orlando residents ok with crime (Maitland, Mayo: work, agent, community)

[CalisterKaley]

Leaders: Orlando Residents Are Tolerating Crimes

POSTED: 5:36 pm EDT August 8, 2006
UPDATED: 6:47 pm EDT August 8, 2006
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Orlando may have broken a decades-old murder record Tuesday but community leaders said the biggest problem is that residents are tolerating the crimes, according to a Local 6 News report.

"It hurts me to go into some of these neighborhoods and folks are accepting the fact that Joe is on the corner until 11 p.m. selling drugs in their front yard under their tree," Orlando Police Chief Michael McCoy said. "They should not have to accept that."

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said the community must help to curb the rising crime rate.

"In some neighborhoods, there is a culture of silence and you could have 50 people standing around a crime scene and none of them saw anything," Dyer said. "OPD and the city can't do it by themselves. It has to be a community effort."

McCoy told Local 6 News that he believes the rise in the crime rate comes from a lack of respect for teachers, families and each other.

"We have a population of young people who have some how been missed, abandoned if you will, and they have lost the golden rule, do unto others as you would have them do unto you," Orlando police Chief Michael McCoy said.

Christopher Charles, 51, of Maitland, was Orlando's 37th homicide victim this year, breaking the record of 36 set in 1982 amid gang turf wars over crack cocaine.

If killings continue at this pace, Orlando could find itself with a per-capita murder rate in the top 15 nationally -- well above its ranking of 107 two years ago, the last year for which full FBI crime data is available.

http://www.local6.com/news/9649358/detail.html

the numbers speak for themselves

I would hate to tell you - told you so

[CalisterKaley]

Second Person Arrested In OIA Gun, Marijuana Smuggling

POSTED: 4:43 pm EST March 7, 2007
UPDATED: 5:33 pm EST March 7, 2007

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A second person is under arrest in a gun and drug smuggling bust that raises serious questions about security at Orlando International Airport.

Zabdiel Santiago-Balaguer is accused of paying another man to bring a duffle bag full of guns and drugs onto a plane bound for Puerto Rico. They both work for Comair and Eyewitness News has learned other airport employees were involved.

Santiago-Balaguer, 22, was stopped from boarding Delta flight 933 from Orlando to Puerto Rico on Monday, after Orlando police got a tip about the guns. He was searched, but released after agents found nothing. But 22-year-old Thomas Munoz was able to stay onboard and fly to Puerto Rico with the guns.

Court documents show the two men went to Orlando International Airport at three o'clock in the morning on Monday in their Comair uniforms, skirted the security checkpoint using their airport ID cards to get through restricted areas and put the duffel bag, filled with 14 guns and ammunition and eight pounds of marijuana, in the departure ramp area.

http://www.wftv.com/news/11195351/detail.html

not even the orl airport is safe - imagine the streets - yeah its that bad

[mattncind]

[/quote]not even the orl airport is safe - imagine the streets - yeah its that bad[/quote]

Please tell me you are exaggerating to make your point. Yes Orlando has a growing crime problem, but you do understand how many security breaches happen in US airports everyday dont you? I would hope so.

[rich renter]

not ok with it but not scared of it either