Besides, libraries are for the “little” people.

It’s how a gang would behave, if it were so wealthy that it could outsource its violence.

When I was a teenager, I would get pulled over constantly for “driving a suspicious vehicle”. This translated as “You are driving a crappy car in Medina” But when my parents house was robbed, the cops did nothing but take a statement, shrug and pretty much say “tough sh**”.

When a neighbors car was stolen, he got pretty much the same response. He made a report to Medina Police, and 2 days later when it was found in a ditch, it had not even been entered in whatever system the police use for stolen cars.

God forbid you live in Medina and let your car tabs expire! The police constantly sit at the gas station where most traffic enters / exits the neighborhood, and all they do is run plates and check tabs all day long. When I purchased a used car that had expired tabs, I was pulled over every day for 4 weeks despite displaying the appropriate dealership temporary plates.

I have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and tracking my every movement in the neighborhood I live is a violation of that privacy.

I cant tell you how many million dollar homes in Medina have a 3 dollar lock on the door. If the good residents if Medina are worried about crime, my suggestion is to invest in good locks and a security system, and use them.

Shelling out a ton of money to build Big Brother / Skynet is not the answer, and is not the American way.

This is tantamount to calling West Berkeley a suburb of San Francisco.

Living close to Tiburon, I can say with at least a bit of authority that there’s very little reason to go to Tiburon unless you already live there or are considering living there, in which case you’re already fabulously wealthy and aren’t worried about what rules might apply to you, because none of them do.

I imagine the situation in this similar sounding community is much the same. A collection of enormous houses with spectacular views, a few overpriced gourmet shops, snobby art galleries, jewelry stores, and real-estate offices that are open by appt. only.

They’re advertising to the general public to stay the hell out, they don’t want or need your money.

I see no reason not to grant that wish.

Rich people are also commonly bilked out of money. Any wealthy hotel is going to charge $7 for a PBR and a $20 surcharge for using their hotel phone to make a call etc etc..and wealthy people won’t be bothered to identify how they are getting bilked on an itemized list. It is like normal people with telecommunication plans. So similarly the police of Medina may be bilking the residents by inventing services and charging them via property taxes. Its a common occurrence for wealth to attract a culture of parasitism.

I applaud the steps taken by this community. My wish is that my own area of the world in rural Ohio would be blessed by the same type of individuals that developed and adopted this plan. If my family is protected (even just a little more than an occasional patrol car), I would be willing to have my phones tapped, video taped and put on youtube as an effort to step up protection.

And for the record, I conducted a quick poll of my household…. my wife, 5 year old and two 8 year olds don’t feel like being robbed once OR several times is acceptable…. as quoted by my 5 year old…. “not never”.

You never left…

The cost of eliminating all possibility of crime is, well, I think Ripley from the Aliens movie said it best, “I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”

But seriously, if a community has $X worth of burglaries per year, and can completely eliminate it at a cost of $100X per year, who wins?

When Jesus said that the poor will always be with you, he wasn’t advocating poverty, but acknowledging that societies aren’t perfect, and we must deal with it. In a similar way, “crime will always be with you”. It’s up to us to deal with it reasonably and responsibly.

#12-I’m not sure “polite” is the right word. It’s “You have been warned.”

It’s good business in a lot of respects. If a person doesn’t care to brush off the mosquitoes that’s their prerogative.

Also I recommend the convention of @ rather than # because BoingBoing inserts anonymous comments more slowly than registered comments but keeps them in chronological order. To compensate for the later entry, the post numbers on all following posts will change, for instance my post #12 may become #14 when the anonymous posts preceding mine finally get accepted.

Given that today is Constitution Day, I would like to direct your attention to the National Constitution Center. On their website one can download a copy of the entire US constitution. Wherin you will find that your community is teetering on the brink of violating Section One of Article XIV. The first time someone is arrested for simply “passing through”, your community can expect a very expensive civil rights lawsuit that your community will be lucky to settle out of court.

A: White collar prisons

The line about “zero tolerance” to minor crime illustrates the stupidity of the residents – they imagine risk can be reduced to zero at all or without any side effects. Complete morons.