Jeri we're supposed to discuss crime in the United States and what can be done about it
yes
that's a rather rather broad topic
they're usually pretty broad anyway
yeah
where do you live
uh we live in Plano um and where are you
okay so i'm in Richardson so when i heard the topic i was thinking of the thing down at um Maceo High School in Dallas
uh-huh
right right that is so frightening
it is you know
um do you have children in school yeah
no mine are already in college now so uh i don't have to
at least when they were in high school it was beginning but not like the rampages
well i have my oldest is his first year in high school so we have all this to to look forward to and it is really frightening um to think that you can't even
send them to school in safety i mean certainly you know you can't just turn them loose in the middle of Dallas but you know when you can't even send them on their normal
activities in safety it it's really frightening
that's true
and uh i really you know they're coming down on the principal but i really don't know
what they can do i mean it's just in so much of society
with the violence and the kids having access to weapons and drugs and i i really don't know what what can be done
yeah well i just i just don't understand how of course in my little world how guns could be so available
well i don't either but apparently they just really are um
i mean you to me in Plano you would think that would be about you know about as innocent as you could get for for being in a a large
area but you know my son comes home and tells me that you know he hears kids talk about having guns and um someone came to his football practice about two weeks ago with a gun
oh my heavens
and i mean it just scared me to death and you know they called the police and and nothing happened but my goodness you know it it could have easily
well maybe that's the answer to crime is getting more prosecution
maybe so
you know because
i don't now i somehow i feel we're living in an impartial society
as far as people seeing something happen you know across the street or
seeing someone get mugged or unfortunately raped and people don't do anything
yeah
a woman was raped in Richardson i read in the paper oh about a two weeks ago now and all the neighbors said they heard her yelling for help
oh no
but nobody nobody did anything
i just can't imagine that um
you know i mean they heard someone calling for help
nobody even called the police to say you know i hear a strange screaming
right
i'm afraid you know if you i don't blame people with today's society about going out to help themselves because
right well i can see you know especially even if you heard screams from a house or something not going over there maybe because you know it could be dangerous but certainly i can't understand not calling the police
yeah
i
i just you know it's
it's really frightening that we're not we're trying to live in our own little cocoons and probably one of the best things we could do for crime is to participate ourselves in its prevention
right well i i think you're right there i guess people just kind of keep their noses pointed in their own business but i think that's real dangerous and uh
i don't know i try tell my kids just just kind of be aware of what's around them you know and
if you see a situation that looks like it could be trouble just get out of it or call for help whichever but um
yes
yeah well you know the call for help is what scares me now because
it it just i don't know people just don't i don't know i can't say they don't care because people just have to care about another person
yeah
but it's that not getting involved that impersonal
society i think we live in today
well maybe this thing with with the child at school maybe that'll make people think a bit more and
you know take some steps to to correct it i don't know it's it really is is frightening i uh
yeah let me ask you getting back to your son's football practice because it really sort of bothers me that police aren't doing he didn't have a license for the gun correct
i don't know i mean i don't know the details this was not a child that was on the team it was someone that
um showed you know just kind of showed up at the field
uh-huh
um it was a a student age person but i'm not even
