Sometimes folks have to visit these cities on business—but these problems can be turned into opportunities.
After a recent visit to Seattle (where a homeless person was wandering around the hotel lobby) I took the time to write a email to the hotel manager. I told them this was unacceptable, that I would not be returning to the hotel as a result, and I planned to let everyone I know that the hotel was not a safe place to stay. I also commented on the relevant web sites.
_That_ got their attention—and if enough people did that the hotels would be standing in line in public hearings at city hall to demand action.
If you are not playing offense you are playing defense.
the hotel in Seattle might care, and the downtown business associations.
I guaranteed Seattle and King County politicians will absolutely ignore this.
We just had a shooting in the transit tunnel downtown with 1 fatality and 3 injured. Nobody would really talk about it - the news media forgot to mention race and that they were youths.