Which funny enough does happen in rural red areas. When everybody knows everybody there's incentive not to report crimes.

And yeah I go to Seattle from time to time and once I got used to the graffiti and the occasional unwell/intoxicated homeless person I've felt safer there than many parts of red states, even beyond my being queer. People will just tell you stories of horrific crimes from their small town and which people and places to avoid and you're just like "how do you have enough people to have a bad part of town"