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How's crime / theft in your areas these days?
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Johnny Best
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Eforce, did you grt that memo from Nancy Pelosi? You need to chill for the next four years because your woke ass buddies are going to be gone.
Eforcer
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Nope not WOKE! Especially now that Daddy's Home again.
Stacey K
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Small town Wisconsin here. Not a ton of crime to speak of. My building has not gotten broken into.
I used to leave the house doors open but cop bought the rental house behind me and is renting to his drug dealer sons. The police won't do "much" because his dad is a cop.
We have 3 half-way houses on the block next to me and one of the ladies broke into the neighbors house because she's mentally ill.
We had one homeless young man who has scitzo I believe. He broke into a cops house in town and wanted to "talk to his wife" but the wife wasn't home and the guy was standing over his sons bed. He guy got into trouble but he's out of jail and lives with him mom.
I just heard we have 2 more homeless people in town who have been found sleeping in garages.
The crime isn't really our own citizens its the ones being brought in or moving here.
I used to leave the house doors open but cop bought the rental house behind me and is renting to his drug dealer sons. The police won't do "much" because his dad is a cop.
We have 3 half-way houses on the block next to me and one of the ladies broke into the neighbors house because she's mentally ill.
We had one homeless young man who has scitzo I believe. He broke into a cops house in town and wanted to "talk to his wife" but the wife wasn't home and the guy was standing over his sons bed. He guy got into trouble but he's out of jail and lives with him mom.
I just heard we have 2 more homeless people in town who have been found sleeping in garages.
The crime isn't really our own citizens its the ones being brought in or moving here.
TopFliteGraphics
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Here on the Treasure Coast of Florida, we are pretty good. We had a rash of petty thefts and catalytic converter thieves hitting the are back in 2021 and 2022. They eventually caught the groups doing it and surprise surprise surprise, they were all from Miami-Dade county and many not here legally.
Meanwhile, about an hour south of me, I have a good friend down in Palm Beach County that has had his life become a living hell because his neighborhood has been "invaded" by people with very questionable legal status. He lives in a small pocket where the police have basically given up enforcing the laws and it shows. He has been beaten in his own yard, stabbed at a Walmart parking lot, had everything stolen out of his Jeep, involved in a head on collision with a drunken, wrong-way driving, car load of illegal immigrants (who have since disappeared) plus had to call the police more times than you can shake a stick at due to loud music/parties/gun shots/fireworks at 2-3 am. Not to mention, nothing being safe overnight in his front yard and his house being broken into numerous times. He has lived in the same house for over 30 years. It was once a nice, quiet little neighborhood. Now, it looks like a third world country. He lives about 5-1/2 miles from Mara-Lago as the crow flies but it may as well be a different country.
Meanwhile, about an hour south of me, I have a good friend down in Palm Beach County that has had his life become a living hell because his neighborhood has been "invaded" by people with very questionable legal status. He lives in a small pocket where the police have basically given up enforcing the laws and it shows. He has been beaten in his own yard, stabbed at a Walmart parking lot, had everything stolen out of his Jeep, involved in a head on collision with a drunken, wrong-way driving, car load of illegal immigrants (who have since disappeared) plus had to call the police more times than you can shake a stick at due to loud music/parties/gun shots/fireworks at 2-3 am. Not to mention, nothing being safe overnight in his front yard and his house being broken into numerous times. He has lived in the same house for over 30 years. It was once a nice, quiet little neighborhood. Now, it looks like a third world country. He lives about 5-1/2 miles from Mara-Lago as the crow flies but it may as well be a different country.
dypinc
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After checking Palm Beach County local officials I can see that is what they voted for.
TopFliteGraphics
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Sadly, you are correct. One of the bluest counties in the state. For years the local congressman in one of the districts was a convicted, impeached former federal judge. He was convicted on corruption charges but it didn't matter to people because he had a "D" after his name so they kept electing him.
dypinc
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Or did they?
WildWestDesigns
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Considering we had political machines like Tammany Hall in NY and we had the Box 13 scandal in south Texas, who really knows.
Ironically, it was Pelosi that said back during the Gore v Bush days that questioning elections is apart of what makes our system so great (although it tended to be one sided, but I digress).
So much political talk!
Anyways... Finally got the solar Wifi camera up. I set it up to push a notification as well as E-mail me when theres motion after 6 PM...we close at 4. Caught 2 cars just "chilling" in our parking lot.... Caught a guy doing donuts in the culde-sac... I wish the camera was louder so I could play shit to make people go away... but at least theyre on video. It's nice... it'll auto track them and keep them in the frame and move with them. Next step is to install a bullhorn where I can wifi through and tell them to GTFO the property... There is a few pre-made solution that play a siren, but then I'd be in another eco-system and not sure how well they work. The Camera is great though, ties into our existing system and is completelly wireless, It charged to 100% on a rainy day... and I've been remoting into it, downloading videos and everything, and it's still at 99%.
- Guy deciding to do donuts...
- This is it tracking a car and moving along with it... This one is a cop car (We were told to give this unit a heads up whenever we got an alert and they'd stop by and shoo people away for the next few weeks due to our break in... sadly the 2 cars that were there left before they did.) Video quality is nice... Its mounted up pretty high and looking down at a weird angle though, when lights are by the plate it cant read it due to the reflection, which kind of sucks...when the car is stationary it can. But for a $120 camera, not going to complain... It's mainly there to deter people. Fun fact... that white door you see on the bottom left near the end is the door they angle grinded through. was a $450 door to replace, but its finally replaced... adding a vinyl wrap to the front as well as reinforcing it with some layers of aluminum and rubber and few other surprises that will destroy an angle grinder disk.
it has a small light, ontop of the solar flood light we installed - It'll turn on when its tracking so people can see it... And its mounted right above the utility room door, but has 360 so it can swing around to see the front door too.
Just ordered 2 more cameras... one for the other side of our parking lot / building, and one for the other side of our building thats just fire doors and windows... I have a camera system, but running POE on the roof was a pain in the butt so I slacked off and didnt do it for years. For a few hundred bucks, a system that records and uploads all videos to FTP as well as saves it to an SD Card... and alerts me the moment it detects someone... Well worth the price. At minimal I get alerted someone is there, and even if you can't see the plate or their face because its covered they wont have hours to try to break in.
Of course if they want to get in, they'll still get in. But between all the wired and wireless cameras that will send notifications as soon as they detect someone and movement in key areas... At least we'll know they are there.
Cops said with the amount of work, and how they went right for the power they think it was an "Inside job" for lack of better terms - not an employee, but first thing they did was ask if we got new equipment... which we did, a F1612 worth 100k CAD maybe a month or two ago... So their running theory is someone blabbed about having new equipment, and one of their friends tried to break into the building to get it. Seems a bit farfetched to me, but it also seems a bit more co-ordinated than our usual crackhead break in attempts, so who knows.
(100% sure it's not an employee because half of them have keys, and the reason the other half dont is because theyre not smart enough to know to shut the power to the building off.... plus they all know we have indoor cameras that are on backup battery power)
Anyways... Finally got the solar Wifi camera up. I set it up to push a notification as well as E-mail me when theres motion after 6 PM...we close at 4. Caught 2 cars just "chilling" in our parking lot.... Caught a guy doing donuts in the culde-sac... I wish the camera was louder so I could play shit to make people go away... but at least theyre on video. It's nice... it'll auto track them and keep them in the frame and move with them. Next step is to install a bullhorn where I can wifi through and tell them to GTFO the property... There is a few pre-made solution that play a siren, but then I'd be in another eco-system and not sure how well they work. The Camera is great though, ties into our existing system and is completelly wireless, It charged to 100% on a rainy day... and I've been remoting into it, downloading videos and everything, and it's still at 99%.
it has a small light, ontop of the solar flood light we installed - It'll turn on when its tracking so people can see it... And its mounted right above the utility room door, but has 360 so it can swing around to see the front door too.
Just ordered 2 more cameras... one for the other side of our parking lot / building, and one for the other side of our building thats just fire doors and windows... I have a camera system, but running POE on the roof was a pain in the butt so I slacked off and didnt do it for years. For a few hundred bucks, a system that records and uploads all videos to FTP as well as saves it to an SD Card... and alerts me the moment it detects someone... Well worth the price. At minimal I get alerted someone is there, and even if you can't see the plate or their face because its covered they wont have hours to try to break in.
Of course if they want to get in, they'll still get in. But between all the wired and wireless cameras that will send notifications as soon as they detect someone and movement in key areas... At least we'll know they are there.
Cops said with the amount of work, and how they went right for the power they think it was an "Inside job" for lack of better terms - not an employee, but first thing they did was ask if we got new equipment... which we did, a F1612 worth 100k CAD maybe a month or two ago... So their running theory is someone blabbed about having new equipment, and one of their friends tried to break into the building to get it. Seems a bit farfetched to me, but it also seems a bit more co-ordinated than our usual crackhead break in attempts, so who knows.
(100% sure it's not an employee because half of them have keys, and the reason the other half dont is because theyre not smart enough to know to shut the power to the building off.... plus they all know we have indoor cameras that are on backup battery power)
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