Yes I would impose safety on people...darn tootin...and what would happen then? Children could go outside and play. Old women could go shopping. People could sit out in the sunshine and be healthier. Small businesses would come into the neighborhood...a grocer perhaps..and then trucks would go to the farms and bring in fresh vegetables...people would start to paint their houses or storefronts...people could hire taxis who would show up....people could become taxi drivers....there would probably be more bus traffic coming and going...there would be more bikers and shoppers coming into the neighborhood..the downside would be gentrification..and that is a problem...I sometimes think crime is a way of protecting property prices so people can afford to live there..but we have to break that anyway.....then you would have an ice cream truck that wasn't afraid to go there..then a little laundromat...then a used bookstore...things would escalate up instead of down.

I would hesitate to provide too much comfort to single, working age, non-handicapped people. Basic shelter and hygeine, washing machines etc...but not too much comfort...spartan conditions but safe and clean. mg