Last night when I got home from work, we heard siren after siren which we thought were fires. I have a scanner app on my tablet and tuned in, but I didn't hear anything other than a breathing problem situation at a street in the east end of town. This morning I went to the local Patch.com website and saw there was a shooting not far from my home, a drunken person who crashed into a day care center in the afternoon, and an article about a motorcycle being stolen, recovered, and then stolen again. Facebook didn't give any clues either.
The town I live in has its fair share of crime. Most of it is minor, vandalism stuff but in the last few years there have been more and more shootings. I suspect that many of the shootings have to do with drugs, but since I am not in that scene or have guns, I wouldn't know what causes people to want to shoot each other.
Many people have been complaining that there is too much crime and I agree. It is not an easy problem to fix and there is no easy solution. I think that more jobs could work toward less, but I also think that people need to take a stake in protecting their blocks by calling the police and actually testifying if they witness crimes happening. There are stories after stories of towns taking back their communities by standing up to criminals but it is not easy. Until people stand up for what they believe in and not hide behind their front doors, status quo will remain.
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