One of the posters (New Pal Boiler) said "they have got to get the crime/homelessness thing figured out", so it was not I who tied them together. And frankly your obsessing about "violent crime" is misinformed, because if you look at the distribution, it's spread out all over the city, but mostly on the east side or south of 38th Street, as well as other areas that are more impoverished, sadly. Downtown is not unsafe, as I have lived there for years and I've gone out more during those years than most will visit in their lifetime, and yet I've never had any issues with violent crime.