Dueling anecdotes then.
But crime is down - maybe share that fact with these people, so you can calm rather than inflame them.
Retailers here in the US.
Ah.
DC is an outlier bucking the crime-drop trend, and Baltimore has long been quite dangerous, followed by Philadelphia.
New York City?
I'm sure you could get quite a range of opinions there.
But overall crime has dropped by 3% in NYC, and by vast multiples of that in areas of serious crime like shooting.
You can incite terror, or you can speak truth.