Higher unemployment combined with lower city budgets = more temptation towards criminal activity with less cops on the beat. The natural result is a rising crime rate re robberies / break-ins / burglaries. The natural reaction is for those who have something worth robbing / stealing to start moving out of the area.
(snip)"Officials from a venture capital capital firm in Mount Vernon have told Mayor Sheila Dixon and other city officials it's moving its offices out of the city because workers do not feel safe because of increased crime.
Louis Citron, general counsel of New Enterprise Associates on St. Paul Street told WBAL News that 35 employees will move to a site in Timonium in mid-December.
Citron notified city officials of the company's decision to move in an email Thursday.
Citron told WBAL News that the decision was not made lightly, but that a number of employees had been the victims of car break-ins, and one employee was robbed at gunpoint recently.
He added that none of the employees were seriously hurt in any of the incident. He said most of the break-ins were in cars parked in parking garages.
Citron said the crimes occurred over a number of months, but there had been an increase recently.
"Employees started saying we don't feel real secure walking to an from our cars to the garages, and we decided it was time to make the move," Citron told WBAL News"(snip)
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I wonder how the same sort of scenario is beginning to play out for customers of strip clubs located in similar areas ?
I also wonder about the potential 'vicious cycle' being established. As more and more businesses and their relatively high paying jobs / highly paid employees migrate out of the cities to (supposedly) escape the effects of rising crime, this results in less economic activity and tax revenue for that city ... which in turn means fewer profits / jobs at local businesses as well as even fewer cops ... which in turn increases the odds that crime rates will rise even higher ... which will motovate even more businessas and their relatively high paying jobs / highly paid employees to leave !!!
On the other hand, rising crime rates could also merely be a convenient excuse for businesses to escape rising city taxes / regulations / costs of doing business in favor of lower cost suburbs.
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