Thursday, February 03, 2005
 
Make Your Prediction

So, gentle reader, what do you think will result from this crime?
    As the store's alarm rang, thieves made off with 32 rifles and handguns from a Fremont gun shop early Wednesday, less than two weeks after police announced they will soon ignore burglar alarms unless there was a confirmed crime.

    Irvington Arms owner Martin MacDonald was livid over the break-in at his shop, where burglars used an aluminum baseball bat to break the front door and smashed display cases with a crowbar before making off with $20,000 in weapons.

    MacDonald blamed the break-in on the Police Department's policy -- announced last month but not effective until Feb. 18 -- that officers won't respond to burglar alarms unless they are told there is evidence of a break-in or security breach.

    "I think they basically invited crime into the neighborhood," said MacDonald, 35. "It's on every channel and in the newspaper. They might as well have said, in bold print, 'Commit robbery in Fremont,' because the PD won't respond. This was unacceptable."
Will the community of Fremont:
  • Scale back its police non-intervention program, ensuring that perhaps someone should drive by places with their alarms ringing.

  • Ban the sale of guns in Fremont, because if it ain't in Fremont, it can't be stolen in Fremont, and when only outlaws can put guns for sale that other outlaws can steal, those other outlaws will have to steal the guns for sale from someone else, preferably in a different jurisdiction.
If you're here for anything but a weird Google search involving hot pix of one sort or another, you know which one I think Fremont will implement.


- posted by Brian J. @ 9:01 AM
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