That was just the first paper I found when I searched for gated communities and perceived crime It's a widely studied phenomenon. Here's a paper back in 2000 [

That was just the first paper I found when I searched for gated communities and perceived crime It's a widely studied phenomenon. Here's a paper back in 2000 [1] about "a high-income gated community and a public housing gated community in Orange and Los Angeles counties, California" and the conclusion is basically the same. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00139160021972694 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001391600219726...