[speaker001:] now then are you there okay
[speaker002:] yeah I'm here
[speaker001:] so they're recording everything now
[speaker002:] alrighty
[speaker001:] but you tell me the crime is rampant out there
[speaker002:] its really bad out here we just had a freeway shooting about three blocks from our house and on New Year's Eve you know how it's supposed to be bringing in the new year and everything the with the neighborhood we have around here it was automatic gunfire going off instead of fire works
[speaker001:] yes um well that's what we have had here in Dallas for oh for the past year we lost so many people due to crime this past year so what do you think is the solution to any of this
[speaker002:] well personally I've got two kids and personally I'd like to see them teach something about it like in schools not make it mandatory but an optional thing you know ways to avoid situations
[speaker001:] do you think drugs have any have
[speaker002:] I think it has a lot to do with it
[speaker001:] do you think that's the majority of our crime
[speaker002:] um well I'd say about half
[speaker001:] well I think here in Dallas we've got uh its greater than that I think you know like ninety percent of our crime is um connected with the the drug scene because we
[speaker002:] most
[speaker001:] beg your pardon go ahead
[speaker002:] most of our crime around here is uh it's gang related gang violence gangs fighting gangs and I think that's what really scares me because I mean around here if you like if you wear red
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] one gang will take offense to it
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] and if you wear black the other gang will take offense to it so you have to wear you know something neutral like blue in order not to get bothered around here I mean people get bothered at the grocery stores and everything its getting pretty bad
[speaker001:] you mean in their clothing they okay
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] well I did I'm not aware of that being part of our problem it's just that uh seems like these kids or older people that um need the drug need the money for the drugs and then they're shooting and we have we had a little boy in west uh well it's west of here was riding in the car with his mother and father on New Year's Eve night and someone fired into the car there were three children in the backseat and the little boy that was in the uh an infant seat was dead they did the the mother and father did not even realize
[speaker002:] oh no
[speaker001:] that there had been ah I mean they thought fire crackers and that sort of thing
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] and when they arrived where they were to have had celebrated New Year's they found this baby dead and the bullet hole directly behind the driver's seat
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] now this is something that my Lord something's got to give someone has to do something
[speaker002:] I know and it's the innocent people that are paying for it it's not even the people that are doing it that are paying for it it's the innocent ones that are dying from it and it's not fair
[speaker001:] well that's right yes no way can we um anyway I pray that you have a good New Year I hope it's a safe New Year for you and have what about this isn't part of the conversation but have you had any rain out there
[speaker002:] oh we've had a lot of it out here
[speaker001:] okay that's what I understand California needs but
[speaker002:] yeah it it we do need it and there's been an awful lot of it
[speaker001:] well I mean when you live in Texas you accept it when it comes
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and don't complain about it
[speaker002:] I guess you guys had a pretty good storm a while back though
[speaker001:] oh I still have an apartment that has furniture up on bricks because of the rain um-hum and I live in a a nice part of Dallas but um
[speaker002:] oh really
[speaker001:] anyway if the if the criminals and do not come around here I'm going to be extremely fortunate um-hum
[speaker002:] yeah my my husband and I are thinking about moving because we've got two little boys and it's just getting so bad around here that I'm afraid to even let them go out and play I mean it's it's really bad with the gangs and everything
[speaker001:] you mean this is not occur after after sundown its during the day too
[speaker002:] the majority of it is at night but like the shootings and stuff on the freeways are done in broad daylight nobody will say anything because everybody's afraid
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