Your comments, as usual, add much more to my thinking and description of my last post. So it seems like another post is needed to reply.
This event was probably some kid looking for some easy money. In other words , he was looking for unlocked cars and most cars contain a little change. He also got lucky and found an unlocked garage.
From your comments, I gather that crime is very different in other places. I had a couple of planters stolen but that's it. A few years ago somebody saw a kid going up my driveway at 1:00 AM. My security light scared him off. The kid walked across the street and found an unlocked car and got $8.75. How do I know? He got caught.
We are fortunate in this country to have fairly low levels of crime and the crime rate has been going down for years.
Now here come the stats!
Last year murder rates dropped in Canada to the lowest rate since 1966. We had 505 homicides in Canada in 2013. Now that's 505 too many. 25 % of these homicides were committed with guns.
The overall crime rate has been falling since 1969.
I cannot see why our government is foaming at the mouth about crime when the rate is going the right way. We try and keep people out of detention as much as possible as prisons are the best crime school in the country. Very few houses have guns in Canada. The crooks know there probably are no guns so they are not armed and as a result less murder and weapons involved in crime.
The drug world is completely different. They go after each other and they use guns.
So I feel like I live in a very safe country. Yes , there are places in my city that I would not go to at night, but overall I feel very safe.
