Police, Please Step Back into your House

I did have a situation in my first neighborhood where a boy went into my neighbor's yard and started annoying his dogs. I called the police, but he was gone before we even got off the phone.

I really don't think there is such a think as a safe place to live. Yes, you might live in a place that appears to be safe and in a town where there is little crime, however, who is to say that even in the safest of neighborhoods that someone from another town doesn't come in to your town to rob a house, commit a rape, kill someone. You just never know anymore. I don't think anyone really can say that they life in a totally safe area anymore. Did you ever find out what had happened next door to you?

Did you find out what was going on?? With stuff like that I'm almost more curious than scared. I've had to call the police a few times on strange stuff. The first time that comes to mind was when I was living in my first apartment by myself. I was leaving and noticed a man passed out on his first floor balcony. He had obviously peed his pants and it was about -10 celsius. I wasn't sure what to do so I knocked on that apartment's door, no one answered. I tried the landlord's door too and no one was there. Finally I called 911 because I really didn't know what else to do. We decided to sit and wait in the car just to see how long it would take them to get there and after about 15 minutes we gave up. I'm sure they finally came and scraped the drunk off his balcony but I couldn't believe how long it took!

i have not done reporting suspicious incidences. but honestly, i dont feel safe about the place i live.

Hello dora. nothing to be worry about because the police is in there so, I think your family is safety. I experienced that before too, and I am scared too but now, when something happened like that, I am braver now because i know that people never hurt us if we are not doing bad to them.

We're lucky that the place we live is pretty safe. I'm sure that the couple that lives 4 doors down are both police officers. And I think the lady that just moved in next door is also a cop because she knows the couple and she has the same habits as the cops. Anyway, needless to say, I've never seen anything suspicious right about where we live.

Yea I do report it and also I dont feel safe when we leave even to go to the store we padlock our door and it's not really a bad place to live just people breaking in it makes me wonder at times is any place really safe.

oh...that's a it scary...though its not wrong to give anything suspicious to police but yes...we all are scared of going to the police stations if at all the police call us there for some inquiries...also we are afraid of some threatening etc we might get from the people involved...but luckily for me...no such thing has happened in my life...all outside matters are handled by my hubby...so i just hear on phones if something has happened near his office or on the roads..he is talking about...but we are still lucky not to be troubled by any such matter seriously

I get nervous about reporting things. Usually not much happens around here thankfully. However, we have some renters on the end of our block who used to throw drinking parties 2-3x a week and block up our road with their cars. I did call one night as my windows were closed and I could hear them yelling out in the road in the wee hours. And as a matter of fact I made a discussion on here about if I should call or not ;0) Have you heard anything as to what was going on?

this happened in the last apartment complex we lived in before we were evicted. I was my lotting on my computer when the police helicopter kept hovering over our apt. and flashing lights into the lane beside out apartment. then I heard police whistles and dogs barking. There were about ten police officers going in and out of the shrubbery with flashlights and I finally got too curious. I went out in the walkway and was told politely to stay in my apartment. There were deputy sherrifs too as were just over the city line and usually in an emergency we were to phone the sheriff department not the Tustin police. My son came home only to be kept out of the complex until they gathered up the police dogs. They were looking for three men who had robbed a bank d owntown and they were told someone had seen them in ou r complex. That was a bit silly as it was a gated complex with pedestrian gate and car gate both keyed. so how did they get in? Finally they let my son in and he made me lock the door after him, what is so odd is the whole thing was never in the papers so we only had what the ond deputy sheriff had told my son.So I never did know all the particulars of that night. It was a huge complex built on a hilly p ice of land with one hundred twenty various apartments and townhouses. Could be of course that the men did get in there and someone helped them to escape but it never did come up in the local papers.

Scary.. better watch the news to see what's going on. Overall I do feel safe where we are. I never lock my doors or anything. I do not worry if I have to leave my kids in the car while I run into a gas station or something (I mean let's face it, who wants to get 2 little ones in and out of car seats if I'm just running in to pay for gas?). I know there is crime and trouble everywhere, and even though all my neighbors aren't the best kinds of people, I still do not worry about there being any sort of major crime in my area. The only times we've ever called police is when we thought we heard a really bad domestic dispute. That's been twice. Two different couples. Nothing happened with either, apparently they were just loud, but not violent.. or the women wouldn't press charges, who knows. After the 2nd one we felt sort of silly for calling the cops when it wasn't as bad as it looked, so we vowed we weren't doing that again.. we're going to keep our noses to ourselves unless we see the abuse with our own eyes.

Yes, I have reported things a few times around here. One was a truck that was parked in the church driveway two houses down. I called it in, told them the color of the truck and what it looked like. The next morning they were caught in a gas station with most of the mowers that were taken from the neighbors. Oh got one for you, I was on my computer one night and I thought I heard my car door shut on my car. I got up went out the front door to find two people trying to steal my car. they were trying to push it out of the driveway. All I can say is if I didn't go outside that night my car would of been gone. I feel these things happen most anywhere now days. With the economy the way it is, the harder it gets to even buy groceries for our home we are going to have more and more of this no matter where you live. We just make sure things are locked down, oh and at night the car tires are turned in one direction all the way and make sure the steering wheel is locked when car is turned off. This way if they try and push it again the car will go in circles for them. Unless they figure out how to start it without someone or my dog hearing them..

Firstly..... what fears come to you. It is right that you are suspicious that something wrong was happening there. Secondly.... as you said police officers are there, so it was their duty to give you the proper information on what was occurring there. Day by day situation is going tougher. New threat come to the life from different factor. It is a very vivid question ... are we really safe, where are we dwelling?

yes, friend .i agree with you.in our country. that's general for this kind of things . and so many bad things happen time and time. but police dont care about it. sometimes they just stay around the spot where is fighting . i feel they are just brave when the good things happen to them . so bad for this. so sometimes i won't phone police when i get something bad around.