Seriously, they're desperate people if they are poor, depending on how poor, and low income housing doesn't really fix their circumstance entirely. It doesn't really have to be all of them though, just a few, and their surroundings are going to be a huge temptation. All those rich people have money and stuff, and it's highly likely someone may try to steal it. Most criminals are not bad people, they're just people who don't have many options. Criminals are not usually evil or mentally deranged. They're usually just not very intelligent and very desperate.
There are indeed many rich pension-stealing bastards out there running hedge funds and pyramid schemes, but you'll find very few rich people who will take on some high-risk low-reward crime like breaking and entering because they don't have trouble making enough money to afford something like a flatscreen.
If poor people live "in the next county" they won't have enough money to make a trip to a very rich neighborhood to steal something. Plus, it's a monumental risk. The reason poor people attack their own neighborhood is quite simple: they know it better. You can look in my window and see all the stuff I have in my room, you can't do that if you live two towns over. Crime is highly localized. There's a lot of hyperbolic rhetoric on the news that'll make you think some urban "thug" is going to role up to white suburbia and lay waste to it, but that's simply [probably] not going to happen.
The thing is criminals typically are not unsavory characters, they're usually just as nice as anyone else, sometimes nicer. Most criminals I've known, especially the theives and drug addicts were hardly mean people. In fact almost all of them were overly generous (in part, I think, because they know they habitually rip off their friends and neighbors they try extra hard to gain acceptance) and they all seemed to want to do the right thing. The guy who stole my TV, for example, offered to pay me back (while maintaining he did not do it) - and, ironically, stole the TV to pay another set of people he had ripped off.
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It depends on other demographics as well. Families with young children are less likely to break and enter. IMO it's mostly bored teenagers doing that stuff, because they can and they're bored. Unless the entire neighborhood turns into a gangland overrun with pawn shops, there won't be a place to unload the high screen TVs they steal.
Also, they could have more police activity over there if they really that concerned about it. I live in a downtown area of a small city next to a major street. There is no gate, and I've met some semi-unsavory folks just one block over, and there are cheap strip malls and warehouses, not exactly the most neighborhood friendly. But my street is super-crazy safe. We've ever left our keys in the door accidentally overnight and nothing's happened. There are tons of cop cars patrolling the area.
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What's so hard to understand about this. Rich people generally do not commit pedestrian crimes. Some do, but it's highly statistically improbable that they will. Poor people, on the other hand, frequently need quick money in smaller sums, and they can't steal their money legally via the stock market. They're always going to go for what they know they can get. To put them in a high income neighborhood with lots of nice toys everywhere is like nose-f***ing a fat guy with the smell of apple pie. Once one of them gets behind with someone they need to pay it'll be easy for them to locate a house they can break into with stuff.
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The area most likely is not zoned for low income housing, so honestly, this is probably posturing. He already knows the homeowners would not allow this, so it'll either be gimme my studio or call my bluff.
Families are just as likely to steal, and they don't do it because they are "bored", they do it because they need money and typically only have low paying jobs (if at all).
They'll usually unload it in the community itself for whatever price they can get.
Most likely they don't want that. No upscale community wants a lot of police activity, ironically because many of those rich people have hobbies on the side (like cocaine, marijuana, or just their personal lives in general) that they don't want the cops finding out about.
It's because of the major street. Heavily trafficked areas deter crime naturally, unless it's completely under the radar stuff. Lots of eyes watching the area that are not simply police.I live in a downtown area of a small city next to a major street. There is no gate, and I've met some semi-unsavory folks just one block over, and there are cheap strip malls and warehouses, not exactly the most neighborhood friendly. But my street is super-crazy safe. We've ever left our keys in the door accidentally overnight and nothing's happened. There are tons of cop cars patrolling the area.
Figs, you don't have to say those EXACT words, it's how people read into them that counts. Watch what you say, think about it carefully, then write it down. You need to read before you post IF you don't want people to take something you've said incorrectly...
Statistically speaking serial killers are mostly non-white, lack a high school education, have no discernable motives, very rarely have M.O.s, and usually suffer from mental disorders or have a long history with drugs...oh, that, and they are almost all poor. The reason most people peg "white" as the classic serial killer is because of Hannibal Lector, who, as far as serial killers go, is momental bullsh**. Even the guy who Lector was based on, Albert Fish, was in fact quite stupid.
