Over the past several weeks, today explained has been going downtown.

Downtown Seattle.

Drug activity, like when it's spring and summer, you know, when they hang out all night, it's worth.

Downtown Chicago.

Now it just happens anywhere, any time of day.

Morning, night, like it's just way worse.

Philadelphia.

A lot more violent, more homeless people.

And New York City.

I see a lot of people just going and grabbing people's bags, hitting them.

It's like they don't care.

One through line in all these cities?

Crime.

The number one barrier that we heard from people was that fear of crime was what was preventing them from going downtown,

particularly within the Central Business District itself and on their commutes there.

Americans are scared of their downtowns.

But should they be?

We're going to find out today in the penultimate episode of our city limit series.

When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can't always go downtown.

Today explained Sean Ramasfer and we didn't just randomly decide to hit downtown Seattle,

Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York City.

We went there because we knew we'd have some data.

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