LogFAQs > #967191951

adjl posted...

This is something a lot of people struggle to understand. Outside of really extreme cases, the odds of being personally victimized by crime (especially serious crime) are generally fairly low, so differences of even an order of magnitude often aren't overly meaningful in terms of personal well-being. That's not to say walking alone at night through a bad part of town is going to be a good idea, but it does mean being paranoid about relatively small increases in crime rate isn't particularly reasonable.

Spoken like someone who hasnt lived it lol. If you live in a REAL low income neighborhood, crime affects you every fucking day of your life.

I've been on both sides of the spectrum. It's the exact reason I have no compassion for the lower class.