What is funny is about 2 miles from me there is a large gated community. The homes there are quite large and expensive compared to the surrounding area. Melanie and I have both commented several times how that would be a desirable thing to have being gun owners and all. I clicked the area and the whole place lit up like a Christmas Tree! I was surprised at all of the theft and burglaries in the whole walled in place.
Actually most everywhere you click on shows more crime than you would expect. This is what happens with poor parenting, lousy academics by kids, coupled with a high dropout rate, gangs, drugs, and most everything else on the rise that is no good. Salt it all over with high unemployment, a ton of illegal invaders, and a lenient court system and pretty soon you'll have to keep someone at home all the time. That's what we do 95% of the time now. If you value your stuff you have to protect it. ADT isn't going to do it for you. We've always had crime, but it's a shame it has evolved into this. Bill T.