[speaker001:] is crime a problem in Arlington
[speaker002:] uh actually we live out in Gainesville Virginia and uh my wife is originally from the Bronx so for the longest time we didn't have any any kind of crime protection on our house at all because we lived way out in the country here
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh then you know over the years we visited her folks and her folks have probably the most impressive crime reduction system I've ever seen on any house you know they have grates across every single window they have probably three or four dead bolts on every door um just uh an amazing array of um you know sort of security measures on their house I mean it's harder to get into their house than it is probably a lot of minimum security prisons
[speaker001:] well huh
[speaker002:] so anyway now she's turning our house into sort of the same thing we have uh we have like grates on the on the uh door on the basement windows even though there's very little crime in this area
[speaker001:] huh well uh-huh
[speaker002:] and we just had a a guy come out a locksmith come out and put all those on as well as sort of reinforce all of our dead bolts and uh put new locks in on some doors and fix our French doors up so that they were you know secure
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so
[speaker001:] yeah it it's too bad you mentioned uh your in-laws place as as being like a prison in sense of hard to get into or out of or whatever
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] that's what crime is doing in the cities it's turning those that live in the cities into prisoners
[speaker002:] yeah what's it like in Dallas
[speaker001:] uh actually I'm in a suburb of Dallas where it's safer in general than it is in the big city
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] it um I think it's like most cities and that is the high crime areas are the ones where there's more poverty
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] the you know that there's always one part of town
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] uh whether it's the Bronx or whether it's a certain area in Dallas or whatever uh I I think that's where the crime is concentrated but gosh we just there was just one over in Fort Worth a woman was killed and her husband was uh badly injured
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and they've charged the uh the husband's daughter with hiring two of her teenage friends to kill her
[speaker002:] oh man
[speaker001:] dad and stuff yeah
[speaker002:] man incredible
[speaker001:] isn't that incredible and I mean uh that that's crime that's that you don't usually think about I mean you if you if you're going to carry on a conversation about crime you know you think of the hardened criminal that keeps uh attacking attacking again and again if you will whether you know depending on what his game is maybe it's an armed robber who does it all the time but this is uh
[speaker002:] yeah yeah yeah it's clearly I I mean it's they're not in category of business criminals I mean there's there's criminals who are in it just because that's their business you know I mean that's their trade essentially and
[speaker001:] oh yeah yeah
[speaker002:] you know then there's then there's the really random acts of violence we actually had a a woman who was very close to our house which sort of inspired my wife to you know beef up our own security measures here uh she was a couple of houses away and her husband travels a lot and is gone you know for weeks on end and she was upstairs with her uh child and heard somebody say hello hello from downstairs
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so she immediately calls 911 and the Prince William County police come over and of course the woman kept her on the phone the whole time which I thought was a really good security measure because you know if you can get 911 Gainesville Virginia you know you're probably you know I mean it's probably a pretty effective thing you know
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] um so anyway the police showed up and they told her the person on the phone told her to run you know take the child and run downstairs and to let the police in because they were at her front door
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and so she did that and when she opened the front door she'd just bought this new German Shepherd puppy which had apparently you know uh gone all over the floor so the the policeman stepped into the front door and actually started sliding around on you know the dog mess
[speaker001:] oh no
[speaker002:] and she yelled simultaneously yelled look out which the policeman thought was like somebody's about to shoot me so you know he's like spinning around in this stuff you know I mean it's a pretty comical scene but anyway when the guy finally regained his balance you know he just like get out of house lady and stop trying to help me but anyway later on it's it's gonna it's uh she they didn't find anything I mean apparently you know if the guy came in he ran out and and the police tried to convince her that it was the dog playing with the remote control on the TV which just doesn't make any sense at all too the odds of that are just really unlikely but I actually went over
[speaker001:] hum
[speaker002:] about a week later he was back home and she was on travel and he locked himself out and I went over and within I would say about five seconds got into their garage door
[speaker001:] oh ho