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the thread you follow throughout elwynn forest to westfall is 'the human kingdom is in disrepair and stormwind is going to pay the price for its negligence' with things like the kobolds, the murlocs, the defias, etc.
the stockades are meant to be a security complex in the heart of the capital, not some place they can barely afford to spare eyes like in moonbrook.
its fitting that you find a letter on van cleef's person which starts a quest chain for the stockades and eventually ends with katrana prestor. it futher expounds that these problems you have been facing are the result of corruption and political mistakes by the nobles as well as the machinations of onyxia.