I'm sure I'm not alone when I say I've seen crime in the city, suburbs and rural areas. The only difference is at what frequency does it occur. The 50's "Cleaver Family" is no longer the model...maybe never was. Locking home and car doors is the norm....even more talking doorbells that snap pics of trespassers saved to the cloud are very popular.
Crime absolutely happens... however there is an industry that is monopolizing on the culture of fear that has become needlessly pervasive. Amazon has just been called out specifically for propagating the fear in order to sell more Ring doorbells. I've had neighbors call the cops because someone knocked on their door. It baffles me... why didn't they just answer the door?
I live in DFW with 7 million of my closest friends and people are afraid of their own shadows. My front door has a decorative half-circle window in the top of it where you'd have to be quite tall or have a step-stool to look in at all. The prior owners smeared glue of some kind all over it to make it opaque. One of the first things I did was clean that off.
My wife and I did a 3-week road-trip last December leaving the house to our son while we were gone. It turns out he went over to a friend's house for and left our garage door open for several days. Not a single thing was disturbed.
I'm not saying I don't typically lock my doors. Even my shed in my back yard has a lock. However, I'm far from paranoid about it. A person could easily come into my fenced back yard and steal my smoker if they really wanted to. I don't have any particular fear that is going to happen, though.