I was running late this morning... left home for the farm at about 5:15

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The predawn light made seeing the nsighborhood possible. Thing is I didn't see what I should have seen
I did see the neighbor's cars one, illegally parked on the street over night, one on the lower apron of the driveway of that residence and one halfway up the driveway.

I didn't really see anything out of the ordinary. That situation is "status quo" for this middle class, almost purely white neighborhood.

After cultivating sweet corn and green beans for 5 hours, for my Veggies for Vets hobby, I came back 55 miles to the edge of the hood, where I sleep at night. It was a police car parking lot.. And one of the city's finest was keen to know what I saw.

I really had seen nothing to help him. I told them what I had seen which was nothing, although it's quite possible the kids the did it were hiding in the cars even as I left. This is a neighborhood of old people, widows, widowers and 80+ folks getting desperate to get out what is now part of the hunting grounds of the "hood". No one has door cams, or car alarms, or guard dogs

Living in "white land" just blocks from the "hood" has never really required that level of concern. After the cop left, the widow from the house next to the car break-in came by asking for help tomorrow and next week to box her household up and drive it 250 miles north so she can get away from "all this". I'll be honest, no one wants to live in a place with a high crime rate. What younger neighbors find acceptable risk is well beyond the tolerance of some old folks who feel they can't protect themselves.