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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1068451, member: 57463&quot;]<b>80% of Your Problems</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the replies.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Right.&nbsp; The statistics of what &quot;most burglars&quot; or &quot;very few criminals&quot; do still allow for minorities and exceptions.&nbsp; Most burglars are planfully competent, not impulsive, but they are not overly hard working, either.&nbsp; Very few criminals would surf the numismatic message boards to find victims because it is too much effort.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Every police department knows that 80% of their problems come from 20% of their addresses ...rich or poor, city or village...&nbsp; People are people: rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your 1000+ posts made you a valued member of our community long ago.&nbsp; It is the one-time query that worried me.&nbsp; And I agree that the one post might lead to others as someone new comes into the hobby.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Our wedding anniversary was yesterday.&nbsp; It was a small ceremony in her parents&#039; home.&nbsp; But my wife wondered what ever happened to ...&nbsp; So, she looked him up. Married twice, kids, living here, working there.&nbsp; Facebook, LinkedIn ... just Google will start the process...&nbsp; But, as my reply to Lucy and in Farstaff&#039;s original post, traveling to small towns across America is more work than the rewards will bring.&nbsp; Most male burglars victimize their neighbors, while most female burglars go into other neighborhoods.&nbsp; That&#039;s about as far as it goes.&nbsp; Following coin dealers from national conventions is for a different kind of criminal; and it takes a different kind of prevention.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Both good points, B. I don&#039;t see much need to dwell on this.&nbsp; In criminology we speak of the &quot;mass mediated&quot; reality of crime: our opinions are only reflections of our views shown back to us magnified by TV, movies, the internet.&nbsp; The people most fearful of crime are the ones who never actually experience it.&nbsp; It is a simple fact that most people in most times and places are mostly honest.&nbsp; Newt Gingrich used to have a riff about trust in a market society.&nbsp; &quot;You pick up the phone, call an 800 number, give your credit card to someone you never met and never will; and the next morning you show up at the airport actually expecting a ticket to be there.&quot;&nbsp; Trust works.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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