I remember what it was like to be able to walk to kindergarten with my neighborhood friends in 1966.
Veterans of WWI, II, Korea out shoveling snow, or mowing their lawns, or fixing their cars, or tending their gardens and small businesses.
There was always someone around we could turn to for help and we were safe thanks to them.
If we misbehaved our parents found out about it from them too!
That was a community. No government coercion required.
Back then my sis and I could camp out in the living room with the door unlocked.
Of course, that was before the Manson Family.....