StephSF

Break-Ins?

Since my move to the Bay Area, not only have I experienced a home break-in myself, but I've heard of four other recent situations in a varying degree of neighborhoods where people have had either their home or their car broken into. Is this a common phenomenon here? Is it a symptom of a high population density in an affluent area condensed with a number of poor neighborhoods? Or perhaps a sign of the economy?

Either way, it seems strange, considering I've never heard of such a high number of breakins before moving here...

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FlowerGirl Jul 10, 2010

I have never heard of anyone having a break-in in Lafayette--not to a house anyway. When I was in college in Berkeley though I had my car broken into twice and I had friends who literally had to scare off a guy who tried to break into their house. (He was probably on drugs.) On the bright side, the second time someone broke into my car they left me these stylish glasses inside of an envelope. I still have them and wear them when I'm feeling like a hoodlum.

NightOwlnOrinda Jul 10, 2010

Cal was definitely one of the only places I had break-ins too. But I got you beat Flowergirl, 3 times and they took my radio twice. They must have liked you though, they didn't leave me any apparel only the fould stench of bathlessness.

NightOwlnOrinda Jul 10, 2010

We don't get too much break-ins here in Orinda. Crime is pretty low--mostly petty theft around here. We have had one murder case (a woman killed her husband) in the ten years that I have lived here. It is probably the safest place I have ever lived as a matter of fact.

StephSF Jul 15, 2010

Hmm...Orinda may be the place to go! It seems like a common phenomenon, particularly in the Peninsula - and urban/suburban classifications have almost as little to do with it as the economic area. I've heard of recent cases, just from friends, in East Palo Alto, Menlo Park (the nice part), Half Moon Bay and Western San Francisco alike. It is an unfortunate but existing phenomenon here...

NightOwlnOrinda Jul 17, 2010

I imagine though that every big city will have its share of crime. It would have to be a pretty small town where you wouldn't get that sort of thing. Certainly no where I have lived.

NightOwlnOrinda Jul 17, 2010

Actually one of the safest places I have ever lived is Phoenix Arizona. That is despite authorities curruntly calling it the kidnapping capitol of the world because illegal immigration. (The whole thing is so ridiculous--what a sellout McCain has become.)

StephSF Jul 21, 2010

Yeah, Arizona is a little ridiculous these days...isn't downtown Phoenix pretty sketchy these days? I went there once during daytime and it was just fine...but I could see the tendency toward it not being a good neighborhood or place to go at night. I've heard this about the neighborhood from other folks, too.