Well duh. Why wouldn’t criminals rob wealthier communities? Mobster Willie Sutton had it figured out:
“When asked why he robbed banks, Sutton simply replied, ‘Because that’s where the money is.’”
Banks get robbed because criminals know bank employees are trained to give up the money.
Also, banks are hesitant to put up bullet proof glass between tellers and customers...which is a mistake IMO and i suspect would mitigate many bank robberies.
So I don’t ask why banks get robbed....I ask why wouldn’t they?
By in large low end habitual criminals have been too stupid and lazy to engage in crime far from home. They foul their own nests, as it were, almost as if their preference.
Shoplifting in upscale stores and neighborhoods was often from relatively wealthier thieves still operating close to home.
Your proverbial Wet Bandits, from Home Alone, who went far afield to tony neighborhoods to steal from them would have been rarer and somewhat of an exception.
Any transition from being a plague on their own neighbors to being a plague in general shows that people are graduating from being stupid and evil to being just evil.