[speaker001:] so I've been concerned about crime lately um it's really scary to listen to the news every night and to hear about all the problems I wondered if you were taking any special precautions in your neighborhood
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum well I I think we have a neighborhood watch I think I'm not real we don't get real involved we're never home so um
[speaker001:] uh-huh  uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh well I know they were gonna start one but uh I haven't heard any more since so I don't really know but as far as personally doing something no
[speaker001:] no hm
[speaker002:] how about you
[speaker001:] well we moved in when we moved in there there wasn't any outside lights and so we've been trying to install some
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] um outside lights and we put up a fence in the backyard mostly you know not so much thinking that we would deter someone to break in but that our children would be safe playing in the yard you know
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah yeah huh
[speaker001:] and I guess most of the crime that I'm concerned about generally is against my my kids it's scary to send them off down the street a few houses
[speaker002:] oh I'm sure it is
[speaker001:] to let them go play with someone and because of what you hear about people getting picked up and everything and
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] so I have to spend a good deal of time watching them walk down the street and say call me before you leave and come back and
[speaker002:] uh I would too if I had kids we don't have any we did install a um a uh motion detector light back in our driveway
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and that was mainly it was so when we pulled up the light would come on but also we have a boat back there and we have neighborhood kids that like to get into mischief so we thought with that light you know it would
[speaker001:] um-hum oh no
[speaker002:] maybe keep them from doing something to the boat yeah so
[speaker001:] then that's a good thought well we've been real lucky that I don't believe there's been you know much trouble in our neighborhood but it but it does seem there that there is a lot more here in Plano of um just
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] bored teenagers vandalism
[speaker002:] yeah yeah that's what it is we live in Coppell and and that's pretty much what it is is you know
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] kids that are bored like you say
[speaker001:] but yeah and they don't uh I know my sister-in-law who lives in our neighborhood they've had their they've parked their car out on the street before and it's been spray painted and
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh no
[speaker001:] a few things like that and course you know I don't know I'm getting scared for the kids to get older because you don't know if it's someone their teenagers know who and or is it just random
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] crime but um we've been real lucky that no one in my family with the anywhere that they live has had been a victim of you know a serious crime
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] but uh it's really scary to know that you you can live a normal life and try to be a good citizen but it doesn't mean you'll be safe and
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh I know it hm
[speaker001:] but I guess I take a lot of um little bit of um  safety in knowing that a lot of the crimes that they report are like drug related or um things that places usually that I wouldn't be going and things I usually wouldn't be involved in
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum um-hum yeah yeah huh
[speaker001:] and uh there's not so much of it completely innocent victims compared to but it is scary
[speaker002:] yeah yeah it is it really is
[speaker001:] were you raised in this area
[speaker002:] yeah I'm originally from Chicago but I've been in this area in the Louisville area for uh let's see about twenty three years
[speaker001:] hm um-hum so has it been getting worse that you've noticed or about the same hm
[speaker002:] oh definitely in the last few years I think and uh like I say now I don't think necessarily in this area here but
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] just Dallas in general I don't know I think back of when I was uh younger and in my party days some of those things I did you know I wouldn't be caught dead like being out that late at night in a dark parking lot so
[speaker001:] right right take a lot of chances well I noticed that um that uh when we we moved here from Houston not too long ago and so of course we were interested in schools and um
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh um-hum
[speaker001:] but the schools in Houston all have big tall fences around them and they're not really very safe
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and so it's been interesting to come to the Plano area where the schools don't have fences at all around them and it's just a whole different idea that that at least the people here feel that their kids are pretty safe at school
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and in Houston that there was the mentality that they weren't safe at school
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] and so that's been something that's been good for the you know in this area that you feel like um you know there's not going to be too many knifings or shootings at school today and I guess I don't know how people live with that everyday
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum um I don't either
[speaker001:] pretty scary
[speaker002:] yeah hm
[speaker001:] but anyway well I guess I won't take up more of your time
[speaker002:] hm