Despite two shootings reported at Polaris Fashion Place within two weeks, the majority of calls to the three major malls in Columbus are for non-violent crime or are not related to crime at all, according to an analysis by The Dispatch.
Shoppers who were at Polaris following the shootings last month expressed some anxiety about potential incidents in the future.
But The Dispatch analysis of crime records found the incidents of shootings or violent crime at the three largest malls in Columbus — Polaris Fashion Place, Easton Town Center and The Mall at Tuttle Crossing — are low.
An analysis of nearly 4,000 runs involving Columbus police at the three malls between Jan. 1, 2018, and March 18, 2021, showed reports of shootings accounted for 0.2% of all the calls.