Originally Posted by robinlow

The officer's reply was, "If you live in Boston, get used to it (the crime). It has been happening for the past 50 years."

I felt that the remark was uncalled for, and does he mean that Boston has such high crime rates that we should relocate if we want to drive a nice leased car?

I just got the feeling that the officer does not care about the crime, and the police is not going to do anything about it as it is normal for a car to have its headlights stolen in Boston.

I am really disappointed...

Originally Posted by Wolfman

Look at it this way: If the same officer happened to come around while the miscreant was in the process of screwing with your vehicle, is there any doubt in your mind that the twerp would be appropriately manhandled, locked up, and prosecuted? (Yeah, and then Deval would be springing for DNA tests to prove his innocence, but that's another thread)

Police can't be everywhere all the time, and I'm certain they feel more than a little bit of frustration when they come upon something like this and essentially there's nothing they can do about it. More often than not, the police are called when it's too late to do anything but take a report. Multiply this by a few hundred a month for 20 years and put yourself in the officer's shoes. How would you respond?

Originally Posted by robinlow

The question that person asked was "Is there a recent increase in crime?" And he commented about some cars seen with broken windows on the street in the past few days and few headlights of nice cars got stolen.

I believe it is a yes/no question. A "no" would probably sound better than "Cars get broken into daily. It has been happening for 50 years now."