Comment by burnt-resistor

A few? / some? of the very richest and most exclusive have armed quick reaction forces of essentially off-duty/retired police and PMCs. I know of one by a fancy hotel where presidents, celebs, and other heads of states stay beside very rich residential neighborhood abutting fancy condos/apartments.

Interestingly, a lot of ordinary "gated" communities aren't as exclusive as their misleading signage suggests. For example, there are a number of areas where the sidewalks are indeed public and right-of-ways but display says the area is "private" when it is not as evidenced by county GIS data. Jeff Gray runs into this often in Florida. It's similar to the bogus "no parking" signs and hiding of public right of way access that routinely happens in Malibu.