Hmm, it's telling me I need to subscribe (?)
http://www.charlottesville.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=25577
This may be of interest and doesn't require subscription. "A Study of Deteriorating Conditions on the Downtown Mall with Recommended Solutions" written no earlier than 2012 (I can't find an actual date in the document.)
I can attest, the conditions were getting really bad down there (as some of the pictures in the document show), but they have turned around 180 degrees in the last few years. There is still crime, no doubt (look up firefight and knock-out game with Charlottesville Downtown Mall and you'll see a few relatively recent incidents), but where there was a time I simply would not go down there late at night for any reason, conditions are such that I now feel comfortable doing so, on the mall itself - not in the surrounding streets.