[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] so
[speaker001:] well do you live in a high crime area
[speaker002:] oh it's uh yes and it's the crime mostly in this area is uh burglary house break-ins in fact our car our son's uh car was broken into about
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] two weekends ago three weekends ago they stole a stereo I mean it was parked out in front of our house it happened overnight but there's a uh
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] we we had a break at our place our house about three years ago bought an alarm system about within five days after that
[speaker001:] do you think that that will do it
[speaker002:] oh I don't think anything is going to be uh foolproof I think it's it's a deterrent I think if they have a choice between our place and one house that's not protected they'll go to the other place
[speaker001:] they'll go to the yeah
[speaker002:] but uh it's uh we live in uh well I live in Richardson actually you say Arlington do you mean Arlington Texas
[speaker001:] huh okay yeah Arlington Texas
[speaker002:] yeah yeah and uh the crime out here is mostly of the break in type and vandalism and sort of stuff like that I don't think there
[speaker001:] uh-huh you don't have much street crime
[speaker002:] no no as far as uh muggings and murders and stuff like that no that's pretty isolated pretty rare I think would knock on wood
[speaker001:] right um that's what I would think in that area yeah so what do you think you can do to uh
[speaker002:] yeah but oh you know I think a lot of the crime is committed committed by people that are trying to uh finance their next fix and uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] it's you know that goes back to a drug problem and uh nobody's been able to solve that yet I think it's uh
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] drug related and then a lot of it starts in the homes and uh the the uh breakup of breakup of the family unit's caused a lot of the problems I mean the dad is gone for one reason or another the mother's raising the kids
[speaker001:] right family unit you mean uh-huh
[speaker002:] they just get there's no discipline at the at the home so it just goes from bad to worse it just starts there and leads leads from that into the drug situation and then as I said they're trying to finance their next uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh fix
[speaker002:] next fix so they're desperate uh
[speaker001:] yeah yeah and that's what the uh seems like the uh genre of the crime these days is a lot of desperate people whereas I think probably fifty years ago the crime wasn't quite so intense that way
[speaker002:] um-hum right yeah probably wasn't as personal as it is today I mean break with the uh muggings and the break-ins of the houses and so forth then there there just wasn't as much of it I I imagine as as there is now
[speaker001:] yeah with the uh-huh well I mean I think the reasons were different back then more than they are now like you're saying the drugs can make people really desperate so that makes them also very dangerous
[speaker002:] yeah yeah yeah well I think the courts are to blame I I I just think they're they're overly lenient on these people and I was watching Larry King Live there and they were they were talking about rape and castration and so forth and
[speaker001:] uh uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] there's always so much concern about the uh the rapist and the the burglar and so forth and no concern at all about the victim
[speaker001:] yeah yeah that's really disgusting
[speaker002:] yeah so uh it I think the whole thing just needs a complete overhaul but it starts in the family but it's everybody's to blame I think at least a lot of probably a lot of apathy on the part of people that haven't been uh victimized
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh right uh-huh oh yeah because they have no idea what it's like
[speaker002:] right so uh it it it's just a big problem and uh
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] there's so many other problems to go around and economy's a problem and I guess at one time Russia was a problem and uh every there there's always one problem or another seems to be uh ahead of the crime problem but uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh right
[speaker002:] that's probably that has to be one of the top two or three
[speaker001:] well I think for the US I think basically from what I've read that the US has one of the highest crime rates in the world so I think that's a priority
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah you know I think we think we're real sophisticated we're really not when you come right down to it there used to be a lot of stuff on the highways and the roads when you're driving around dropped by people that are
[speaker001:] we're not  huh
[speaker002:] that you makes makes you wonder whether they're not just jerks or not I mean they just do crazy thing they they're not breaking the law but they just do some crazy things and
[speaker001:] right yeah
[speaker002:] oh I don't know it's it's kind of disgusting but they we're really not all that sophisticated over here
[speaker001:] no if you come down to it if you look at uh the statistics on child abuse
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh violence against women and uh the drug wars and uh also um
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] let's see I think with like with rape it's one out of three women and one out of ten men or boys rape the the amount of rape and uh
[speaker002:] what's that yeah um-hum
[speaker001:] uh like with the drugs I think that one solution that I know I hate to say it but is legalization
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] because that's where all the drug the gangs get their power over the drugs because it's illegal
[speaker002:] uh-huh right
[speaker001:] and uh I there's a lot of complications that go along with saying that but I just nothing else seems to be working
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I was going to say it's worth a