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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
Here's where I live:
https://mentorsmoving.com/blog/gilbert-az-crime-rate/

The town of Gilbert, Arizona, about 20 miles out of Phoenix in Maricopa County, is one of the largest cities in Arizona. If you’re relocating to the Phoenix metro area and considering moving to Gilbert, you probably have an important question: is Gilbert, AZ a safe place to live?

Gilbert isn’t just safe – it’s one of the safest cities in AZ and the entire country! Gilbert ranked as the 2nd among safest large cities in America based on the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program. It was the only city in Arizona to make the top 15 safest cities in the country.

I have a trucker friend who's sister lives in Gilbert. He stopped one day to visit for two hours, parked his truck along a fairly deserted road and she took him to her house for dinner. He returned to a parking ticket. No semi-trucks can park anywhere in the city, apparently, even if there's no houses around. The ticket was rather expensive, like over $200, IIRC. Semis, it seems, are like servants. Do your thing and then get the hell out, and don't bother us important people. I guess since Gilbert has such a low crime rate, the police have time to bother working folks.

If Gilbert City is this self important and ticket happy, don't get overly self-righteous about the place vis-à-vis California. It sounds like it's its own little piece of regulated hell. I wouldn't deliver a load of dog shit to Gilbert even if they needed it to grow crops to save babies. THIS trucker wouldn't want to bother that town with his big rig.

OK, back to the topic. Investigation underway...

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I'm glad your safe.

Sometimes random crime happens, regardless of zip code or FBI statistics.

I live in one the nicer, desired suburbs of Sacramento. In the nearby apartments, a young gay man decapitated his sugar daddy. Yikes. Then a year or two ago, a distraught immigrant father killed his wife and three children. Rough stuff.