Car Stolen: Epilogue

[lost in space]

Sucks.

Roommate of mine and I were looking for an address on a country road, stopping, backing up, going forward again. Some young girl thought we were after her. She ran to her pastor's house, he called the cops, they took us downtown. Towed my car, a restored 62 Volvo, and impounded it. They let us go, but I had to shell out $60 (in 1978 dollars) to get the car out, plus they bent the bumper towing it. Still rankles.

[RAMd®d]

With law enforcement increasingly ignoring property crimes as "too much trouble" -

BS.

Crimes against property will always take a back seat to violent crimes, even if the cost to patch up a person is less that that of a stolen car or Mac, especially when dwindling budgets eviscerate manpower in police departments.

Nobody wants to put money into police departments but everybody wants their undivided attention when somebody had trampled their begonias.

That's just the way it.

People suck, and sometimes it's really easy to hate the world.

[Winston]

RAMd®d wrote:
People suck, and sometimes it's really easy to hate the world.

I know. Gets me discouraged sometimes. But I think there is a lot more good than bad, when I can get a perspective on things.


Good luck.

- Winston

[Seacrest]

Sucky story, Bro.

I HATE having stuff stolen from me (who doesn't), no matter how insignificant.

[Black]

Wow, I was actually going to post agreement with Paul F yesterday. I'll give it to you RAMmy, when you're wrong, at least you're bold about it. There has been a definite trend towards treating property crimes as non-events by law enforcement-- in many urban areas the police won't even come to the scene to investigate a break-in.
You should get out more.

RAMd®d wrote:
With law enforcement increasingly ignoring property crimes as "too much trouble" -

BS.

Crimes against property will always take a back seat to violent crimes, even if the cost to patch up a person is less that that of a stolen car or Mac, especially when dwindling budgets eviscerate manpower in police departments.

Nobody wants to put money into police departments but everybody wants their undivided attention when somebody had trampled their begonias.

That's just the way it.

People suck, and sometimes it's really easy to hate the world.

[Winston]

Where we are the police are very statistics driven. They will put resources where the stats say they are needed. One of the things the security association emphasizes is to ALWAYS report crime and anything suspicious by calling 911. Squeaky wheel and all that.

We don't get many stolen vehicles, but there are regular break-ins of cars and homes. The security association reports these and tips for security regularly.

Having a local neighborhood watch or something similar can be valuable. It helps deter crime because it encourages people to be more aware. This both reduces the availability of easy targets and makes criminals more likely to be noticed. Our neighborhood security association hires off-duty police to patrol. They do vacation house checks and are scheduled semi-randomly at higher crime times for regular patrols. Also do some speeder checks, mostly on cut-through traffic.


Good luck.

- Winston