I expect that is true, but that is true of a President pretty much anywhere. I'm sure the Secret Service has reached a clear understanding with the street captains of that area.
Wisdom embraces a wide variety of circumstances, including why youre where you are in the first place. There may be excellent reasons to tread into danger, but larks are not among them.
"Larks" are among the primary motivation of well to do young white girls. Sensibility is not usually something of which they have an abundance.
“Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline shall drive it far from him [her].”
Sometimes people have to learn through bitter experience, or the bitter experience of others. I’m no exception, though I have not fallen in with illicit drug dealers or been murdered by them (obviously).
This is a messy world. We can not make it fundamentally neat. We can only impose a modicum of order.