When I moved to the DC area at the end of the 1970s, I heard from acquaintances that it's not whether you will be mugged, it's when. My when turned out to be 1983.

I don't think that people think that way these days. Now and then there is a holdup in my neighborhood, but they are rare. There is porch piracy, sometimes cars get broken into.

I would be interested to learn of a city of comparable size that does not have "places you didn't go after dark".