Why is it a strange signifier that a police officer living next door and a park where kids are openly playing implies it's a nice neighborhood that you might enjoy living in?

it's like saying it's a strange signifier that you would avoid a neighborhood with homeless walking down the street pushing carts and empty syringes laying around the sidewalk.

Neither of those seem strange conclusions and I posit that if you can't understand that it says more about you than anything else.

and yes, I've been shown houses in neighborhoods like that, and no, I didn't move in.