I live downtown and go there to relax and have drinks every weekend. I live on 5th St (on the other side of Red Cross) and have never had any issues walking home alone or with friends. THe crime situation in DT has been trumped up way to much by mostly residents of Wilmington who live nowhere near downtown. Has there been crime? Of course there is and will be, but not to the alarmist level that some would have us to believe. (consensual bar fights do not count as crime in my opinion)