"We Live in a Good Neighborhood"

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This looks like a very good neighborhood....

The problems are a tad worrisome, however: an epidemic of car break-ins, and much more importantly, residents are afraid to go outside at night.

Man!

This is Fenton, MO, 20 miles from the Gateway to the West. But folks are breaking in all over the county.

The perps, the ill behaved twits that they are, are mobile.

Crime is up hundreds of percentage points over last year.

Of all the gaul--breaking in under bright lights, in full view of the Ring Doorbell.

The police say "go ahead and take notes", and do take the time to call 911.

In the City of St. Louis, the police do not respond to reports of auto theft.

The good news is, car theft is down--they can't take the car without the smart key.

The bad news is that they can't take the car without the smart key.

In point of fact, having one's car broken into is a rather minor aggravation, compared to car-jacking, which can lead to one's last automobile ride.

And car jacking is busting out all over.

What to do? Lock your cars and doors; don't walk outside at night; be alert for carjackers; and have a plan for dealing with car jackers if necessary.

Oh, and do get a Ring Doorbell.

Walking the dog at night? Well, two great big ones....

www.kmov.com/news/camera-footage-catches-suspects-breaking-into-cars-in-fenton-rise-in-break-ins-across-county/article_770772bc-0203-11ec-a73f-fb88afcf32af.html#tncms-source=block-contextual-fallback
 
NIGHTLORD40K said:
Keep them cleaned and oiled folks, stack your ammo deep, and have a plan. Its going to get worse before it gets any better.
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You can say that again and again. To the OP, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I really don't think there are good neighborhoods anymore, let me rephrase that. Even if you live in a good neighborhood, these miscreants come from the next town over and rob and pillage. Everyone needs to keep their head on a swivel now more than ever. I have a ccw and I know folks may laugh, but when I cut the grass I have my pistol on me. You can never assume, well I feel safe here and nothing has ever happened. There is a first time for everything. I live in the sticks in Tn. only about 5,500 people in this county, there is crime here also, not as much but there is. It would take a deputy 30+ minutes to get to my house, bullets travel 1,000+ fps, you choose!! I am a LEO supporter, but they cannot keep me safe, they come after the fact and if someone gets killed they have the chalk for the outline!! Each person is responsible for their own safety, dads are responsible for the entire family. Be safe out there folks!!
 
#1 rationalization for carrying something minimal by choice (carrying less than in area of perceived greater threat) is "good area".
If one carries the same regardless of location, that doesn't apply.
 
You have to be aware and prepared.

But don't let it overwhelm you. Modern people are spending way too much time with a magnifying glass on the warts. Don't forget to look up every once in a while and be thankful for all of the good things that make up the majority of our lives.

I do the same thing. My area is filled with meth and fentanyl. Low income rural area. You don't see a lot of opportunity out there. Wal Mart is the biggest employer. It can be overwhelming.

But I'm as of right now safe, well fed, with healthy family, in a nice house with a nice yard for our dogs, about to go have a bbq and watch some baseball. Looking forward to some watermelon and homemade peach pie later. Life is good, and try not to let the talking heads on the squawk box convince you otherwise.
 
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Everything is changing rapidly. Just three years ago I moved into a quiet neighborhood 20 miles east of downtown Dallas and it has grown tremendously since then. Wealthy Californians are eagerly buying up houses and rent them to the government as section 8 houses. While I live in the better part of this town, it is just a matter of time when crime will spill over here more often and the trend is there.

On the bright side, I had a great morning at the range and, while I am not really happy with the results compared to ten years ago, the timer showed that I have improved over the last months. Now I just need the ammo crisis to be over to get 10,000 rounds of 9mm that I urgently need for practice.

I am tired of dry fire practice and drawing.
 
Encoreman said:
To the OP, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I really don't think there are good neighborhoods anymore, let me rephrase that. Even if you live in a good neighborhood, these miscreants come from the next town over and rob and pillage.
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That, of course, was my entire point.

champ0608 said:
Modern people are spending way too much time with a magnifying glass on the warts. ... Life is good, and try not to let the talking heads on the squawk box convince you otherwise.
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I do not understand what it is that you are trying to say.

PzGren said:
Everything is changing rapidly.
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Very rapidly.
 
I was vacationing in Galveston early summer when a newscast reported a couple had been tailed home 30 miles across Houston from an upscale mall. They were assaulted when they arrived and opened the garage door to park their motorcycles. It appears the gang was from further south than Mexico and used Central America tactics where hostages are taken and the home ransacked for whatever money and possessions they can haul off.

There have been more than one million border crossers in the last year, over 250,000 last month. This is not going away and it's going to force people to stop ignoring what is going on in this Administration. We cannot keep hiding behind a veneer of "no talking dirty politics" and face the fact we are in the middle of an international war.

You either start shouting at your legislative reps or we will eventually have to resort to the next amendment. Be blunt with them and make the point, especially those who appear conservative but who vote the opposite. They aren't pro America if they keep supporting anti American Administative policies.

Pray for the 10,000 plus Americans and soldiers abandoned in Afghanistan.
 
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Kleanbore said:
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I do not understand what it is that you are trying to say.
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Missing the bigger picture and living in a micro environment will work for a short time and keep your belly full. Let the next generation worry. It is a lot like a ride in a fast imported luxury car, going at full speed downhill to the end of the road at the slope and enjoying your Bose system.
 
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It points out exactly where most of these "immigrants' are being bused and should you call around, you may find a lot of the better hotels are booked. With nothing to do all day, food stamps, etc., they are falling back into their old habits and doing what third world armies do - forage offf the local noncombatants.

It is entirely the point of leaving the border wide open - it's a way to terrorize Americans in their suburban neighborhoods and we were told that by peaceful protesters last summer it was coming. It's an obvious tell who is behind it, they always warn us what is next and then do it.

But, too many of us just kept going to work and trying to comply.

You cannot comply your way out of tyranny.
 
missouri is a red state, so i would assume you are going to get a lot of immigrants in the next year and a half. is there a lot of section 8 housing going up in the st. louis area?

times are changing. you may want to start going out-and-about with someone and not alone.

murf
 
Bad guys have vehicles. They know where the "good" neighborhoods are, and that vehicles there are likely to have pilferable valuables (including firearms) in them over night. Posts on Neighborhood.com over the past 30 months I have lived here have averaged maybe once every three months a report, sometimes with video, of miscreants wandering through the "nice" neighborhoods after midnight checking vehicle doors for unlocked. Usually they only open unlocked vehicles, but there have been several reports of broken windows, and at least three reports of guns stolen from cars overnight.

1. Lock your darn cars and trucks!
2. DO NOT leave guns in your vehicles overnight.

Here are two screenshots from my home security video showing a team of such miscreants in my driveway at 3:47 am last October.
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For most of America, it's not where you live, but where you go. The
"ne'er do well's" tend to "go for you" in the parking lot at markets,
ATM's, and other "public places"; that's where you need to have
your head on a swivel and your pistol on your side.
 
Half of the home owners in my neighborhood have a "mulch pit" dug out in their back yard. Even the city cop. Crime is lowest in this neighborhood compared to the rest of the city.

The biggest help is the huge acerage just north of my little suburb neighborhood. The owners there seem to hunt deer 24/7 all year long. Constant gunfire keeps the riff raff away.

Professional criminals know which areas have the most resolve and anger.

Christmas packages stolen, is the only crime we have here. Those are amateurs though. One of my neighbors T-boned a minivan with his truck last year to catch somebody.

If your neighbors are sissies?.......move. You dont want to live in a neighborhood of easy marks.
 
The best place to be is in a neighborhood that looks like it has nothing to steal. The only problem with that is when the gangs or groups start fighting between each other, then everyone is in the sights.
 
Rich people have less frivolities to steal than ever before. And the jewelry and guns are locked up in heavy safes.

Those neighborhoods are good for checking for unlocked cars with stuff in them, and little more. Dirt bikes and such in the garage.

If they get hit, it's an inside job. Friend, someone new at your previous pool party, or a home contractor, plumber, etc.

Bad neighborhoods, filled with people that make stupid decisions, and are generally poorer, have all of the bling bling to steal. Cash tucked in a mattress or cabinet somewhere. Etc. Etc.
 
A “good” neighborhood only stays that way as long as the residents make it an undesirable target for bad guys. Have car/gun, will travel — from the “bad” parts of town into the soft, lucrative “nice” areas. Vigilance, taking steps at protection (like locking your cars and doors), and being prepared to respond to the threat are what it will take to persuade the criminals to go find an easier target. There are plenty of them…the trick is to make your lemon not worth the squeeze!
 
We live in a rural county for the most part with one major population center. We have a weekly news paper that includes the counties Sherriff's Dept. and one major population centers Police Dept. reports. We are not the epicenter of criminal activity but we do apparently have a illicit drug problem. Shooting incidents are extremely rare. With that said we have a concealed carry permit and thus carry a concealed weapon daily. Its like life insurance one of those things you don't anticipate using but you never know what's going to occur.
 
Kleanbore said:
This looks like a very good neighborhood....

The problems are a tad worrisome, however: an epidemic of car break-ins, and much more importantly, residents are afraid to go outside at night.

Man!

This is Fenton, MO, 20 miles from the Gateway to the West. But folks are breaking in all over the county.

The perps, the ill behaved twits that they are, are mobile.

Crime is up hundreds of percentage points over last year.

Of all the gaul--breaking in under bright lights, in full view of the Ring Doorbell.

The police say "go ahead and take notes", and do take the time to call 911.

In the City of St. Louis, the police do not respond to reports of auto theft.

The good news is, car theft is down--they can't take the car without the smart key.

The bad news is that they can't take the car without the smart key.

In point of fact, having one's car broken into is a rather minor aggravation, compared to car-jacking, which can lead to one's last automobile ride.

And car jacking is busting out all over.

What to do? Lock your cars and doors; don't walk outside at night; be alert for carjackers; and have a plan for dealing with car jackers if necessary.

Oh, and do get a Ring Doorbell.

Walking the dog at night? Well, two great big ones....

www.kmov.com/news/camera-footage-catches-suspects-breaking-into-cars-in-fenton-rise-in-break-ins-across-county/article_770772bc-0203-11ec-a73f-fb88afcf32af.html#tncms-source=block-contextual-fallback
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My aunt and uncle lived in Fenton Valley Park.I would love to see if place was still there.Sorry for the crime it’s everywhere,growing everyday.
 
Where I am living right now has a naïve lady who used to have a front door that was 22 years of neglect and a knob lock only, that if you wiggled it hard enough would just pop right open. I asked WHY, and the response was, we only had break ins twice here in 30 years so why bother? Needless to say the doors are replaced, locks SERIOUSLY upgraded, big dogs installed and firearms available, plus other security upgrades here and there. She still calls me paranoid and I replied I hope I am, I hope I am wasting all this time, sweat and money for nothing, but I am willing to bet that I am not, indeed, paranoid. And this is a good neighborhood with retirement communities mixed with families who have been neighbors for over 100 years. But folks are moving in left and right, and things are changing.
 
Neighborhood? What is that?

Please excuse this country boy in the sticks.

And before folks scream meth heads or drugs we've been here for years and haven't run into that.

Doesn't mean I don't keep my powder dry and am ready for such an encounter.

Its just that I don't much comprehend city or suburb crime. Its just not an issue way out here.
 
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