http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/luvmy2girls/5766 When I moved to East Golden Hills many years ago it seemed like a nice, safe neighborhood to live and raise children. It was definitely a huge improvement from the large town I moved from. Lately though I have noticed that my neighborhood is getting worse and worse. In the past week or so a brand new house that hasn't even been occupied yet had the large garage door tagged all the way across (this still hasn't been cleaned up since the owners of the property live out of town), just a few houses down in the other direction someone tagged in huge white spray paint all of the entire body of someone's truck plus their trailer (both were parked in their driveway). When driving through the neighborhood there are places where the street is almost covered in landscaping rocks that kids have thrown into the street. Just this past weekend we witnessed two young teenage boys walking down our street with a bike, they then started checking out a vehicle in a driveway across the street, next thing they put the bike in the bed of the vehicle and took off. It makes me sad to see this once nice neighborhood now filled with teenagers &amp; young adults who have no respect for adults (not even their own parents), the vandalism and theft that has been occurring, and no one seems to care. When I moved to East Golden Hills many years ago it seemed like a nice, safe neighborhood to live and raise children. It was definitely a huge improvement from the large town I moved from. Lately though I have noticed that my neighborhood is getting worse and worse. In the past week or so a brand new house that hasn't even been occupied yet had the large garage door tagged all the way across (this still hasn't been cleaned up since the owners of the property live out of town), just a few houses down in the other direction someone tagged in huge white spray paint all of the entire body of someone's truck plus their trailer (both were parked in their driveway). When driving through the neighborhood there are places where the street is almost covered in landscaping rocks that kids have thrown into the street. Just this past weekend we witnessed two young teenage boys walking down our street with a bike, they then started checking out a vehicle in a driveway across the street, next thing they put the bike in the bed of the vehicle and took off. It makes me sad to see this once nice neighborhood now filled with teenagers &amp; young adults who have no respect for adults (not even their own parents), the vandalism and theft that has been occurring, and no one seems to care. en-us <p><strong><em>Please read my post</em> &quot;Steps To Prevent Home Burglary&quot; As a retired Criminologist I was astonished to see &nbsp;that I only got ONE response. Doesn't anyone else care? Do you want to wait till it's too late? I'm only trying to be part of the SOLUTION! So must all of you!</strong></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong>Jim Richards</strong></p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/luvmy2girls/5766/#c_58079 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/luvmy2girls/5766/#c_58079 <p><strong><em>Please read my post</em> &quot;Steps To Prevent Home Burglary&quot; As a retired Criminologist I was astonished to see &nbsp;that I only got ONE response. Doesn't anyone else care? Do you want to wait till it's too late? I'm only trying to be part of the SOLUTION! So must all of you!</strong></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong>Jim Richards</strong></p> <p>A few weeks ago, my elderly neighbor, who has lived in the same house for nearly fifty years, came over and said that someone had walked into her (open) garage and attempted to steal a TV. In her front yard was the evidence: the TV had been dropped in the yard as the theives fled when she opened her front door. She was having trouble with her phone, and asked to come in to use my phone. While we were in my house on the phone to the sheriff, <strong><em>the thieves actually had the cajones to come back for the TV!</em> </strong>When my neighbor and I went back outside, it was gone.</p> <p>This was in <strong>broad bright daylight</strong>, people! Close your garage doors and lock your doors and windows. We are not in Tehachapi anymore. This is New LA.</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/luvmy2girls/5766/#c_58506 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/luvmy2girls/5766/#c_58506 <p>A few weeks ago, my elderly neighbor, who has lived in the same house for nearly fifty years, came over and said that someone had walked into her (open) garage and attempted to steal a TV. In her front yard was the evidence: the TV had been dropped in the yard as the theives fled when she opened her front door. She was having trouble with her phone, and asked to come in to use my phone. While we were in my house on the phone to the sheriff, <strong><em>the thieves actually had the cajones to come back for the TV!</em> </strong>When my neighbor and I went back outside, it was gone.</p> <p>This was in <strong>broad bright daylight</strong>, people! Close your garage doors and lock your doors and windows. We are not in Tehachapi anymore. This is New LA.</p>