we're supposed to talk about crime in the city
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and uh seems like all big cities have plenty of that nowadays doesn't it
well uh i uh that's sure um
i think i think it's statistics statistics obviously vary greatly i always thought of Dallas as being a fairly safe place
well it is but our crimes up here uh is i think it must be in most cities now
but i was listening to the news the other day and they said they thought a lot of it the reason it was up so was because of the uh so many people are without work nowadays
economy's so bad
do you really believe that i mean it it's been up every year for many years and the economy hasn't been this bad for so long has it
well that's a good point that's just what they quoted over the news
yeah
uh i don't know if i'll believe that or not but it it does seem up and uh
what kind of newspaper do you get down there
what kind
yeah
well we got a i think we got a pretty good newspaper uh we have two the Morning News and the uh Times Herald
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Morning News seems to have the largest circulation i think it's a pretty good it's a locally owned paper the Herald is owned i think by the Times out of uh LA or somewhere
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yes do do they do they play up the local crime angles or do or do they
but
well they don't no not really uh they don't play it up i don't think uh
but there there is too much of it you know uh too many homes broken into we had our our fact about uh last year sometime our home was broken into
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yeah
really so this is a topic of personal interest
we
yeah we uh uh i didn't think ours ever would be burgled into burgled but so many in our neighborhood had been
and uh because we live on a corner and back up to a real uh highly traveled main
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street but uh we were so uh
yeah
so so you saw this happening in your neighborhood and you figured it wouldn't happen to you
sort of yeah and i never did get a security system but since that happened i certainly have
yeah what kind of system do you have
it's uh uh i guess excuse me just a standard uh
with the uh all the doors and uh
uh infrared thing you know motion detector pretty pretty standard
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is this is this one with some company that that services you and takes your calls and all that stuff
yes yes it's monitored and all that uh
yeah
well is is that a necessary feature to have somebody you know at the other end of the line or is it enough just to have a thing that makes loud noise
and
i think uh the thing that makes a lot of noise would would suffice i really do
yeah
but uh this deal that was part of it for you know
three years or so you pay the unit off or whatever
yes
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and uh
but it uh the monitoring's not that bad though because uh
uh we've goofed it up you know several times you'll hit the
wrong key not intentionally or something and and they call back pretty quickly so i i guess it's you know i think it's all right but i to answer your question i think uh uh i think uh that is a pretty good deterrent in itself whether it
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yeah
so so so you got a sign up there that says you got this alarm system and what if a burglar comes along and cuts your phone line
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well it's got a back up system that doesn't work supposedly that uh if it's cut supposedly it notifies them anyway
supposedly who knows you know
how does it do that
but that's the selling point and i think they're probably i think it probably does these things are
supposedly supposedly pretty good
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boy they sure advertise them you know so many of them nowadays
oh sure
but uh well don't y'all don't y'all have a pretty high crime rate up there
well yeah um
i'm not saying it's any higher than anybody else's down here we seem to or or not here but the statistics seem to say that i don't know
i i think it's the murder capital of the country now
is that right
yes
i would gather probably from drugs
absolutely
and i think that's the reason it's so high everywhere
yeah
but i don't think there's anyplace used to years ago you thought well these little small cities and all wouldn't have that problem but they do
yeah
we've had relatives that their children were just as involved in it uh as anyone you know
so so so what's the solution
that's a good question i don't know i don't know what the solution is i really don't
and all these politicians make make hay over you know being anticrime but
yeah
yep
they haven't seemed to have changed anything
the and nothing seems to change and uh i'm not sure that anything will because these if something could happen to make these people not wanna buy it
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uh but they wanna buy it so supplying and demand long as somebody wants to buy it somebody's gonna provide it for them
yeah
so i don't know i don't you know i don't know what the solution is i really don't
yeah
i don't think anyone does in fact
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