The Safety Concerns in Center City

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Sherry Williams: Why does it feel to people like downtown American cities are more dangerous than they are? Hannah Hall: It's because we're coming out of the pandemic and we're seeing the nature of how people use downtown districts shift. The visibility of unsheltered homelessness has increased in downtown because there's less activity on the street, she says. Writers: People who experience homelessness are more likely to be victims of crime than to perpetrate them.

Americans aren’t going downtown like they used to, and a lot of them say it’s because they don’t feel safe there. Today, Explained got the data to untangle crime facts from crime feelings.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette with help from Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Additional help from Patrick Smith and Vivian McCall.

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