Isn’t it a well known fact that if you live in a sink estate they are often the safest where you can leave your door open etc.? Pretty sure that anyone nicking stuff is known by someone nearby and often families look after each other thereby using almost a local (police) force to keep the areas “safe”ish.
Main problems are mixed areas like Hampstead, one side of the road is ohhh soooo niiiice and the other well dodge.. etc.. etc.. repeat around the country.
On the Farm we lock everything up, it’s near Harrogate and yet the sheds have been burgled 4 times in the last 7 years.. 🙄 What soes that say about “R’ogate, yah”? But we think it was probably (cough) “travellers” 🙄