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We have a watch committee structure here. Each covers about a hundred homes. I'm a mile and a half from the city centre. I get a leaflet a couple of times a year saying what problems have been been noted. If my memory's correct we had three car windows smashed one night four years ago and nothing since. There was a voluntary £5/$10 collection from each household to cover costs when it was set up and that's still in credit. The organizers brought a small police team to the public hall for a meeting when it was set up, who gave advice and local statistics. I don't remember when my back door was last locked - Christmas, probably, when the house was empty for a few days.

Honestly I think it would be well worth the little bit of time in being involved in the neighborhood watch programs...The more everyone does their share the more effective it will be...

People who know they're in a neighborhood that has one probably won't try and break into houses if not by the simple signs displaying it's existence then by the sheer reputation of it alone...

AngelEyes82;594252 wrote: Every night before we go to sleep I make sure the doors & windows are locked. There was someone going around here not too long ago breakin' into open windows and kidnapping the kids in the house. Then there was the baseline rapist.. If I was caught outside before like 8am i got told by the cops that were patrolling our streets to go back in and lock my doors. That was a long time.. The bus had to go to each kids house and pick them up right in front.. The bus had a police escort. It was crazy.


My God where do you live?...

Pinky;594255 wrote: We have one in the dell. The funny thing is, Sharon who used to run it kept a hash plant in her conservatory where everyone met - including the local copper!:D

Luckily it was only small and it looked a bit like a tomato plant!


:wah:

I bet it didn't smell like a tomato plant...

There's no neighborhood watch on my street. However everyone still keeps an eye out for trouble and such.

I think just about every community here has neighborhood watch. I guess one blessing about my dog is he barks at everything. I have learned this is good. Last summer we had a peeper on 2 separate occasions at 2 different houses on our street.

We have graffiti all over the place cause our community "gang" likes to "tag" the neighboring community property so then they come up the hill and "tag" our area. A lot of these "rebel" wannabe kids are kids my youngest daughter goes to school with and she says they are quite simply "stupid thrill seekers who are bored" .

There is no excuse for this kind of crap.

I know exactly what you are going through. Our community went through this a few months ago. We had a family living here that terrorized us for many months. We started a neighborhood watch and a few of us got together and did something about it. The two sons are in jail and the father is due in court. I must appear in court on Friday for a witness for the prosecution on the youngest son. We joined together and got results. Everything as been quite since they have been locked up.

AngelEyes82;594290 wrote: wow.



It isn't anyone in our neighborhood- not even in the older section.. I don't think. We've all been seeing a lot of strange people strolling through here.

I hate that I can't feel safe..


I guess it makes it harder when you don't know who is doing the damage and the steeling. Just stick together and keep an eye on each other. We were evening patrolling in our cars at two in the morning. If the jerks that are causing the problem hear that you are keeping an eye on each other that may be enough to get them to leave.

AngelEyes82;594323 wrote: yup- thats what we're all thinking. The cops are even patroling around here now.


I hope things work out for the best.

Wow Angel!! I live in the sticks, I live in a neighborhood where the houses have good distance between them...we all have about 1 acre lots or so...I have lived in my house for 16 years and the majority of it Alone with 3 kids....always have dogs though. I've only been scared a handful of times and called the police to patrol the area. (and nothing happened, 'cept one time they saw someone in the woods, but they got away, think it was a kid). There was a time when my Ex was stalking me in my woods and I didn't even know it until after the fact. (he confessed to me out of guilt....jerk!)

I couldn't imagine not feeling safe, although I know what it is to live in fear, horrible feeling!

Fisher, I'm so glad to hear things are better in your neighborhood, remember you sharing with us about that.



Angel, I hope that it gets better soon...let me know if I need to fly over there and save the day with my "super hero powers":wah:

AngelEyes82;594374 wrote: Lol I'll be sure to let you know!! haha



I don't feel safe enough to leave the doors unlocked! thats the problem. In the neighborhood I grew up in we ALWAYS left the doors unlocked & the windows opened. It's really sad that we can't do that these days.


Yeah, my doors are always Locked at night, windows locked...during the day while we aren't home is a different story...but probably shouldn't share that on a public board huh?? duh!

Fisher, I'm so glad to hear things are better in your neighborhood, remember you sharing with us about that.





Thanks. I just received a phone call from a RCMP officer saying I do not have to appear in court of Friday that he plead guilty. I will let you know what his sentence is but I suspect it not to be much, he is a minor.

We don't have anything like that where I live.

I only had my hub caps stolen last week right out side my house, OK they were hub caps but they came with the car and they were branded with the make of the car on them (hence why they were stolen in the first place)

I ended up buying brand alloys for my car and got them really cheap on ebay and got myself some locking wheel nuts too.

I hope who ever stole my hub caps can see that I have got somthing even better and they cant have'em :sneaky: