I worked with a nun in OTR for 10 years. She felt completely comfortable walking the streets, so I took a cue from her, and I never encountered a problem.
OTR was never really as dangerous as people hyped it to be. It's had a few problems with crime, but the media always made it sound worse than it really was. They also failed to mention that a lot of the drug-related and other crimes in OTR were committed by folks coming in from the suburbs. These days gentrification is changing the demographic, but the crime rate began dropping before that.
