I live in central Ft. Lauderdale. I see/ hear a lot of police activity. Know the sound of a P71 without looking. But right now, we have 5 police cars, at least two police dogs , patrolling/ walking around out front of my house. Dogs are barking a lot. No idea what is going on, do not feel like it's a good idea to go out and ask Officer Friendly what is going on. My Bulgarian friend, Mr. Makarov, is close at hand. Anybody else have this in their neighborhood?
I live in a dorm with 2400 students. I hear sirens a lot.
Hell no, our town cop goes home at 11pm after his 4 hour shift.
have not heard the ghetto bird for a few days.
I did for a little while. Spent some time in the early 90's in Bushwick. We left when we woke up with bullet holes about a foot above my friend's kid's bed. she was asleep there at the time.
cwh wrote: I live in central Ft. Lauderdale. I see/ hear a lot of police activity. Know the sound of a P71 without looking. But right now, we have 5 police cars, at least two police dogs , patrolling/ walking around out front of my house. Dogs are barking a lot. No idea what is going on, do not feel like it's a good idea to go out and ask Officer Friendly what is going on. My Bulgarian friend, Mr. Makarov, is close at hand. Anybody else have this in their neighborhood?
I did. That's part of the reason I moved out to the sticks.
I can't match Wally's story tho..the only time I found a bullet hole in the apartment was when I came back after spending a week at Road Atlanta for the Petit a few years ago.
No gunshots, but we do get the whirlybird throughout the day and night.
My friend came up and spent the night, in the morning he complained: "How the hell do yoou sleep here, it's too damn quiet! Crickets! Arrrggghhh!"
I saw a cop go by in November.
While living in the sticks my sisters house was shot three times... apparently if your trailer is smaller than 14x70 they look like deer.
Should've painted the trailer orange I guess?
cwh wrote: No idea what is going on, do not feel like it's a good idea to go out and ask Officer Friendly what is going on.
I would just yell out the door "Hey, I got kids in here - if you want them alive tell me whats going on." Show him your friend then slam the door.
no police activity in my area, it must be a local invasion... 
After awhile, you get tired of watching the LE olympics in your front yard. when the field moved to my back yard, and the bad guy is running so close to you you need to clothesline his ass so pd can catch up, its time to move.
now i just wave to local sergeant a couple of mornings a week , he has coffee while watching the stop sign down the block , and the dudes so big he can clothesline his own bad guys , probably without even getting out of the car... not as exciting anymore, but i like it much better...
924guy wrote: After awhile, you get tired of watching the LE olympics in your front yard. when the field moved to my back yard, and the bad guy is running so close to you you need to clothesline his ass so pd can catch up, its time to move
First clue should have been the chalked body outline on the sidewalk in front of the 7-11 next door and all the police barricade tape.
If I stand in the back yard of chez Jensen and throw a rock hard enough I will hit the local police station. That is A Good Thing. I rarely see them except for the patrols through the 'hood just keeping an eye on things.
We lived in a bad part of town until last June. The street we lived on was ok, and our neighbors were cool, but we were backed by a small strip mall where lots of undesirables hung out, and we were one block away from a large public housing project. We heard at least a dozen sirens per day, gunfire at least once a week, and that strip mall saw two murders last year.
We bought a house in the sticks right before last Thanksgiving. Our new neighbors, a small herd of cows, don't raise much of a ruckus. I've heard two sirens in three months.
When my dad was teaching high school there, the back of the police station in Compton, CA was machine gunned. They shot out all the windows.
The only time I'm likely to see the police around my house would be if they are looking for possible methlabs, or DEC cops during hunting season.
Gotta love the sticks
Have you all heard? There is no more crime in South Central Los Angeles! Yep, it is never on the news, no murders, no crime, no nothing...
...that South Los Angles though, that place is a freakin' hell hole...
(Its kind of an inside LA joke, not really a funny joke, but definitely a joke)
I see a cop on my street about once a week.. but then my street only runs a block so they have little reason to slip through.
minimac wrote: First clue should have been the chalked body outline on the sidewalk in front of the 7-11 next door and all the police barricade tape.
I knew a guy who owned/lived in a rowhouse in town. Cops chasing a perp shot the perp down on my friend's backdoor stoop. The next day my friend painted in the chalk outline so it would stay around as a permanent reminder to anybody else who came snooping round...
The deputy chief of police lives across the street from me. she is in charge of all detectives. Funny, our street is pretty quiet, must be the police van that sits in front of her house.
Before I moved to Florida, I lived in a new development in Boardman Ohio. Local Chief of Police was three houses away. Yeah, that was a very quiet street. Liked it that way. About the ONLY thing I miss about Ohio.
914Driver wrote: My friend came up and spent the night, in the morning he complained: "How the hell do yoou sleep here, it's too damn quiet! Crickets! Arrrggghhh!"
I once had to help rehab an old farmhouse.. beautiful old place. The couple that bought it had gotten tired of NYC and wanted a quiet place to retire.
It lasted a month until they moved back to NYC and put it back up for sale.. their reason.. it was too quiet, it made them nervous
I got home from work to find my driveway was smeared with oil in a large x or arrow type pattern that took some effort. I though I was special, but I noticed the same pattern was tagged on the street itself a few blocks up. I think they realized my shared driveway would show up better on google maps. I thought about pouring some gasoline on it & lighting it up to burn off the oil, but... city folk.... gangs are ok, but gasoline fires are somehow bad.
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