Monroeville Mall (MM) is as safe as any other mall in the Pittsburgh area. The problem is, the media in the area chooses to not mention this fact in their stories. As an example, back in December of 2014, when MM experienced the "teenagers rioting" story, the same type of an event was flaring up the following night at Ross Park Mall. This story was really never addressed by the media. The events of last night were the culmination of some bad decisions made by several people who it would appear made some nice money off of the event. Those people include the event organizer (Avery Anderson), the fraternity that organized it (Phi Beta Sigma), the restaurant (Wingharts), it's owner (Prasad Bandhu) and it's manager for not having the proper number of security there for an event of this size.
To blame this event, that occurred hours after MM was closed for the evening is just foolish.