Originally Posted by John_W (Post 704875)

Community Watch can't be everywhere, but cameras can be. Many crimes have been solved with parking lot cameras, I don't see why they haven't already been installed here./

Originally Posted by BobnBev (Post 705023)

Maybe it's time to think about a Villages Police Department. The Sheriff can only do so much, with limited resources.

Originally Posted by janmcn (Post 704882)

Did the police check near-by cars for similar damage? If so, any found?

There was a letter to the editor in The Tampa Bay Times a few months ago from a woman who had her car keyed in The Villages, and she attributed it to having the wrong sticker on her car. She also had her golf cart smeared with dog poop for the same reason.

Originally Posted by pooh (Post 705042)

Cameras don't always "catch" the bad guys. This past Christmas, our children drove to TV from Chicago. They stopped at a Cracker Barrel in Marietta, GA for a bite to eat....in the early afternoon. In a short while, their car was broken in to, presents, suitcases, electronics were stolen. Crooks were clever, they knew how to do their dirty work without the surveillance cameras seeing them or plates on their vehicle.

Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 705082)

I like Skip a lot and enjoy his posts. He has never said anything that I disagreed with. He is a responsible person and an excellent source of information.

But I am dying to know how he knows what the developer says about cameras. He must KNOW the developer.

I can't imagine anyone putting poop on a car either unless the stickers said something just awful about old people in general and then.................maybe I could understand it a little tiny bit..Or the person driving that golf car was ugly and nasty and mean in a very public way. I can't imagine that they would do it just because someone was voting for the party that the poop spreader didn't like.

And why would they write to the Tampa paper about it???

Originally Posted by Bonny (Post 704984)

I have to say, I know a few Villagers that are very capable of doing something like that.

Originally Posted by indydealmaker (Post 705028)

police do not prevent crimes. Ask any cop on the street. Police are no longer allowed to police in such a way as to pull bad dudes off of the street before they can do the crime. Police investigate crimes that have been already committed and they attempt to catch the bad guys. Theoretically, the resulting punishments of the criminals is a deterrent to others.

However, the threat of being caught and punished is no longer a deterrent because our increasingly liberal society feels more responsibility for the poor perps than the victims.

Increased police patrols are not a serious deterrent either because no matter how many cops are on the street, there are always going to be more bad guys who appear quite skilled at being where the cops are not.

The only answer is for people to be more aware and not have their collective heads up their rear ends thinking that there is any really safe place. There are only "relatively" safe places, like the villages.

It also might help if parents started parenting, but that is another topic.

Originally Posted by Halibut (Post 705177)

My wife has a big happy face peace sticker on her cart and twice has had a bag of dog (I assume) poop left on the seat while she was out shopping. Sigh.

I think some of the adults here are far more onery and spiteful than any teens I've personally run into.

Edited to add: Not that The Villages has more than its share of those people, but there are some everywhere, including here.

Originally Posted by Halibut (Post 705177)

My wife has a big happy face peace sticker on her cart and twice has had a bag of dog (I assume) poop left on the seat while she was out shopping. Sigh.

I think some of the adults here are far more onery and spiteful than any teens I've personally run into.

Edited to add: Not that The Villages has more than its share of those people, but there are some everywhere, including here.

Originally Posted by Halibut (Post 705177)

My wife has a big happy face peace sticker on her cart and twice has had a bag of dog (I assume) poop left on the seat while she was out shopping. Sigh.

I think some of the adults here are far more onery and spiteful than any teens I've personally run into.

Edited to add: Not that The Villages has more than its share of those people, but there are some everywhere, including here.