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How to keep your home, vehicle safe
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By MEGAN DOYLE
H&N Staff writer
Most people feel violated when a thief breaks into their vehicle or home.
Often, the thief will take a wallet with money, credit cards and personal identification, and it takes time to replace or retrieve everything.
In the last year, more than 200 cases of thefts from vehicles were reported to city and county law enforcement officers.
Following are some tips from local law enforcement officers to keep your home and vehicle safe:
For your vehicle
• Don’t leave valuables in your vehicle.
• Double-check to make sure your vehicle is secure.
• Park your vehicle near lit areas in a parking lot or at home. This is for your personal safety as well, said Mike Anderson, a detective with the Klamath Falls City Police Department.
• Don’t leave anything worth stealing in plain view. “If you don’t show them something of value they want, they’ll hopefully walk by,” Anderson said.
For your home:
• Make sure there is outdoor lighting around your home. Motion detector lights work well.
• Leave a porch light on.
• Know your neighbors.
• Consider starting a neighborhood watch group. Contact a local law enforcement agency to do so. “Neighbors looking out for each other is the big one,” said Klamath County Sheriff’s Office Detective Monty Holloway.
• Keep shrubbery away from windows and doors. A person can hide behind the shrubs waiting for you, or use them as cover as they break into your home.
Often, the thief will take a wallet with money, credit cards and personal identification, and it takes time to replace or retrieve everything.
In the last year, more than 200 cases of thefts from vehicles were reported to city and county law enforcement officers.
Following are some tips from local law enforcement officers to keep your home and vehicle safe:
For your vehicle
• Don’t leave valuables in your vehicle.
• Double-check to make sure your vehicle is secure.
• Park your vehicle near lit areas in a parking lot or at home. This is for your personal safety as well, said Mike Anderson, a detective with the Klamath Falls City Police Department.
• Don’t leave anything worth stealing in plain view. “If you don’t show them something of value they want, they’ll hopefully walk by,” Anderson said.
For your home:
• Make sure there is outdoor lighting around your home. Motion detector lights work well.
• Leave a porch light on.
• Know your neighbors.
• Consider starting a neighborhood watch group. Contact a local law enforcement agency to do so. “Neighbors looking out for each other is the big one,” said Klamath County Sheriff’s Office Detective Monty Holloway.
• Keep shrubbery away from windows and doors. A person can hide behind the shrubs waiting for you, or use them as cover as they break into your home.
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pril wrote on Oct 5, 2008 11:39 AM:
" sooo many of my friends like to josh me about the fact that I always lock my car, never leave my keys in the ignition and keep shiny things out of sight. Old habits from the place I moved from. Then they aren't laughing so hard when their wide open cars with the keys left in them get stolen or broken into. I'm always a little amazed that people will start their cars and leave them unattended, too. Might as well paint "free car" on it. "
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Fireye wrote on Oct 5, 2008 5:41 PM:
With the stroke of a pen they will destroy your life in one of thousands of technical ways that they now operate. I have seen to many young and old peoples lives wrecked and ruined with their endless technical violations, laws and rules that are always changing and you never hear about the changes until they decide to apply them to you. After all they have to keep convincing us why we need them and they have to justify the money they eat up thinking of new ways to control us according to what they dictate is "right". Even the most smallest of things anymore carries a lifetime worth of charges at the states discretion and everything is a felony. What a great way to disarm us by felonizing us all.
20 prisons in 20 years and nobody seems to notice.
It doesn't matter if you do not lie, cheat, steal, rob, rape, pillage, burn or murder as the truth is no defense anymore. If the state says you are a criminal for whatever reason they deem is "criminal"....then by god that is what you are and they ship you off to prison and treat you like an animal.
Bus loads of our young people are being shipped all over the u.s. to private prisons to keep them full so their stockholders can make even more blood money off of our suffering.
I know....I used to watch the bus loads come and go when I was in one of your prisons for a victimless "crime" of growing some marijuana plants. Never mind that it was made illegal illegally and is the most usefull plant known to man for thousands of years. I won't start on the rest of the atrocities I seen as a ward of the state as there is not enough room on this comment page.
Yes you might say i'm a little ticked off but so are a lot of other people that you will never hear from because they are to afraid to speak out..
But really.....what is there left to lose anymore. "