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I would hazard a guess that to make numbers like that, having your mailbox trashed is equivalent with a beat down mugging, statistically.
There is that - I forgot about those. I see them when I leave the mountain. Not on my private road, but on the public road. There is one or two houses that - for whatever reason - have someone smashing their mailboxes repeatedly.
When I lived on the farm, we had a stop sign on our corner (one of three or four locally - now there is a roundabout). Some anal orifices would cut across our lawn and tear up the lawn rather than obey the stop sign (I think it was more about thumbing their nose at our nice house on the corner).
My uncle got tired of it and would, from time to time, put out long 2x10" planks with long heavy nails in them sticking upwards about 6" from the wood. More than once this caught the culprits and we would see a car down the road from the farm with multiple flat tires.
I think one reason why we don't have much crime on our private road (besides the fact that it is a private road) is that there are several houses with Ring cameras on them that record all the comings and goings. Another reason is the reputation we have of shooting guns often, and an incident before I moved here where the neighborhood came out en masse with guns to hunt down a peeping Tom who was seen looking in a little girl's window (that incident was well known on the mountain).
Another incident a few years ago happened at a farm at the base of the mountain (there was a thread here about it) where a drunk driver crashed thru a fence near the farm house and was trying to escape - the farmer came out with a shotgun and held him for police (I think I recall that the farmer shot into the ground).
Word travels around that people out here are not to be messed with - it even makes it into the city (Hillsboro mostly, where there are more migrant farm laborer's relatives).