[speaker001:] we're supposed to talk about crime in the city
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh seems like all big cities have plenty of that nowadays doesn't it
[speaker002:] well uh I uh that's sure um I think I think it's statistics statistics obviously vary greatly I always thought of Dallas as being a fairly safe place
[speaker001:] well it is but our crimes up here uh is I think it must be in most cities now but I was listening to the news the other day and they said they thought a lot of it the reason it was up so was because of the uh so many people are without work nowadays economy's so bad
[speaker002:] do you really believe that I mean it it's been up every year for many years and the economy hasn't been this bad for so long has it
[speaker001:] well that's a good point that's just what they quoted over the news
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh I don't know if I'll believe that or not but it it does seem up and uh
[speaker002:] what kind of newspaper do you get down there
[speaker001:] what kind
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] well we got a I think we got a pretty good newspaper uh we have two the Morning News and the uh Times Herald
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] Morning News seems to have the largest circulation I think it's a pretty good it's a locally owned paper the Herald is owned I think by the Times out of uh LA or somewhere
[speaker002:] um-hum yes do do they do they play up the local crime angles or do or do they
[speaker001:] but well they don't no not really uh they don't play it up I don't think uh but there there is too much of it you know uh too many homes broken into we had our our fact about uh last year sometime our home was broken into
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah really so this is a topic of personal interest
[speaker001:] we yeah we uh uh I didn't think ours ever would be burgled into burgled but so many in our neighborhood had been and uh because we live on a corner and back up to a real uh highly traveled main
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] street but uh we were so uh
[speaker002:] yeah so so you saw this happening in your neighborhood and you figured it wouldn't happen to you
[speaker001:] sort of yeah and I never did get a security system but since that happened I certainly have
[speaker002:] yeah what kind of system do you have
[speaker001:] it's uh uh I guess excuse me just a standard uh with the uh all the doors and uh uh infrared thing you know motion detector pretty pretty standard
[speaker002:] um-hum is is this is this one with some company that that services you and takes your calls and all that stuff
[speaker001:] yes yes it's monitored and all that uh
[speaker002:] yeah well is is that a necessary feature to have somebody you know at the other end of the line or is it enough just to have a thing that makes loud noise
[speaker001:] and I think uh the thing that makes a lot of noise would would suffice I really do
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but uh this deal that was part of it for you know three years or so you pay the unit off or whatever
[speaker002:] yes um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh but it uh the monitoring's not that bad though because uh uh we've goofed it up you know several times you'll hit the wrong key not intentionally or something and and they call back pretty quickly so I I guess it's you know I think it's all right but I to answer your question I think uh uh I think uh that is a pretty good deterrent in itself whether it
[speaker002:] um hum yeah so so so you got a sign up there that says you got this alarm system and what if a burglar comes along and cuts your phone line
[speaker001:] um-hum well it's got a back up system that doesn't work supposedly that uh if it's cut supposedly it notifies them anyway supposedly who knows you know
[speaker002:] how does it do that
[speaker001:] but that's the selling point and I think they're probably I think it probably does these things are supposedly supposedly pretty good
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] boy they sure advertise them you know so many of them nowadays
[speaker002:] oh sure
[speaker001:] but uh well don't y'all don't y'all have a pretty high crime rate up there
[speaker002:] well yeah um
[speaker001:] I'm not saying it's any higher than anybody else's down here we seem to or or not here but the statistics seem to say that I don't know
[speaker002:] I I think it's the murder capital of the country now
[speaker001:] is that right
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] I would gather probably from drugs
[speaker002:] absolutely
[speaker001:] and I think that's the reason it's so high everywhere
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but I don't think there's anyplace used to years ago you thought well these little small cities and all wouldn't have that problem but they do
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] we've had relatives that their children were just as involved in it uh as anyone you know
[speaker002:] so so so what's the solution
[speaker001:] that's a good question I don't know I don't know what the solution is I really don't
[speaker002:] and all these politicians make make hay over you know being anticrime but
[speaker001:] yeah yep
[speaker002:] they haven't seemed to have changed anything
[speaker001:] the and nothing seems to change and uh I'm not sure that anything will because these if something could happen to make these people not wanna buy it
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh but they wanna buy it so supplying and demand long as somebody wants to buy it somebody's gonna provide it for them
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so I don't know I don't you know I don't know what the solution is I really don't
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I don't think anyone does in fact
[speaker002:] and what