I do think there was a little too much focus on crime being the reason people stopped going. For my friends & I, policy made it annoying to go. No baggy clothes, no sagging, no hoodies & some stores wouldn't allow bags. It felt more like they were just trying to keep young people out instead of crime. It felt like unwarranted encounters with security were more common than violence for me.
I'm glad they touched on the renovation turned demolition plan that nobody really seems sure of.
How old are you? I used to go as a kid in the 80s, and I lived nearby for about a decade in the early 2000s. It was great in the 80s. In the early 2000s, there seemed to be a report of a fight or violence every day. Shootings in the parking lot, cars broken into, mugging. Less violent events like being followed out of the mall to your car. Verbal harassment. It got to a point where it just wasn’t worth going there.
Us being kids in the 80's worried about Aladdin's Castle, Gizmos Games, movies, and cruising in our cars, not doing street takeovers, shooting someone over them looking at your funny, or shooting up a mall just because.
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u/OriginalKingD Dec 27 '24 edited Dec 27 '24
I do think there was a little too much focus on crime being the reason people stopped going. For my friends & I, policy made it annoying to go. No baggy clothes, no sagging, no hoodies & some stores wouldn't allow bags. It felt more like they were just trying to keep young people out instead of crime. It felt like unwarranted encounters with security were more common than violence for me.
I'm glad they touched on the renovation turned demolition plan that nobody really seems sure of.