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I Sympathize with Unanimous on This!
Okay, I don't get to check this everyday, but the more I do the more chatty I am feeling.
Anyway, Jen, I don't think we have met, but I just want to say I am sorry about your bike for your and your daughter and about the rudeness you experienced trying to get answers/help. When we were broken into the police actually made us feel like it was our fault for not having a security system. But given how they came in, it wouldn't have even mattered if we did have one. They just would have been in and out so fast through the window. I remember just feeling like total crap. They took my daughter's peter rabbit musical jewelry box, it didn't have any jewelry in it, just some change, but the box itself was sentimental. It wasn't even worth anything, just a kid style jewelery box. But she got it when she was a baby. They took camera's, money, other stuff, but that actually got me the most, along with a sweet sixteen ring my grandmother gave me, again, not worth a ton a money, but just special.
It's more than just the material things that are taken, it's the memories that go along with them, and the sentiment behind them. And the fact that we are working our A@#@'s off to make a living, makes it even more frustrating to see our things just go "poof" into the hands of some junkie who pawns it off down the street for a quick fix. And then it is a pain in the A@# to replace these things, even if insurance did cover it, it's just more paperwork and frustration. It's also having to go to pawn shops to look for your stuff, which is not the most pleasant experience. I gave up looking for my stuff, which I regret, but it just made me relive the experience and go through the disappointment all over again each time I checked. They might call drug abuse/dealing a victimless crime, but it sure is not a victimless crime.
I don't think befriending these people is the answer. Befriending them is their way of working us I truly feel. Substance abuse treatment, jail, community intervention whatever that means, GETTING THE DEALERS OUT OF HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. I have no idea what the answer is, but the theives here in Mt. Hope do not want to be our friends, they want to steal our stuff to get drugs/alcohol or money. It could be even the dealers breaking in, but I doubt it.
So, I hope you can find out who did it, and get your bike back. I have a bike if you ever want to borrow a bike. I hope that these types of crimes will stop in Mt. Hope, I know that is idealistic, but I still hope for it. What can we do to make all this stop?
Jessica K.
Posted at September 13, 2005 09:10 PM
Jessica, thanks so much for the post. I'm sorry to hear about your break-in. It's just so violating, isn't it? How do you explain it to you kids? I can see mine has gotten a little hardened by the experience and it saddens me.
I've given up on the bike, as I have with my radio and my boyfriends' one week old laptop that was stolen over the winter. I hope to have some money saved to get a new bike next spring. We'll see.
I don't know how to make it stop, but I think calling the police and filing the reports let those that make and influence decisions know that there is alot of crime going on around here. I think that posting our stories and our concerns here is a good step; this website gets read by an awful lot of people and we want them to know that we are unhappy about the situation in Mt. Hope. And most importantly, I think we need to be vigilant. We need to be active as Crime Watchers and monitor the action on our street. We need to pay attention to what our local, known thugs and punks are up to when we see them plying their trade and call it in. We need to look out for each other and work together to make the dealers get out of here, one way or another.
Jen
Posted by: Jen at September 14, 2005 08:28 AM