Good post Glenn Dee. I lived in a badly gang occupied neighborhood on the South side of Tucson for about 8 months. During that short time I had 2 cars taken, 8 tires and rims on two 4x4s were almost taken, we interupted them and didn't relaize it until the next moring when my left front wheel fell off a couple of blocks from the house and discovered all the lugs were off of both 4x4s. Our cars all had the stereo systems taken, radar detectors taken, tools, I really can't remeber all of the thefts thre were so many. My entire family banded together and spent the evenings walking our small middle class subdivision armed to the teeth and carrying really good spot lights. Those puncks did't like it at all when we began hunting them and chasing them out of our neighborhaood. I thought law enforcement would not like us patroling the neighborhood armed and stopping thugs on the sidewalks at 1 or 2 AM and writitng down their names and photographing their tats. But the response was very supportive from them. The head of the gang task force gave us his personal cell phone number and another number that would get us all the law enforcement back up needed in less than a couple of minutes. They would respond blacked out and have a chopper jonny on the spot. My Son's and I also managed to recover our stollen cars and learned a lot about the perpetrators who had some of the tools and other property stollen, getting a couple of them charged with recieving stollen property.
Getting involved makes a difference and is the only way to drive this type of element out of our neighborhoods. They don't like being hunted and are much easier to intimidate than most would think. The really sad fact is more than half of the perpetrators doing the thefts were teenagers between 14 and 18.
Getting involved makes a difference and is the only way to drive this type of element out of our neighborhoods. They don't like being hunted and are much easier to intimidate than most would think. The really sad fact is more than half of the perpetrators doing the thefts were teenagers between 14 and 18.