Only to go to nice restaurants or out of town to beds and breakfasts and musuems. Something to note, location based reddits attract the same people that apps like nextdoor or other weird ones attract for busybodies to post stupid stuff while being inside to much. The posts that make sense or the rest trying to ignore the crazies. Just take a large amount of these with a huge grain of salt, and remember that its likely someone cooped up in their home to much and imagines the outside is a boogeyman because they are denied it due to health, disability, mental health issues, or just a social shut in and remember that playing the reality card does nothing to them.

Ignoring it is the best bet for your mental health in the long run, and letting professionals deal with the social issues that those issues cause.

Edit: That said, be careful downtown at night, a few months back there was a group beating people with baseball bats near parking garages. I think that settled down and was a weird outlier like the knockout game trend, but its to recent to not be healthily paranoid after dark downtown.