[speaker001:] Jeri we're supposed to discuss crime in the United States and what can be done about it
[speaker002:] yes that's a rather rather broad topic
[speaker001:] they're usually pretty broad anyway
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] where do you live
[speaker002:] uh we live in Plano um and where are you
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] uh-huh right right that is so frightening
[speaker001:] it is you know
[speaker002:] um do you have children in school yeah
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] that's true
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah well I just I just don't understand how of course in my little world how guns could be so available
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] oh my heavens
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] well maybe that's the answer to crime is getting more prosecution
[speaker002:] maybe so
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] oh no
[speaker001:] but nobody nobody did anything
[speaker002:] I just can't imagine that um
[speaker001:] you know I mean they heard someone calling for help nobody even called the police to say you know I hear a strange screaming
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] I'm afraid you know if you I don't blame people with today's society about going out to help themselves because
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but it's that not getting involved that impersonal society I think we live in today
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] um it was a a student age person but I'm not even