It troubles me that home invasion-type robberies / assaults seem to be on the increase in Western MoCo. What's next? Stopping cars on the road and pulling the driver and / or passengers out? I guess that the MoCo police have their hands full with major offenses like stopping speeders and issuing parking tickets, and that home invasion crime has simply got to take a back seat to other, more pressing police concerns - like kids damaging mailboxes.
Yes, it seems it's more important to extract public contrition from people who simply speak the truth than it is to actually control crime on the streets. Hey, the MoCo Chief of Police absolves himself by saying the County's "increase in some categories of violent crimes....reflects the national trend...." I guess we're supposed to just say "Oh, well, since it's happening in other parts of the country, I guess it's entirely understandable that crime's getting worse here too!"
Yes, the longer I live here in Western MoCo, the more I realize that we are witnessing an ever-increasing coarsening of people's attitudes, and a sad resignation to the fact that crimes like these seem to have become just part of the fabric of our lives; a fabric for which we pay enormous property taxes to fund a police department that's sadly unable to protect us from these sorts of crimes.
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