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> I will not go to a mall that has 6 shootings a year.

Agreed, a mall needs to be up around 12 shootings a year to even be considered these days.

' const mallsIMightGoTo = mallsInMyArea.filter(mall => mall.shootings_last_year < 6) ... '

I suspect violence is not the cause of the demise of those malls, but one of many symptoms of the root cause.

Malls generally have retailers that are more expensive than big box or strip mall alternatives. Lower income neighborhoods have both more violence and more residents with a preference for value pricing.

The mall near where I grew up suffered from that problem 50 years ago, and was shut down by the late 1970s...

And was finally demolished in 2012.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Square_Mall

I'd argue it was actually demolished in 1980[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIdGxR-aU6o

I didn't want to assume Chicago or Detroit, but wiki says Dixie mall is in Chicago. Timeline matches my preconceived ideas.

We had way more violence at malls in the 90's when malls were far more popular.

'Were'

That's the thing with decline... Something WAS good until it wasn't.