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>Public safety departments everywhere are in denial how absolutely, utterly, batshit pissed off people are about property crime. Someone from SV assumes the wh
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
>Public safety departments everywhere are in denial how absolutely, utterly, batshit pissed off people are about property crime.
Someone from SV assumes the whole world is like SV. Water is wet. More news at 11.
Rampant property crime is basically only a feature of the urban west coast and a maybe handful of cities in the mid-west and east.
I live in an city most SV techies would sneer at and things don't go missing from my porch or the neighbor's porch.
- meroes 5y agoI personally experienced more of my property stolen while living in the Midwest than out West. If it's anecdote time and all..
- bluGill 5y agoIt doesn't matter where you live, young kids will get into trouble. Most places that is limited to kids and they grow up.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThere's a difference between 18yos taking stuff that isn't bolted down and getting your car broken into annually
- skrtskrt 5y agoThe police are useless for both crime prevention and crime solving no matter where you live. > Rampant property crime is basically only a feature of the urban west coast and a maybe handful of cities in the mid-west and east. Surprise when you live near more people, there's more chance you live near a criminal. It's all anecdata. I lived in a remote rural area that had like no property crime for over a decade, then a spate of break-ins. The police do absolutely nothing there too. They supposedly dusted our whole house for fingerprints after the break in and couldn't find a single one, including our fingerprints. Entire house. not a single fingerprint. After receiving federally-sponsored forensics training they publicly boasted about.
- kevinskii 5y ago> Rampant property crime is basically only a feature of the urban west coast and a maybe handful of cities in the mid-west and east. Not quite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
- amznthrwaway 5y agoTop 10 Property Crime Rates by City 1. Myrtle Beach, SC - Property crime rate per 1,000 residents: 112.34 2. Alexandria, LA - Property crime rate per 1,000 residents: 89.64 3. Springfield, MO - Property crime rate per 1,000 residents: 77.93 4. Miami Beach, FL - Property crime rate per 1,000 residents: 75.68 5. Joplin, MO - Property crime rate per 1,000 residents: 72.62 6. Hot Springs, AR - Property crime rate per 1,000 residents: 71.76 7. Florence, SC - Property crime rate per 1,000 residents: 66.31 8. North Myrtle Beach, SC - Property crime rate per 1,000 residents: 65.81 9. Monroe, LA - Property crime rate per 1,000 residents: 65.79 10. Spartanburg, SC - Property crime rate per 1,000 residents: 64.89
- majormajor 5y ago> Someone from SV assumes the whole world is like SV. Water is wet. More news at 11. > Rampant property crime is basically only a feature of the urban west coast and a maybe handful of cities in the mid-west and east. > I live in an city most SV techies would sneer at and things don't go missing from my porch or the neighbor's porch. Ironically, this reads like someone in a well-off neighborhood with no idea what happens in other neighborhoods in their non-SV city. Everyone "knew" growing up in middle-of-TX town which parts of town you didn't want to park overnight on the street in, or where you didn't want to leave a bike. Even beyond just reputation, you could often tell by the houses - people didn't put chain link around the front yard and bars over the window just for fun.