Shootings and gun fights
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| - | ==Shots fired and gun fights==The first time there was a '''shooting''' in my neighborhood was in the early '80s. A robbery gone bad, hostages taken and then several killed. | + | ==Shots fired and gun fights== |
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| + | The first time there was a '''shooting''' in my neighborhood was in the early '80s. A robbery gone bad, hostages taken and then several killed. | ||
| In August 2005 there were shots fired just down the block from my house. | In August 2005 there were shots fired just down the block from my house. | ||
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Shootings and Gun Fights are just part of the general crime statistics.
Shots fired and gun fights
The first time there was a shooting in my neighborhood was in the early '80s. A robbery gone bad, hostages taken and then several killed.
In August 2005 there were shots fired just down the block from my house.
I was in Lancaster in late September 2005 and there were shots fired from one gun, then, a short time later, a gun battle with two weapons and 10-12 shots.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006 there were shots fired in my neighborhood, several blocks away, at 6:00am. Four shots, spaced out a bit. Ten minutes later there were shots exchanged, two weapons. Nothing in the news, never any police sirens.
Crime statistics are reportedly going down. But crime, like these shootings seems to be closer to me now. Drivers are more aggressive on the freeway. People are fighting for this or fighting for that.
Homicides Down In San Diego
01-13-2006 4:22 PM (San Diego, CA) -- San Diego Police say homicides in the city were down for the third year in a row. According to a report published in the "San Diego Union Tribune," there were 51 homicides last year, eleven less than in 2004, and a long way from the record 167 at the height of the crack-cocaine epidemic in 1991. San Diego police also reported nearly 50 percent fewer gang homicides in 2005, dropping to 12 from 22. Officials credit the decrease in part, to officer interaction with the community. The paper says, preliminary figures through November 2005 showed violent crime overall down two percent. That includes murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. It dropped to 6-thousand-25 cases from 6-thousand-168. Copyright 2006 Metro Networks Communications Inc., A Westwood One Company
muggings
From an e-mail February 10, 2006: The apartment complex that Trevor lives in backs up to a shopping center and there is a cut through that people walk through to get back an forth. Trevor was walking through there one evening; I think it was around 7 or 8 when a couple of guys jumped him. Trevor got up and started running, some people in the shopping center saw what was going on so they came over and the 2 guys jumped in their car and took off. Fortunately they didn't take anything from Trevor, but I guess he had a few minor cuts and bruises plus I am sure he was pretty shook up from the ordeal. They didn't get a license plate number and the guys were wearing masks so he wasn't able to get a very good description. I am not sure why the police don't believe him as he would have absolutely nothing to gain by making it up especially since he admitted that they didn't get anything from him. Hopefully it was a one time isolated incident, I think it was just a matter of him being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
