Any guide lines of safe areas and those that need to be avoided ?    

Simple. Avoid incalls in low income housing or apartments area.

Sounds like socioeconomic profiling to me !

Sounds like sane advice to me

i call it how i see it.
your telling me, you feel safe going into a low income apartment with a bunch of people just sitting out smoking weed with nothing good to do?
i'll be worried about drawing some attention to myself and then having them press up on me asking some dumb shit or my car being vandalized.

Several official and unofficial websites track crimes.

What is the scary area in uptown?

I like getting down on the 3rd but could do the same in any precinct. But here is the crime for all of June (27th cut-off date) for the 3rd. You see that they don't include Shotspotter stats in it. One night in June, Shotspotter picked up about 35 rounds in a ten-block area...south. Within minutes  

Ok, I'm not that familiar so might have expanded uptown to what should have been south Mpls.  
For me, that whole area is a cluster fuck and would much rather visit the burbs. In fact, I just have avoid the whole area cuz in my book, it's high risk or higher risk.

Uptown in the middle of broad daylight is arguable safe. Based on observations, I would argue that in the late evening/at night, most people tend to go stay out our around the west of Hennepin in the residential areas near the lake and the restaurants, etc. OR they go out on the main drags like Lake Street (East Bde Maka Ska Pkwy to Lyndale) or Lagoon (from Humboldt to Lyndale) or on Hennepin (from Lagoon to W. 31st St). And they don't really veer from those areas.  

Agreed.  The ability to detect and learn from patterns is one of the reasons that humans made it to the top of the food chain.

They just cancelled the Uptown Art Fair.

Stay away from that shit hole