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Some years back, my older brother was in law school. He spent the weekend with a pal he was friends with in school. The parents lived in an upper scale, gated Florida community on the water. Very expensive area. So, my brother decides one late afternoon to take a stroll and look at all the homes. Within ten minutes, there were police present questioning who he was and why he was there. My point is this: he is white. The neighbors saw someone who didn’t normally belong there and contacted the police. He and the family got a chuckle out of it and my brother wasn’t offended at all. He did joke that he needed some newer clothes if he was going to visit again. Suspicious behavior isn’t necessarily linked to race. It is also linked to if the person is a stranger and not acting correctly. IMHO.

my older brother was in law school. He spent the weekend with a pal [whose] parents lived in an upper scale, gated Florida community... my brother decides one late afternoon to take a stroll... Within ten minutes, there were police present questioning who he was and why he was there. My point is this: he is white. The neighbors saw someone who didn’t normally belong there and contacted the police.

New Jersey Homeowner Calls Cops on Bob Dylan
Forty Years After Woodstock, Bob Dylan Is Mistaken for a Homeless Man Aug. 14, 2009

Talk about a complete unknown.

Bob Dylan was detained by police in Long Branch, N.J. last month, when a young officer failed to recognize him, police said.... Dylan, 68, one of the most celebrated, eccentric artists in American history, was in the area on July 23 as part of a national concert tour -- a fact lost on 24-year-old Long Branch police officer Kristie Buble...

[T]he scene was like something out of one of Dylan's epic songs: It was pouring rain, Dylan was soaked and wandering alone, far from the traveling home of his entourage of tour buses.

When Dylan wandered into the yard of a home that had a "For Sale" sign on it, the home's occupants became spooked by his appearance and called police with a report of an "eccentric-looking old man" in their yard, Long Branch Police said. One of the occupants even went so far as to follow Dylan as he continued on down the street....

He did joke that he needed some newer clothes if he was going to visit again.

Yes, I suggest some expensive boat shoes, no socks, khakis, a pink Addidas polo and a white cardigan sweater draped across his shoulders like a cape, with the sleeves tied in a loose cross-over knot on his breast.

Very Florida haut culture.