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Originally Posted by EdwardA
I understand that the Black community has a high tolerance for crime but in normal communities this would be 17 too many.
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Most normal communities of this size have at least that many "thefts" and "burglaries" or more.
You do realize that theft and burglary do not equate "break-ins" right. If you find your wallet missing and call the police to report it (which most of the time you must do if you lose credit cards) then that is registered as a "theft." For your high IQ (and just to brag I bet mine is higher
) you sure don't know much about crime statistics and what each category means. Even "burglary" is not always considered a "break in." If you have a party/get-together with friends and something comes up missing it is a "burglary."
Also, you do know that more thefts occur at sporting events and large destination places like amusement parks than anywhere else right??? So evidently everyone has a high tolerance for theft. People who visit the city I live in would be surprised to know that the highest level of theft, larceny, and burglary in the city are in the downtown area, which is the case in most major cities and even minor cities with tourist areas.
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Originally Posted by Hot_Handz
LOL @ 17 break ins over a year being considered "trivial"....
That's hilarious.....
Again, it was not "area" it was in his COMPLEX
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See above, theft and burglary are not necessarily "break-ins." And for a complex of that size that is probably average in a decent neighborhood.
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Originally Posted by EdwardA
She said 17 robberies and a shooting are no big deal. I mean this is a prime example of why crime is allowed to take root in the black community.
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They are not a big deal. I'm sure you have had more thefts, larceny, and burglary in your own neighborhood than this apartment complex has had. Also like I said, a shooting is not necessarily a killing of someone or even shooting at someone. I visit relatives in rural areas quite often. My relatives like to shoot guns for target practice, like many people do. If someone hears the shots and calls authorities it is listed as a "shooting."
You should quit putting race on things and live in reality. All of the great neighborhoods here in my city have more thefts, larcenies, and burglaries in a year than this complex.
Also, you all have failed to mention that the one "shooting" could actually have been that of Trayvon, one not perpetuated by a suspicious black male.
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Originally Posted by EdwardA
Remember this was a gated community.
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What has that got to do with anything. In your article it stated that people were allowed to go in and out all the time. Gate communities are suppose to lock out bad elements but that is not true most of the time.
FWIW I work in housing and specifically apartment property management. All of our communities are gated. All of our communities, except 1 has an equal amount of units as the one where Trayvon was killed and all of ours have an equal amount of theft, burglary, larceny, and even shootings because if one of our resident hears a shot or what they think is a shot from outside the community and calls the police, it is listed as a shooting.
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Originally Posted by Hot_Handz
It's bad....for a complex of 240 units? If I heard there was a break in roughly every 2 1/2 weeks... I'd be looking out too.
There hasn't been a single break-in in my complex since I been here (13 months).
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Like I said above. Break-ins are not theft, they are not even associated with stealing from inside of the unit/apartment/townhouse, so right there you can cut off half of that statistic and that leaves you with....I'll even give you 9 for an increase that MAY have included a break-in but more than likely half of those weren't break ins either.
Also how do you know about any of the theft, larceny, burglary statistics at your community? I highly doubt no one has lost a wallet/purse or debit/credit card in 13 months of you living there and they reporting it to the police. These sorts of crimes usually aren't told to residents unless there is a substantial increase in burglaries specifically, which includes breaking and entering. They don't want to broadcast crime as it may deter housing applicants.
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