What Christmas shopping in my city has come to.

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Geezerette

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Our police department just posted on their FB page a series of 12 tips to avoid becoming a crime victim while shopping. Starting with, wear a coat with deep pockets, leave your purse home, only carry keys, ID & credit card, cover the pad when you enter any numbers, don’t leave anything visible in your car, and on and on. Basically how to start out being prepared to be attacked and your car broken into. Which has become a fact of daily life here. Repeat criminals constantly being released w/o bond, depressing for the cops to see the same filth over and over. Having to be constantly vigilant every time setting foot outside your door, especially if one likes to, or needs to, do things alone.
Have to fight to hang onto any Christmas spirit.
 

Some of the cities seem to be almost "war zones". When I see some of this crap on the news, it makes me glad that we live in a quiet rural area, where the average weekly police reports usually consist of a couple of DUI's, and a nuisance barking dog.
 
I just cannot go about my day and worry about being attacked one way or another if I go out.
I may be naive, but I still believe in the majority of people doing good, and being kind out on the streets around town.

The few trouble makers make the evening news, so we get so defensive to everyone we meet. That's sad.
 
@Geezerette That’s basically the advice we’ve been given for years. Women, especially seniors, were advised to wear a fanny pack under their coats or a crossbody purse. Too many were getting snatched in broad daylight. Leaving anything visible in your car is an invitation to theft.

On FB, there are regular reminders from the RCMP to go out at 9 PM and be sure your car is locked, any valuables around the house are removed, doors are locked. There’s no sympathy from me every time I read a boo hoo about the theft from someone’s car and they say “I never leave my car unlocked and the wallet inside…..”.

The police know the court system has let us down and they can’t do anything. We have to look out for ourselves.
 
MAN ALIVE! I don't know where you folks live but you good people present one awful picture of living in a very sad and dangerous place. No such problem here. I feel very safe where I live. However, I am not shopping for Christmas as I have given up the commercial rat race after my wife passed away. No, I don't miss it. Christmas used to be about the birth of Jesus. Now, it's about smartphones, ROKU TVs and blue tooth speaker bars for the TV. What a sad state this western world has become. People just buying things that will soon be obsolete and end up in the landfills. Good luck solving global warming! You gonna need it.
 

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