Nonsense, if you’re an engaged resident it is somewhat your business.

My family’s safety is more important than some rando’s feelings of acceptance and comfort.

I think domestication has taken the heightened situational awareness out of humans a little too much unfortunately. The fact that some people think it's wrong to be concerned about an abnormal presence near your domicile is disheartening.

I think it takes an encounter or two with dangerous people to be reminded of that. My luck with real sociopaths and whack jobs has been poor over the past few years and it’s really put things into perspective. Not everyone abides by the moral or ethical codes we take for granted in society.

Abnormal for you maybe. But you aren't always paying attention, that's not your job. Maybe it's someone going for a walk, maybe it's a neighbors friend. You just don't know.

So what are you going to do to someone walking through a neighborhood? Call the cops because someone is walking through a definitely public place?

If you witness an assault, yea go ahead.

Most people live in a tiny circle revolving around their place of living and their work-place. If we probably tracked every single human in a city, I would hypothesize that we'd find that a high-percentage of those that regularly "stray" out of those two areas in odd times, into places that are drastically different socio-economically than their own, are actually committing crimes.

It's quite unfortunate that we've gotten to a point whereby some rather nebulous terms such as "freedom of movement" ha gotten in the way of crime-prevention.

For all we know, keeping people from committing crimes by removing their ability to would actually keep them honest and force them to improve their lot. Unfortunately, it's an uncomfortable conversation that touches on police-state territory, so we probably won't have it in the public eye any time soon.

It's also quite unfortunate that you think that would solve anything. It's also quite unfortunate that you are only thinking of one type of crime in your assessment.

It's unfortunate that you don't even want to consider if it might solve anything. That's why we can't have nice things, and we're forced to live in a broken society with broken homes spanning generations.