What do you remember Rev? I used to visit a friend there when I was a teenager, 40 odd years ago, and a girlfriend in Keymer a few years later. I don't remember anything dodgy (apart from her homemade curries). We would have a beer in The Thatched Inn. Seemed like an idyllic small, Sussex town...
But surely we can demand the government police the streets and punish this sort of behaviour? The alternative to actually dealing with this stuff properly is we all have to vigilant everywhere, and then have to have coping strategies if we are giving a kicking. Sounds a sad state of affairs really.