Right - scatter them around. Fortunately I don’t live in a high crime area (town pop. of 1200) but it’s a tourist town with a state and national park and camp sites so we get folks over from the Seattle area and are lookie-loos; like to come on to people’s property up in the mountains and wander around looking. There are signs regards health concerns should they wander onto our property.
Seattle used to be a nice city. I climbed Mt Rainier years ago.