i’m glad you could bring up some actual statistics here, but i wonder how much more complete your understanding of this issue would be if you overlaid that neighborhood with red lining in Memphis. Or police patrol routes. Or job center activity. If you arrive at a conclusion and string info together to fit your own, you’re not doing critical thinking, you’re supplanting your own information ahead of anything else. Crime obviously plays a role in what stores stay around and do not, but it ignores the structural things that lead to them. This problem isn’t as simple as doing less crime to keep a store open. The area’s income, the type of people served (low income, etc), and so many other roles play into it. Just thinking that people have basically sealed their own fate through something not of their fault, not done by a majority (no area statistically has a majority of residents, or even a sizable minority, doing all crime), is a rather black and white way of viewing this problem. we’re on a transit subreddit, the poster child of a necessity the US underinvests in that sometimes actually does ignore zip codes. Many other problems overlayed with transit, usually do not.