The only problem with such a spreadsheet is that the number of reported incidents are not statistically valuable without knowing the total sample size. If, for example, 100 people report incidents, that sounds like a lot. But if it is 100 reported out of a sample of 100,000 viewers, that’s a statistically small enough number to not mean that much. It might even be lower than the number of reported residential burglaries for a similar suburban sample size.Interblog wrote:Instagram might make you a believer.chasfm11 wrote: ... I get it from the OP that having high end electronics visible can change the remote possibility of being a victim in an RV significantly. But we've had our RV since 2004, have over 60K miles on it, driving it all over the country and have never come close to an incident in a "camped" situation. I've tried to query my RV neighbors within that same timeframe and have yet to hear even a secondhand story about an incident while parked.
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Retrospectively, I realize that it would have been to my own benefit, and to the benefit of other people by establishing fact-based perspective, to create a small spreadsheet to capture the basic details of the break-ins that vanners in particular have historically reported on social media. Those reports formed the basis for what I do know about the general modis operandi - for instance, the reports that vehicle invaders most often enter through the driver's door, which is something that I would not have predicted.
Also, how affluent looking is your RV? I remember a cop friend of mine telling me that the B&E rate in rich neighborhoods was far higher than in poor neighborhoods. Poor people dont’ have anything worth stealing.