They need to pick more wealthy retirees then. The old ladies that wear every piece of bling they own on their fingers, necks and wrists and drive fancy cars with diamond encrusted walkers, lol.
Poor retirees have diddly squat, but that doesn't seem to stop the homeless from trying to rob them. Yesterday, in broad daylight, two thug assholes (white, because they were seen and the ones that saw them were too afraid to confront them), climbed our fence here at the apts and rifled thru two cars. Too bad I was not out there. I heard about it when I went down for a cig. We have security cameras here...told the two old ladies that had their cars rifled to tell the manager to look at the tapes. Whether she did or not, I have no clue. Probably not.
The gangs know, if they target poor minorities, or poor whites, the police won't take it as serious as if they target the rich in a different economic class as they live in.
To the folks that control the law and the system, they just don't give a shit about inter class rivalry. But if the minorities, or even white trash step out of line? Then that shit gets put on the news.
For instance, let's say you got hit. . . and called the cops. Even if they did catch the guy that stole your stuff and recovered your stolen property, because you are poor, the police would just keep your property, and the gangs know this. The police would claim they need it as. . . "evidence to build a case for prosecution." And then they would sit on it till, well, whenever, till it is forgotten. To the system, and society, the value of your property is really not that much.
OTH, if the police were called by someone wealthy, they would have to make it a top priority, and actually use resources to catch them, until the property was recovered.
Don't believe me? Go to a police auction, and go see all the lower class and middle class property that has been seized as, "evidence," by police from the gangs, or from drug dealers.
. . . since you are poor, the police are really no more your friends than the gangs are.
The gangs & thieves know this, and that is why you and your friends are hit, and not the rich. It is so they can commit their petty crimes for small potatoes and have the po-po leave them the hell alone. (Also, rich have security systems, guards, and live further away.)
The law and the police work for the rich dear. I thought you knew this?

The poor, homeless, criminal element, etc. and the gangs sure do.