Thieves In Nice Neighborhoods:

RobV said:
Sad, I just had to go buy another $300 extension ladder because you know.....I didn't put it in the shed, just laid it up against my fence for the evening so I didn't have to get it out in the morning to finish the new porch roof. :mad:
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Sorry to hear that dude. Pathetic. And the way the local police often act, is that its YOUR fault for leaving within temptation of some thieving goon. Never their fault!
 
Petty crimes suck the joy out of things, but I can think of a million people worse than thieves. I've had two vehicles broken into. I pay insurance for these things and always consider material things as just that, things. I don't leave important documents in my cars except registration and insurance, and never leave anything that gives someone a reason to break into my cars within view.

Porch pirates are the big thing in my neighborhood these days. Police have bigger fish to fry these days than these small crimes. What irritates me, is that my local police station has three dozen police cruisers that sit idle in their parking lot every day, almost all day. You can't find a cop anywhere, and rarely see them patrolling, but they have enough budget to own 36 police cruisers, and an assault military anti-riot vehicle. We have no riots. We are a small quiet suburb.

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Sad part is I install cameras on oil rigs and never bothered in my house, Mike I live about 3-4 hours from you on the PA side of the mountains in 1 of those 120 year old coal mining patches on the other side of Motown. Anyway I installed cameras the next day...lol
 
I think in some ways when you are in a "nicer" neighborhood it's even worse. The median home price in my neighborhood is north of $2M and petty crimes are just rampant here. Every car gets broken into, every bike gets stolen, anything not nailed down disappears. You see these vans roll through the streets late at night and very early in the morning and it's clearly groups of thieves cruising the neighborhood looking for targets of opportunity but the police department here is quite small and doesn't have the resources to do anything about it.
 
gball said:
I think in some ways when you are in a "nicer" neighborhood it's even worse. The median home price in my neighborhood is north of $2M and petty crimes are just rampant here. Every car gets broken into, every bike gets stolen, anything not nailed down disappears. You see these vans roll through the streets late at night and very early in the morning and it's clearly groups of thieves cruising the neighborhood looking for targets of opportunity but the police department here is quite small and doesn't have the resources to do anything about it.
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There’s something to be said for gated communities, it keeps the riff-raff out. The home we just moved from in Anaheim Hills was a gated community with a guard 24x7. Never had any issues there in 15 years. I think I posted this before, but about 6 months after we had moved in there in 2005 we took a 7 day camping trip over to the Grand Canyon. When we returned, we had forgotten to close the garage door. 7 days! Not a thing was missing.
 
Don O said:
There’s something to be said for gated communities, it keeps the riff-raff out. The home we just moved from in Anaheim Hills was a gated community with a guard 24x7. Never had any issues there in 15 years. I think I posted this before, but about 6 months after we had moved in there in 2005 we took a 7 day camping trip over to the Grand Canyon. When we returned, we had forgotten to close the garage door. 7 days! Not a thing was missing.
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Yes. No doubt that's a real asset.
 
Robert Herndon said:
Agreed!

And the cops won't even bother taking a report!
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Here, they take a report over the phone, give you a crime number for the insurance company and hang up. Unless, of course, your wife happens to say to them that the thieves are still on the premises and her husband will sort it out himself.

And here they come. Mob handed, sirens and all...

Not for the thieves, but to arrest you for threatening behaviour...
 
Beagle said:
Here, they take a report over the phone, give you a crime number for the insurance company and hang up. Unless, of course, your wife happens to say to them that the thieves are still on the premises and her husband will sort it out himself.

And here they come. Mob handed, sirens and all...

Not for the thieves, but to arrest you for threatening behaviour...
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sound about right sadly..
 
9 months ago in Crazyfornia:
abcnews.go.com

Man arrested 3 times in 1 day under CA's coronavirus-based zero-bail policy

Officers in Los Angeles County arrested and released a suspect three times in one day after he was repeatedly let go based on California's temporary zero-bail policy.
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POS WARNING:
Dijon Landrum, 24 years old. You Southern California boyz... remember this POS's face:
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