Home Insecurity

Jonathan and I recently moved. We've been in our new place for six days. Here are some of the lovely things we've seen so far.

One night we came home to an army of police cars surrounding a neighbor's door.

The next day, we were driving to the store when we saw a police SUV speeding down the street with the emergency lights on. Returning from the store, we saw a car pulled over, another police SUV, and a regular police car. Two scruffy-looking men were taking pictures of the back seat of the pulled over car. We think they were probably plain-clothes detectives. Or something.

That night, we got back from dinner and saw a firetruck and ambulance crowded around another door in our apartment complex.

Also, one of the residents in our complex has an ankle bracelet. He is not ashamed at all; he walks around in shorts. Another resident probably was waiting to do a drug deal one night while we were moving boxes in. He was just standing motionless by his car. We walked back and forth between the car and apartment five or six times, and he didn't move the whole time.

Anyway, the moral of the story is that we're probably going to be stabbed one night, but at least the police will be really familiar with the neighborhood, so they'll be able to respond quickly.