[speaker001:] well got any problems on Mockingbird with crime or is that a crime free zone there
[speaker002:] no I don't think there is any such thing as a crime free zone any longer uh
[speaker001:] I'm afraid you're right
[speaker002:] uh one evening I decided to retire early and heard sirens and noises and thought oh well something's happens on Mockingbird and then heard yells and screams and the next thing I know there are policemen all around my house
[speaker001:] oh my
[speaker002:] and they had stopped a uh a stolen car
[speaker001:] oh boy
[speaker002:] and caught one of the men in the hedge and then the other one was on the roof in the back
[speaker001:] by your house
[speaker002:] by on my house
[speaker001:] oh my goodness ah aye aye
[speaker002:] so I'm very much aware of uh crime in the cities and the and the concern about it
[speaker001:] oh my that's that's got to be a frightening way to spend spend an evening
[speaker002:] it was I uh I kept hearing noises and so I I knew that I was not going to sleep until I got up and went out and checked the garage so I got a gun my gun and walked to the you know through the house into the garage there was no one there but I wanted to be sure
[speaker001:] oh boy
[speaker002:] is Plano beginning to experience the the kinds of things that are more common in the metropolitan you know in the urban area
[speaker001:] unfortunately yes yes
[speaker002:] that's too bad
[speaker001:] I think uh you know as any city grows up uh you get the hoods and the ruf riffraff and everybody else in there and I think u
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] you know fortunately the sirens and everything we hear are over on Spring Creek but uh we've been we've lived here sixteen years and
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] now you you know you can tell the change for sure
[speaker002:] well I was thinking if you've been there that long you've seen Plano grow from what was really a a small town to a city
[speaker001:] yes well with all the uh Central Expressway uh with all the stores and the uh restaurants and the
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh convenience stores and all that kind of stuff it's just prime pickings for people driving by you know and
[speaker002:] yeah well I was appalled to read the other day about the uh uh shooting on the tollway
[speaker001:] that's that couldn't be too far from you neither uh
[speaker002:] uh well it's further west of me
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] I live over near White Rock Lake
[speaker001:] oh yes okay
[speaker002:] but uh uh it was really frightening to think that uh it's not even safe to drive onto the tollway or for those people in the tollbooth uh I never thought about someone robbing those but apparently they do
[speaker001:] I don't know uh how a few bucks can be worth shooting somebody but
[speaker002:] yeah it just doesn't seem possible does it
[speaker001:] it's kind of kind of stupid isn't it
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but I guess when people do those things they don't really give a thought of the consequences at the time it's looks like easy pickings and away you go right
[speaker002:] no yeah and I think the drugs play a tremendous part in um the theft and the the violence that we see
[speaker001:] I think you're right uh although I think that may be an excuse for people too
[speaker002:] it it is convenient isn't it I didn't know what I was doing
[speaker001:] right right right just like the old alcohol idea and
[speaker002:] that kind of um-hum
[speaker001:] I think people uh I think when you have haves and have nots you're always going to find people that are too lazy to figure a way to earn money and find it's easier if you can get a gun to go out and hold something up than it is to figure out a way to legitimately earn the money
[speaker002:] um-hum well yes and I work in South Dallas for the Dallas School System and uh uh uh do you know where Oakland and Hatcher are
[speaker001:] oh boy where do you work uh yes I think I do that uh is that Amelia Earhout Earhart School there
[speaker002:] uh no this is over near Lincoln High School
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] uh just not far off South Central Expressway
[speaker001:] that's a pretty rough area there isn't it
[speaker002:] it is a pretty rough area we're over by Fair Park
[speaker001:] um my goodness
[speaker002:] and uh you know you watch the people there are marvelous BMW's and Mercedes and Cadillacs and everything parked all up and down the street outside these awful taverns
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] and the kids see that and uh they know that they can earn several hundred dollars in a day where uh you know running for uh drug dealers if
[speaker001:] definitely that area that that's big time big time there sure is
[speaker002:] um-hum it surely is
[speaker001:] I don't think I'd go to work without a bulletproof vest on myself in that area
[speaker002:] well I'm careful
[speaker001:] gee that's the worst neighborhood in the whole city area
[speaker002:] yeah it's uh a little scary sometimes and uh I manage the