Los Angeles Crime Declines Improve Compton's Quality of Life

Fear of crime scares of mobile people (human capital) and physical capital (new stores and restaurants) and this creates a viscious urban cycle as the "consumer city" part of a city is destroyed. People spend less time outside and this makes the streets even less safe and this feeds on itself. Fortunately, there appears to be some empirical evidence that this process can reversed. In the LA Times today there is a sunny booster article arguing that Compton, Los Angeles recovers. I wonder if the rap group NWA would agree with the article. The next time I see ICE Cube, I'll ask him.