Rattle wrote:

Brick Township does not "feel" safe. I can't think of another place in the US that has such a high ratio of police to people, and I work in downtown Washington, where we bathe in a sea of constant high security.. Brick is scary, because there doesn't appear to be any reason why it's necessary for it to be a police state like environment. It feels like it's unsafe as hell, because there are always cops, everywhere. There is a constant feeling that something should be going really wrong, if for no other reason than to justify why there are so many damn cops.

Exactly. In most places you have to worry about being mugged for the twenty dollar bill in your pocket. In Brick you need to worry about a hundred dollar ticket plus surcharges and insurance points. Safe is relative.

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