ultra-low crime in the real world

I've mentioned earlier the obvious fact that high surveillance leads to low crime. So gated communities, and close-knit villages (like mine) have very low crime. Land rent leads to the freedom to choose your own community, so each community is like a close-knit village or gated community. But that is long term. In the short term, land rent has a more immediate effect in lowering crime, by lowering the cost of land.

Rather than argue about the links between land monopoly and crime, let us look back to the time when America had low land prices. Congressman Henry George Jr explained the causes, and here is the result:

While Minister to France, Jefferson explained to one of his French friends that
in the ten years of his attendance as student and practitioner at the bar of the
Supreme Court of Virginia there, never was a trial for robbery on the high road,
and that he never heard of one in any of the other States, except in the cities
of New York and Philadelphia immediately after the departure of the British
army, "when some deserters infested those cities for a time." (Letter to M.
Claviere, Jefferson's Writings, Ford Edition, Vol . IV, p. 402.)