Because that's bending broken backwards to accept a broken neighbourhood and society.
Where this stops? "Drive-by's are a thing, accept it and just were a bulletproof vest, it's a sensible solution"?
Yes. You are just probably too used to it to notice.
Decades before it didn't happen as often in places it does now (yes, it did happen in other places. No excuse for a neighbourhood to go bad though, e.g. through tons of meth/opioid addicted piling to the crime rate).
In nicer neighbourhoods it doesn't happen still.
In whole countries (like Japan) it's unthinkable.
>Leaving aside small sleepy towns, everyone locks up their house, car, bicycles, and other possessions, even the people complaining about stolen packages
In my place (like in places like Tokyo or Singapore today still) we used to sleep with open windows, and had no problems even living cars unlocked. So there's that.
These seem like reasonable solutions. Why not just do them?
> I literally have video of the dude grabbing shit off my porch, but can do nothing about it.
So what will more surveillance technology do? Maybe the innovation needed is apartment-community style mailboxes or dropboxes where only the mailperson and the tenant can have access, but scaled to single-family-home use.