>last week the following happened in your neighborhood:
>
>*drug dealer shoots rival
>
>*lady breaks into her neighbor's house & steals her tv
>
>*guy sells drugs to the lady at discounted price cuz she gave
>him a semi-used tv
>
>*guy crashes stolen car into a bus stop and kills a mother &
>her child before fleeing the scene
>
>*woman with multiple felony warrants is hiding out in a vacant
>house several people are squatting in
>
>you know what happened in all of the scenarios. not no
>guessin, you KNOW.
>
>but the police don't know. or maybe they suspect it but they
>don't have enough of the pieces to do what they need to do.
>
>do you help the police in any or all of those situations?

I don't care about people stealing property, even my own. It's a crime of poverty, and that's why I have insurance. Locking those people up isn't going to help. Calling the cops on drug dealers is just stupid, because cops are usually complicit in drug dealing in the hood. The guy who killed the mother and the baby? Taking it to the community policing collective for a vote.