Compared to where we use to live, Jacksonville, Florida, where we live now there is literally no crime. Population is fairly dense here, but not nearly as big as in Jacksonville. We definitely don't have the crime that Denver has.........thank God!! When was the last time anyone on this forum seen vehicles in parking lots with their doors unlocked, windows down and the people shopping in a store? We don't have a lot of that, but do have some.
I live in a town of about 5000. I leave my doors unlocked when I leave unless I know I'll be away all day. We don't have a town.newspaper to read about crime. The closest radio stations don't report local crime. It's very quiet here. I like it.
Funny how most folks possessively claim their own areas are free of crime compared to other surrounding areas. In my friends' case, Charlie and Sandy, outside of Chicago, Sandy vehemently denied that any crime could occur in her neighborhood......until the recent rioting carried over to a Best Buy Store 4 blocks from her home, in which the store was looted and destroyed. She was incensed, but still claimed it could never happen again! Frank
How about when crime happens in one area and the criminals come from another area? That's what happened in St. Augustine area, which was south of where we lived. The St. Johns Sheriff stated that criminals were traveling to St. Augustine, from the northside of Jacksonville, to do crime. Those that were caught/arrested, were from Jacksonville.
As it is in Portland, if it isn’t being prosecuted, it’s not a crime so go ahead the finish ransacking the city. Now, where we live, the hookers are still hookin’, the druggies are still drugin’, the robbers are still robbin’ and the police are still policin’.
Every night? Where on earth do you live? Then again, that's the way it seem when we lived in Jacksonville, Florida.......every night.
To answer the larger question of crime, Millinocket is a town where nearly everyone was once employed by a paper company that is no longer in operation. We're not on a major traffic or shipping route and, since Obama declared national monument status to a large area around us, we're inundated with non-profits dedicated to ensuring that we have no industry. The problem is that neither the national monument nor the non-profits do much, if anything, to contribute to the town's economy, and even their employees are imported from elsewhere. The result is that pretty much everyone living here is either retired, on the public dole, or unemployed with no legitimate source of income. Millinocket is too far away from a larger city for people to commute. We have a few retail businesses, medical facilities, and a school district, as well as a few people who have had the mental and financial resources to go into business for themselves, generally in some type of craft, and maybe I'm not the only one who earns at least a semblance of an income online. Subsequently, we do have crime. Burglaries are up, I think, since the mill closed. When someone is arrested, it's almost always someone under the age of twenty-five, and often barely into their teens. Our most prolific burglar is about fourteen years old and less than five feet tall. He looks twelve. I hired him to mow our lawn a couple of times, while he was probably casing the place. His name is in the paper every few weeks. I don't know if it's the larger percentage but at least some of our burglars were captured, not by the police, but by individuals, particularly when it's a house that's being burglarized. Although we have a police department, we don't have much of a police presence, as I've mentioned in another thread, so there is probably more of this going on than I know of. Other than that, in any place where you have a lot of people who aren't working, we have more drug use and alcohol abuse than we used to have, I'm sure, particularly since the shut-down. Domestic abuse follows, and I hear some of that. However, I don't think very many people would be concerned about walking around town at night. We don't have a lot of violent crime.