OMG! Now We Know Why The Streets Of St. Louis Were Empty!

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​OMG! NOW WE KNOW WHY THE STREETS OF ST. LOUIS WERE EMPTY!
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...Continued from yesterday:    
     In my previous post I recounted how during our recent trip to St. Louis my relatives and I found the downtown attractive,

...but empty of humans,

...except for the pods of people we saw at attractions such as the Arch, Union Station and a popular thoroughfare called Washington Street (see previous post www.ailantha.com/blog/a-town-without-people).
​        This lack of the living in downtown St. Louis was a mystery not only to us, but to some of my readers as well who posted comments on Facebook to ponder the emptiness of the St. Louis streets:

       But then one reader posted this eye-opening article from forbes.com:

          Turns out the number one most unsafe city in America is St. Louis, Missouri.  
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    But apparently St. Louis is not only the most dangerous city in the U.S. A site I found called statistica ranked St. Louis the most dangerous city in the world outside of Central America, South America, and South Africa.
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      My friend then nailed the solution to the mystery of the empty streets of  St. Louis:       

      But we, the visitors were, alas, unaware. Mayhaps that was for the best. On the other hand, I expect we should consider ourselves lucky that, as we blissfully wondered the deserted, dangerous  streets of St. Louis, no one made it their business to make us aware.   

References:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2022/02/23/crime-in-america-study-reveals-the-10-most-dangerous-cities-its-not-where-you-think/?sh=25f2e5e47710&fbclid=IwAR076sM38jNZQ30_az6TDvzY8bmyiwUN63rReUz7gHAasMkLKYpMmJEL31w

https://www.statista.com/statistics/243797/ranking-of-the-most-dangerous-cities-in-the-world-by-murder-rate-per-capita/