We have all seen the discourse on places like reddit or whatever, where even the positive comments about rough neighborhoods is like “just keep your head up, don’t use headphones, pay attention and you will be fine”
Like how much of this is just white people playing out fantasy scenarios in their cop brains? I feel like most of “bad neighborhood” discourse just comes down to
Like sure there are places where you are more likely to get your place broken into or whatever and systemic racism tends to result in certain outcomes but I feel like most places like this are in the minority, and in fact this must be the case or gentrification wouldn’t happen
House robberies are super rare unless people already know what you have in the house and where to find it. Usually drug dealers, occasionally elderly people with scripts but chances are that’s the shithead friends of their pillhead grandson most of the time and not random strangers. Picking houses to break into and rob at random is such a high risk vs potentially low reward. Most people’s valuables are heavy and hard to carry out.
House burglary used to be more common (80s and 90s) because people had stuff that was common, reasonably valuable, light enough to carry, and easy to sell, like stereo equipment and CD collections. Knew lots of people whose houses were broken into while they were at work and had just their CDs stolen. Streaming and the falling price of electronics has made this kind of burglary a lot less common. But I also think most people who were around then haven’t adjusted their expectations.
maybe it’s different where you live, but my experience is the complete opposite
most of the time you would see a house that looked easy, knock on the door to see if anyone is in, then break in, grab games consoles, laptops, games etc.
the only time you would “case the joint” is if you were hitting a business
