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Aloha, David. I lived in Cobb County and worked in Downtown Atlanta. The Campbell administration was found to have fudged the stats on crime and just about everything else. His Dishonor himself was recently convicted of some federal offenses (mail fraud, I think) and is awaiting sentencing. Unfortunately the more serious bribery charge did not produce a conviction.
The guys in Cobb seemed to be on the up and up with their stats, but DID have a reputation for being perhaps too gung ho. They once called out the SWAT team in my neighborhood for a domestic situation that did NOT involve hostages or other SWAT factors IMHO.
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I personally like the labeling idea. Here we have engraved on high end (for us anyway LOL) stereo equipment, gardening tools and things we don't want to just walk away, with our drivers license numbers. On other things we have done our own graffiti painting with our last name on wood tables and such and our last name isn't Smith!
While living in the risky part of Oakland as younguns we had a burglar alarm that was connected to a school bell type alarm so that neighbors could hear if our home was broken into. It was an old craftsman type structure with ivy growing thru the walls, and the only time the alarm sounded was 4AM one morning when the building was on fire! Go figure, LOL.
Haven't a clue what we will do if we ever figure out how to get there. Thanks for all the good info here everyone.
mella l
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Booby traps of any kind are a VERY BAD IDEA
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Very Bad Idea????? I am planning on retractable spikes in two areas of my drive AND surveillance AND whatever else I can devise to catch/or detain. I have worked far too hard to allow some low-life to rip me off. Sorry, but I've been ripped off before and it is not fun.....
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Think Fire Truck or a kid on a bicyle, besides it being a Felony there is a special place in hell for mine layers
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I'm all for finding a way to find a way to stop the thieving. im starting a house my house in a isolated area, they dump garbage there allready.and ideas like the remote camaras are great. but talking about laying traps or shooting people is just nuts. im from new york and ive been involved in way more enconters of the lethal kind than most any one around here.I moved my family here to get away from such insanity
Edited by - seeb on 05/14/2006 22:59:18
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Big Island newspapers reported, back in March 2006, the rise in population was fueling the increase in drug use and burglaries on the Big Island. Hawaii's top prosecutor, Kimura, reported Drugs being #1, property theft and attacks on visitors as well as other illegal behavior had created a back-log of some 5600 outstanding warrants including 523 for felony crimes.
Other reports about the staffing problems in the Big Island police department suggest that some 70 plus officers are required, that they cannot find to fill the current force requirements. However, the talk of how easy it is to find employment, if you have skills, does not seem to apply here. Other articles speak of how new, experienced, recruits have no incentive to apply as any new comer to the force is required to begin at entry levels regardless of experience.
Perhaps the time has come for Big Island voters to begin forcing the hands of these officials that make up these policies.
Meanwhile, evidence, lawful deterrents and an in your face demand for justice from local authorities is the wisest approach for law abiding citizens. Accountability always seems to get the attention of those in charge. Perhaps Mr Kimura's office can be helpful in promoting the necc incentives to get some mainland experience and get the police force up to point where it is not so overwhelmed. Why are things like furniture for the the Mayor's new office ( some 40k+ ) more important or even considered when crime is on the rise. Sounds like it is time to storm the walls of city hall. just because an area has a police force and it is getting work done doesn't mean it shouldn't have more help, especially in today's world where things like homeland security is suppose to be so important. How secure are we when we can't even protect ourselves from each other......just a little rant :/
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Folks:
Every State/County etc has gotten annually sine 9/11 a federally funded plus up to their budget for homeland security. The problem is the funds are viewed as a grant to the State. Each State then decides what exactly to do with the funds. It is sort of like establishing a discretionary fund for the State use and they can spend it on whatever they deem important. Some increase the police force, some buy bullet proof vests, some increase traffic enforcement because it is a money maker. How many of you feel safer because more tickets are written?
In the surrounding area I am from called Washington D.C. which by the way is affectionately called the "Murder Capitol of the World!" the additional police funded by the plus up has done nothing but create gridlock by manning barricades and traffic checkpoints during rush hour traffic. A totally worthless use of those precious funds and none of us are safer as a result.
We need to hold our elected officials accountable for those funds and what they are spent on, under FOIA ask for a complete accounting.
I hear some of the bleeding hearts complaints about not responding with violence but when someone chooses, and they do have a choice, to trespass and violate your privacy, threaten your livelihood, and if you are home potentially harm you or your loved ones, then I am sorry, the rules of engagement completely change.
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man, reading this sounds like we live in honolulu. in our subdivision thefts have actually decreased from 5 years ago. while building someone must stay with the materials until it's nailed up. don't clear away the front of your property, what they can't see doesn't tempt them . put up a gate, and i know people who have put up cameras that are inexpensive. there are thieves everywhere, but one can't let them win and make everyone else into gunslinging paranoid rambos. aloha
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quote:
The idea might work in TX but discharging a firearm in a residential area is a crime in Hawaii.
Aloha,
John S. Rabi, ABR,CM,CRB,FHS,PB,RB
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Discharging a firearm in a residential area in Texas, backwards as we may be, is also a crime. Discharging a firearm in the act of protecting property, is not. Several instances have occurred, and property owners have been no-billed by grand juries for excercising this right.
RB Byrd
http://www.dejavuduband.com
Flower Mound, TX
RB Byrd
Flower Mound, TX
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