Do you lock your door?

Do you lock your door?

  • Yes

    Votes: 28 100.0%

  • No

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    28
I grew up in a very small farm town, and we never locked our doors when I was growing up. We didn't start locking our doors until after a double murder took place here in 1998. I have a few friends here that still don't lock their doors, but I always do. I can't sleep well at night if I don't lock the doors before going to bed. I also can't sleep with my bedroom door open.
 
Skanky Vamp said:
I never lock my car doors. What's the purpose?
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Considering I envision your car looking like this

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It’s not as though there’s much to steal
 
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MiaththeRed said:
Probably because small towns and the like don't have the media output or population densities that cities do. People congregate in cities, always have since we invented them.
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Small population sizes can also skew results. The murder rate is usually expressed in murders per 100,000 residents. As of 2022 there were 333 cities in the USA that were 100K or bigger.

Smaller towns usually wrap everything up into the violent crime rate, so murder, rape, robbery, etc. are presented as one number so it's hard to find info on murders specifically. But for really small towns one incident can drastically change the numbers. Take a town with 1000 people. Parent A snaps and kills their 3 kids and parent B. Translated over, that would be a murder rate of 400 per 100,000 people. By comparison, the 100K+ city with the highest murder rate in 2022 was St Louis at 66.07 (or about 1/6th the murder rate of our hypothetical).

So I can see what Nightshade is saying. 2 murders in recent years may or may not be a lot depending on population, but If it was two incidents of someone killing their partner, parent, etc. then i can see why some aren't so worried.

Heck, in 2018 4 cities with a population of over 100K had NO murders: Irvine, CA; Naperville, IL; McAllen, TX; Allen, TX (and yes, I'm as surprised as the rest of you that two of them are Texas cities, and I live here).

Edit: Incidentally, in 2017 Family was responsible for 12.3% of murders, Other Known (paramours, neighbors, friends, co-workers, etc.) were responsible for 28% of murders, and stranger was responsible for 9.3% of murders. 50% were Unknown (by which we mean that they don't know who committed the murder, not that the victim was killed by someone unknown to them).
 
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Plasma said:
It’s not as though there’s much to steal
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Just figure that if someone wants to steal your car, or something out of your car, a locked door won't make a difference. Learned that the hard way.
 
Skanky Vamp said:
Just figure that if someone wants to steal your car, or something out of your car, a locked door won't make a difference. Learned that the hard way.
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Locks, etc. are designed to increase the risk to reward ratio. Almost no one believes they will actually eliminate the problem, but it might decrease it.

If a car is locked (and let's assume windows are up) then I have to break into the car to steal from it. That increases the possibility that someone sees or hears something. Alarms also increase this, since the alarm going off MAY* get people to look. Same is true for houses. Most house locks won't stop someone who wants to get in no matter what, but it may increase noise. Heck, a study done by University of North Carolina in 2012 discovered that security system SIGNAGE made a place less likely to be robbed (so you didn't need the actual system, just the sign).

* One of our neighbors had a motion alarm on their car that would go off constantly every time the wind gusted at all. Neighbor refused to do something about it, and one night someone in the neighborhood bashed open the hood and destroyed the alarm. No one has stepped forward to say they saw a thing.
 
Kendar said:
If a car is locked (and let's assume windows are up) then I have to break into the car to steal from it. That increases the possibility that someone sees or hears something.
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Just depends on where you live. Nowadays locking your car only means that you'll have to replace a window.
 
Skanky Vamp said:
Just figure that if someone wants to steal your car, or something out of your car, a locked door won't make a difference. Learned that the hard way.
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True. If people want to break in, they will. Locks and security measures are only meant to stop crimes of opportunity.
 
I have heard it said that the best security is to be next to something more expensive that has poorer security to whatever you have.
 
NotASlayer said:
I have heard it said that the best security is to be next to something more expensive that has poorer security to whatever you have.
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That works for dating too. Stand next to a minger at the bar and you look better by default.
 
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