Around six years ago in Richmond...some black university student walked into some nightclub in the area, and just accidentally bumped into some gal...slightly spilling her drink. A confrontation occurred, and the university student was killed there in the club. My associate brought this up...he lived down in Richmond and drove daily up to the Pentagon to work.
His wife felt that Richmond was a safer place to raise a family than Fairfax or Arlington....which I questioned at the time.
The general problem in Richmond is a high level of illicit drug usage and general acceptance by majority of residents in the city.
But that Richmond nightclub was a place neither you, your friend nor his wife would ever step foot in.