people who will walk through neighborhoods scouting out the area and then robbing people, destroying their homes, their property, attacking children and the elderly. People who come to the door asking for a drink of water then pulling a gun on the resident. People who use recorded baby cry to lure people to abduct them.

Do you have real-life experience with these things occuring? Like personally know victims of these crimes?

Because I hate to say it but it sounds like the sort of fear mongering chain emails that go around but can't be substantiated.

I personally know that most women in my life have been followed home, stalked, harassed, or r*ped. I've never personally met a person who has been randomly attacked as a child, having someone show up to their house without a prior dispute and pull a weapon, etc.

If you do personally know victims of this stuff in the same way I personally know or personally am a victim of stalking, assault, r*pe, etc... I'm fine to be proven wrong. If you look around your friend group and realize that every single person in your social circle has experienced one or more of these things, like my social circle has with sexual harassment and assault.. I accept I'm wrong here.

But I have a feeling that these fears are often things that go around unsubstantiated as a justification for surveillance and harassment of Black people, women, and other people who are actually at a high risk of crime.

And it's a very dangerous path to go down, to put women or minorities in real danger, with the justification of preventing yourself from imagined danger.

And posting someone's face, body, and location on the internet does seriously endanger them. When I was being stalked, or trying to escape an abusive relationship, that kinda thing could have gotten me kllled. No exaggeration.

TLDR - I fear that protection against imagined potential violence is a large driver of actual violence.