[speaker001:] uh well I'm not sure how it is in Georgia but in in Pittsburgh the rate the crime rate really is not very high at the moment is that is that true for for Atlanta
[speaker002:] Atlanta is kind of high uh it's it's lower than it has been in the past uh I guess nineteen ninety is when it start to drop off and usually around the Christmas season is usually when the crime rate is a little bit higher
[speaker001:] yeah I that's that's probably not true only for Atlanta but for just about anywhere
[speaker002:] yeah uh what kind of crime problem do you usually run into any pacifits
[speaker001:] well uh from least what from what's on the news uh there are very few like actual robberies reported uh uh of of residences what's more likely to occur is uh robbery of uh you know knocking over a a small store or a car theft you know it things of that nature very few uh you you assaults although on the college campuses uh there are uh cases of you know like people getting machine from a from an automated teller and you know somebody trying to to device a scam for for uh getting the money for them that actually preys mostly on foreigners
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] but mostly petty things and nothing nothing nothing nothing really too big
[speaker002:] right well I guess here we run into that sometime but I guess a lot of crimes are done with uh apartment type break-ins you know
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] that type not much home break-ins there are some but not not very high uh as far as tellers and things like that it's not extremely high either there there were one case where uh this one guy uh was taking women from the teller and and you know making them give him money and stuff and then at the same time raping them also so it's kind of like a double assault there
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah uh a strange case that uh that happened lets about about a year ago was someone actually stole a complete automated teller machine
[speaker002:] really
[speaker001:] it was a freestanding machine and they backed up into it with a truck and put it on the back and drove away with it
[speaker002:] um-hum oh wow
[speaker001:] now there's a crime for you
[speaker002:] there is a crime
[speaker001:] yeah but uh I guess most of the things that happen around here are are pretty uh innocuous although uh from what I hear in the news and and I I saw saw an episode of the TV show Cops
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh one time that was in Pittsburgh and uh it it it did surprise me because you know they were doing drug arrests and thing and things like that but I I don't really think those things happen happen too often because like like I said from what's reported in the news at least it's it's not all that common
[speaker002:] oh okay hm I don't know crime situations here they like I say a lot of a lot of cases is usually just apartments and and break-ins and things like that and a lot of it is due to drugs
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] or drug related you know in in most cases it's not like uh if someone do steal a a television or VCR or something like that it is for drugs you know because you really can't on the street make any money off of it per se you know you gonna only get ten or fifteen bucks for it
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so you really not making a sizeable profit so it's not really lucrative to take chances like that you know even though it it does exist
[speaker001:] you know I I just to diverge a little bit uh I live in an apartment right now I'm finishing out my last semester at the University of Pittsburgh and uh the apartment like would be very easy for just about anyone to break in but even so it I mean it's it's still difficult for me to convince my apartment mates to to like lock the doors when they go out you know and things like that
[speaker002:] right yeah um-hum
[speaker001:] uh it it would be so easy for someone who is motivated to do so to just you know sit out back take a look at when people are here when they're not just come in
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] you know there's a TV and a VCR and they could uh they could get in pretty easy and especially uh since there are bedrooms upstairs and people leave the door open you know while they're upstairs playing music it it could still happen then
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah that's true but you be surprised also how much people watch you that even uh uh participating in any type crime I guess there was one case I was surprised uh so happen this person worked at the same place I work for Georgia Tech and they work at the same place I did but I didn't know that they had been watching me because I was getting ready to go in my car one morning and the first thing they said is uh you must don't have to be to work at eight you know like shock