Story of the week 3/22/99

The story of the week this week is you. What’s the story? Do we keep doing this week after week, or do we put it back to once a month. We will always be here to provide valuable information in the interest of providing you with personal safety information, but the frequency depends on you.

The hits to the site keep going up on a regular basis but we rarely hear from anyone regarding questions you may have, or comments about the page.

If you stumbled across us, and if you like reading the information in the tips and stories of the week, I’m going to ask you to do one thing.

Email and tell us to keep doing what we’re doing, or tell us to go fishing….

We want to hear from you.

Thanks for your interest.

Jim Lambert
Netcops PSI

By the way. For those who may have thought that this weeks tip of the week was a bit harsh or on the grim side our only interest is in making sure that you take the steps that YOU can take, to help you enjoy watching the sun come up everyday!

Stay Safe always! From the staff at Netcops PSI

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I’m a harsh critic of movies. I have so little free time these days that I am overly selective of the movies I watch. I really don’t like my time being wasted on anything less than quality films. One way I know that I was really into a movie is when I remember one liners that stay with me a long time…

Shawshank Redemption. What a great flick. Tim Robbins told Morgan Freeman in the prison yard, “You have to get busy living or get busy dying”.

When I drive down the street on patrol I see countless people who are busy living. They are so busy living that they forget that the vehicle they are driving can easily “get them busy dying”. We see it on a daily basis.

We see kids who use a vehicle to demonstrate how tough they are. The squealing tires, the booming stereo, the unsafe maneuvers, and careless recklessness. Often you find a skinny scrawny 16 year-old kid with zits all over his face or a head shaved with odd designs, trying to act 10 years older than he is, looking at everyone around him to see how many people are looking at him. Looking everywhere except at the road in front of him. Next time you see a kid driving like an idiot, watch for a minute. You’ll see nothing except the glee in his face as he looks at you when he passes by. He wants to make sure you are watching how cool he is.

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This week’s story of the week covers an incident involving numerous aspects of personal safety of your home and your property. The 3 real victims in this case learned the hard way when their homes were burglarized in broad daylight. We hope that you don’t have to do the same. Read, Learn, and Change!

This is what caught the kid’s attention in the first place, an open rear screen door leading to a rear open garage door. Even if it had been locked and the kid had smashed out the door glass, an ALARM system would have scared him off and prevented serious damage and property loss.

It took the kid 45 minutes to break this door down using tools found in the garage. It would take a sophisticated adult crook much less time. An ALARM system would have scared off both!

Deadbolts are a necessity for a secure home but as you can see, even they can be beaten with enough time, especially when the crook isn’t seen or heard. No idiot in the world is going to keep pounding and chiseling away on this door with an ALARM system blaring it’s horn or siren outside. Do I really have to say it again? GET AN ALARM SYSTEM!

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Home Security

“It’s 2pm, do you know where your house is?”

Last week I responded to a call for a residential burglary where a number of factors involved, support the very reason why we wrote Coptalk in the first place. In fact if the victims in this case had read CopTalk beforehand, they would have saved themselves from a lot of grief. The target was jewelry, expensive jewelry that meant a lot to the owners. Jewelry that had been given as gifts or had been handed down as heirlooms that can no longer be replaced.

The worst thing that these people had to face was the horrible feeling of violation that comes when a total stranger breaks into your home, and TAKES whatever he wants from
YOUR belongings. The bottom line is that these thefts never had to happen if the “opportunity” had not been presented to the crook. These mistakes are made on a daily basis and what that means, is that it’s just a matter of time before it happens to YOU. You can keep that from happening if you want to!

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