06-03-2015, 02:21 PM
Part of it is not simply a matter of "kicking out the undesirables". Simply outnumbering them does wonders for reducing the intimidation factor. A sketchy looking guy is more intimidating on an empty sidewalk, than a sidewalk teeming with other random shoppers.
My wife tells me that she still gets the occasional cat-call, or racial epithet. We've still got a little way to go, but that's not to say that downtown is the den of scum and villainy that people seem to remember from the bad old days.
My wife tells me that she still gets the occasional cat-call, or racial epithet. We've still got a little way to go, but that's not to say that downtown is the den of scum and villainy that people seem to remember from the bad old days.