Years ago some newspaper/tabloid parked a car with the hood up in a neighborhood and photographed how people reacted.
In the white neighborhood, nothing - except when it started to rain, one guy came over and closed the hood.
In the black neighborhood, within minutes some ferals were removing the battery and God knows what else.
At the time it was a bit of a shocker as even most blacks who saw the test in print commented that they thought it was wrong.
This reminds me of something from the past...
Years ago a relative was having trouble with some punk running over his mailbox in a big 4 wheel drive pickup. After replacing his mailbox and post 4 times, he decided to pick up an 8 foot section of drill pipe. (He worked in the oil field all his life)
He cemented the pipe in place and attached a 5th mailbox to it, left a small square concrete housing in which he planted a few flowers.
One night not long after dark he heard the expected loud crunch and walked outside to take a look. The truck was in the ditch, front end mangled, transmission almost completely yanked out, mailbox destroyed, post bent...
So the guy who ran over the mailbox sued for damages. The judge decided that after 4 mailboxes it was intentional destruction of personal property, not to mention a federal charge regarding mailboxes if I remember correctly, and told him he would not only have to repair his own truck, he would have to pay for the replacement of the mailbox too.
That was the last mailbox the relative lost...