Not really? I live in a small city of no note. When I go to the store, nothing of note is locked up behind glass. I never get screamed at or hassled by street

Not really? I live in a small city of no note. When I go to the store, nothing of note is locked up behind glass. I never get screamed at or hassled by street people, have to avoid taking a 'bad' street, etc. Nobody here has ever told me to leave my doors unlocked so thieves won't break my windows like that's a normal and OK thing. Nobody has suggested I carry a fake wallet for when I'm robbed. These are real things I've been suggested when visiting a 'real city.' I guess it's a frame of reference thing, or Stockholm Syndrome. Yeah you can point to FBI stats showing less people are murdering each other, that's a fair point. But to an outsider they don't feel anything resembling safe or normal.