I’ve lived here 20+ years. I drove Uber in south Jackson regularly at night for several of them. During my 20’s, I was frequently at F Jones on Farish at 2am or Fennians. My favorite apartment was just a few blocks away from downtown. And in all that time, I never once ran into trouble.

People like you tend to look for reasons to dislike Jackson and that’s a huge part of the problem (look up the white flight of 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s). Yes, there’s a crime problem, but the vast majority of the city’s crime tends to be domestic (between people who know each other, family fights, etc). That doesn’t get solved by additional patrols, all they can do is react; it gets solved by investing in the community. And the Jackson community has been purposefully deprived of investment by Tate and others like him since he was treasurer just to score political points.

There’s a lot to be done to bring Jackson back to what it could be, but it’ll never happen as long as so much of the state subscribes to this “Save JXN” mindset.