US + Canadian cities just don't do a good job with this for some reason. Conservative, liberal, big, small; downtown cores all over North America are doing very poorly. I wonder if it's all down to the opioid crisis over here.
- sofixa 2y ago> US + Canadian cities just don't do a good job with this for some reason. Conservative, liberal, big, small; downtown cores all over North America are doing very poorly. I wonder if it's all down to the opioid crisis over here I think that urbanism, or the absolute catastrophe that Anglophone North American is, is a big part of the problem. People live far away from where they work, and downtowns are almost exclusively offices/commercial spaces. There is little reason to be there outside of working, so, outside of the obvious waste, during economic downturns and/or remote work spikes, there won't be a lot of people there. This leaves lots of abandoned/barely used space for people who have lost their work/housing to go to (the lack of social safety nets, especially in the US, contributes to these numbers).