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Psilynut2 said:
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Those fucking gates aren't stopping criminals, I promise you. What they ARE stopping is couriers. Aside from that, all they do is alienate people from their neighbors, which probably makes them more likely to be robbed. When you put a gate up, it says "I've got shit to protect", and it also says you're dumb enough to think a gate is protecting it.
What about criminals cars ? Do they stop those ? You may be able to hop the gate and kick in my door only to find out I have some really cool shotguns , your car will still be outside by the gate though , a long way from your corpse .
You live in a gated community? 
You would! 
If someone shows up to rob your house while you're home, they deserve to be shot. You don't rob a place without doing some homework first! Anywayyys... I'm sure you're a real tough customer. If there's one thing I've learned about tough guys in my life, it's that they are usually quite easily outsmarted.
One thing is for certain, gated communities create an obstacle for police/fire trucks, and negatively affect response time.
I started a thread about this a few months back, and Christopera made some insightful responses. He seems to know a lot about this subject:
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christopera said: I agree that gated communities are a political thing. They should be outlawed.
That said, gated communities with one large fence around several housing units are the least safe. Those with the large gate and the individual gates are on par with no gates. There is quite a lot of information about this in numerous urban geography study's. A lot of developers love the idea of gated communities. It is a cheap way to upsell a property because most people feel safer with a gate even when in many cases they actually increase crime. Fences and gates are relatively cheap. Gated communities tend to be a lot less community oriented, as you might tell by the fact that they are trying to avoid the community, and that overall reduces willingness to monitor the surroundings, self police, etc.. Also, rich people are afraid they might be less rich, while poor people don't have much to lose. It's why a lot of poor people are more charitable than the rich.
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christopera said: It's usually easier to commit crime when 1) people have a presumption that crime is lower, meaning people aren't vigilant, and 2) when the property/people is separated from the community at large meaning others aren't available to be vigilant.
Put this in the context of the American police force. How often do the police stop crime while it is in progress? Probably a fraction of a single percent, the rest of the time they just react. What really prevents crime in good communities is the ability for the community at large to police their space. No police needed. Many gated communities are simply walled off from access to the greater community, and thus do not benefit from that self policing. Instead they rely on a fence/wall/gate and sometimes a private police force. Of course there are many types of gated communities, so you can't get too crazy trying to make distinctions without writing a huge paper. Anyways, there is very little proof that gated communities are actually safer, and in many cases they are worse. However, they provide the perception of being safer, and people of course want that. Climbing a fence, or cutting a whole in it, or driving around the gate, isn't exactly rocket science. Just like busting a window and climbing through it isn't hard. That's why having good community around is generally the safer bet. People tend to pick up on odd behaviors faster than a fence realizes it was climbed.
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