{"id":29427,"date":"2012-04-08T14:27:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T18:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29427"},"modified":"2012-04-08T16:10:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T20:10:25","slug":"washington-post-gated-communities-breed-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29427","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post: Gated communities breed fear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edward Blakely, who apparently thinks that guns, not people kill people, writes today in the Washington Post<\/a> that gated communities killed Trayvon Martin;<\/p>\n

Though gates reroute traffic, they do not lower crime. Instead, in these controlled spaces, an \u201cus vs. them\u201d mentality festers: Leaders of gated communities need to show that there is value to their rules by creating an external enemy \u2014 those people outside the walls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Blakely contends that the presence of private security gives residents a false sense of security. No more than having an overbearing TSA at our airport gates, or those rehabbed criminals with guns guarding our Federal buildings in the nation’s capital gives everyone a false sense of security. Is anyone suggesting that we fire the tens of thousands of private security guards that we pay with our tax dollars? Or downgrade security presence at the airport because they’re only engaged in the harassment of travelers which does nothing to improve our security?<\/p>\n

The difference of course, is that these gated communities pay out of their pockets for to address their security concerns and the TSA is funded by taxpayer dollars. Blakely, in his last paragraph says this outloud;<\/p>\n

We have to work together to reduce crime, poverty and other social problems in our communities \u2014 rich and poor, black and white, urban and suburban. If we aren\u2019t hanging out together where we live, we can easily fall apart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, we’ve been working together to reduce crime for a few thousand years, and it’s working so well that some people feel as if they have to do more. Looking to the future for a perfect crime free society is fine, but those of us who have families today want a more immediate solution.<\/p>\n

I wouldn’t live in a gated community because I don’t like people, any people, criminals or not. But if those people who do live in gated communities feel more secure, leave them alone. We all have to do what we feel is necessary to protect our families. And the way that the media is sticking pins in a George Zimmerman doll, can blame anyone for delegating their security concerns to someone else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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