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I'm paranoid. There has been alot of crime where I'm at and it's not helping me. And the fact that one of my brothers is a criminal doesn't help either. What do you think I should do? What would you do? What do you think about crime itself?

I can't move from here because I have alot going on. I just need opinions and answers.

To better answer your more personal question, what kinds of crime are you afraid of? In general, the best thing to do is to make sure your living quarters are well-secured and difficult to break into and to never be out alone, especially at night or in secluded areas. For example, where I live we've recently had a woman get raped because she was jogging by herself through the wilderness on a walking trail.

As for crime itself, I think there are many things that shouldn't be crimes if they're not harming others...that's why I support the legalization of marijuana, even though I don't smoke it myself. I think we should be very tough on other crimes though. I'm against capital punishment because there's no way a jury can be 100% correct all the time, but I think we could put our prison population to better use. If they actually had to do something productive, that'd probably be more of a deterrent to crime than just being put in jail and being taken care of. It costs taxpayers in America $30k to $60k to keep a prisoner behind bars as it is, which adds up to over $40 billion a year. Surely that's money better-used elsewhere.

I know it's something of a tangent, but meh.

Get a CCW. I'm not joking. Go through the classes, learn everything you can, practice often, and you'll feel a heck of a lot safer.

I understand that that's not for everyone, so if you want to feel safer, just be more careful about your things, like WM said. Lock your doors when you leave, don't leave valuables in plain sight, simple stuff.

As for your brother, well, if he commits crimes, crimes are bound to happen around him. Even if he just smokes some ganja from time.to time. Possession is still a crime.

Having said that, use the FBI's UCR reports (if you're in the US) to see what kind of crime.is going on in your neighborhood. You'll probably be surprised at just how low it is. Violent crime has been decreasing for about 10 years in every corner of the US. You're much safer than you probably feel.

Well, so far I know of murder, shootings, robbery, rape, and drugs that have gone on around here. But I will take those suggestions into mind. Thanks.

People are so deathly scared of crime, but the truth is 95% of crime won't look for you if you don't look for it. I think it's a symptom of the media blowing out of proportion crime stories because that's what's sell, so they have the impression that they live in a very dangerous world and are scared for their safety.

So if you don't want anything to happen to you, just don't look for it. I don't have to carry a weapon or even lock my doors. I just make it so few people outside of those I trust even know I exist. That's the best way.