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hmmmbut5 karma

This is really interesting. Also live in the PNW, in a more urban area I guess? We have what I'd classify, based on the post above, as an "A" mall and maybe a "E" mall, "E" being like an experience mall.

Our local mall is an "E" mall. It has an indoor kids play area to drop your kids, several shops where you can create stuff (Creatively Yours, where you paint pottery), a huge food court with live music, climbing walls, a farmer's market. Plus they have craft stores and a movie theater. And a library branch, and a town hall branch. To say it's booming is an understatement. It's always busy. It's so busy you have to wait for the restrooms at times. You can't find a table at the food court.

The fancy mall nearby has bowling, movies, and very fancy stores. Definitely an "A".

Unrelated: I have never seen a Hobby Lobby in the PNW. I thought we only had JoAnne's and Michael's.

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Are you considering looking at any other areas? I know in Seattle they have tried to really reduce shootings by police officers, and we should soon have more data thanks to bodycams. Are you planning to study cities and states with different approaches to the Florida approach? How would you go about getting data, and do you think you could produce a comparable data set?