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I lived at Chatham Village, across from the park, about 20 years ago. Had taken a job in North Carolina and was leaving the next morning, in November mind you. My roommates were having a going away party for me that night when we get a knock on the door at about 11:00. It was a cop asking who owned the maroon four runner with the U-Haul behind it, it was me obviously. Somebody had busted out my passenger side window and stolen my stereo. They caught the guys, 3 black guys ranging in age from 15 to 19. The 15 year old had a .45 in his waistband. That was a long, cold, quiet drive to the mountains, as it was in November remember and I didn't have time to get my window fixed. Didn't hear anything from JPD for a few weeks, so I called them. They said they had had to release 2 of em due to lack of evidence, they were in a car loaded with stuff they had stolen from other cars, the only one they were pursuing was the 15 year old that was packing. Did get my stereo back though.

This is all shocking to read. What y'all gonna do about it? Just move?

I don't keep anything of value in my truck usually. I expect it to be gone every morning when I wake up. They have tried to break in to both sides of my truck. I have holes under each door handle. It sad.

The one time I did travel with guns in the back of my truck this winter we stopped to eat at the Mexican joint near the Pearl River Bridge on lakeland. Tried to break in but the handle broke. Stole my buddies computer and sports coat out of his Tahoe.

I was so very lucky.

You can't do anything about it. The city is so full of young criminals with shattered home you just have to learn to coexist if you are going to live here.

What would a non swimmer want a sport coat for?

Caller1 wrote:This is all shocking to read. What y'all gonna do about it? Just move?

Personally, I try to avoid Jackson as much as possible, even though that is where my job is located. When I first got out of college, Jackson was THE place in Mississippi to go get a job. Then the "White Flight" started happening and it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Now, many of the good people who work in Jackson live in other communities.

I don't think I am alone when I say that I stay away from Jackson. Why head INTO trouble when it is so much easier to try and avoid it in the first place?

jacksbuddy wrote:

Caller1 wrote: Now, many of the good people who work in Jackson live in other communities.

Yep....go downtown on a Saturday morning and it's a ghost town.

Got done eating at Que Sera a few years back, got to my truck and it had been broken into....F250, they just popped it open right under the keypad...it's about time for the annual crime spree to start back up in Clinton, always seems to happen once the weather starts to warm up....

SNOT wrote:Got done eating at Que Sera

I thought that was a gay bar?

Roach wrote:Hey it's not only Fords.
My Chevrolet 2500HD had the screwdriver trick done to it. Stolen out of my office parking lot at 2:00pm in Jafrica!
Just another reason my office is now in Ridgeland!

I have a Chevy 1500 and the screwdriver underneath the door handle is what they used in my work parking lot.

sounds like we all need to invest in these Jimmi Jammer things.
http://www.trucksecurity.com/JJ%20Superdutydetail.html

Anyone know if the newer fords ever changed this locking mechanism or what?

4dawgma wrote:

SNOT wrote:Got done eating at Que Sera

I thought that was a gay bar?

Well that would explain why my waiter was walking around like he just spent a month in prison.

teul2 wrote:sounds like we all need to invest in these Jimmi Jammer things.
http://www.trucksecurity.com/JJ%20Superdutydetail.html

I will be ordering those and getting an alarm installed.

This is EXACTLY how my truck door looks!

I guess the infamous Bronco II doesn't have this problem.

In all seriousness though, are they just hitting pick-ups or are SUVs targets as well?

I guess I am bucking the trend here but I live in Jackson and love it. I live off East Northside Dr in a great neighborhood full of young families with kids. There is some crime in our area but my parents live in Dinsmore and they complain about crime there as well, heck I have a sister who lives in Greenville and she claims the crime there is worse. The sad fact of the mater is that we live in a country with a government that encourages dependency on that government in turn we get people who never become productive. It becomes generational and you have young black boys and some white who have absolutely no structure in their lives. The govt replaced the father in the black family. I don't care what color you are if a boy is raised in an environment with no structure no father figure to form him then the odds of that boy becoming a productive member of society have gone way down. We can sit here and complain about crime all we want but until we have a major overhaul of how we treat the underprivileged in our country then things won't get much better.