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Is this the true reason?
I'm not saying it's not, I cannot account for your personal motivation, but it can be criticized on two levels.
The first: is truly the police and the legal system that make threats very rare? Or they simply move towards more resource rich environment like large cities?
The second: are you cognitively equipped to fear modern day threats in accordance to their effective level of presence? That is, is your fear positively correlated with modern hazards?
It's hard to be sure, of course. But: (1) even in large cities in the country where I live the rate of serous crime is low, and the regions of those cities where the rate is higher are not the more "resource-rich" regions; (2) most likely I fear violent crime more than I should on the basis of its frequency; certainly everything I've seen suggests that most of us do. If #2 still bothers you, though, please pretend that I wrote "need have essentially no fear".
[EDITED to fix a typo.]