I know someone who used to work for a mechanical service company that specialized in larger commercial/industrial HVAC and electrical work. It was company policy where if they had to do work in certain cities or parts of cities, unless that location had a secured facility to park their vehicles they would bill them for at least one armed security guard.
Eventually, some of these areas got so bad they simply refused the work except for certain “essential” facilities like hospitals, police/fire stations, etc. as they almost always had their own security to begin with and usually had secured areas to park.
I had the same issue. On San Jacinto Ave. in Dallas we serviced a junk-ass chiller at an apartment complex. When it went down, the Section 8 ferals got a case of the ass real quick. I just left. The boss agreed completely as he didn’t want to lose a truck or a tech.
“It was company policy where if they had to do work in certain cities or parts of cities, unless that location had a secured facility to park their vehicles they would bill them for at least one armed security guard.”
My brother had a large client in really bad part of Detroit.The owners would tell him only to stop in very early in the m orning before the local citizens awakened.