Metrocenter Mall is okay for browsing the mall and window shopping if you are bored. We typically go there and enter from the east side and will stop for a massage, to see Santa ( Christmas season ) and enjoy pretzels. The mall it self is safe as their is visible security and Phoenix Police coming and going. If you enter from the west side ( where the theater is at ) you will go away with a different opinion of the mall because of the clientele ( wannabe thugs and gangsta's ) but to be honest everyone seems to mind their own business and no one really messes with anyone at least not all the times I have visited.