Police at My Door, Again
12:33 PM PT, Jun 30 2006
Once again the police knocked on my door this morning. This time the officer wanted to know if I had seen anything. Here is what I saw. I looked out my window this morning and there were lots of police SUVs, many officers wandering around and there was a man with a busted up face sitting on the ground in handcuffs with a group of officers surrounding him. When I went to the corner store the narrative elements fell together: I saw another man with a different group of officers and the white pick up truck with blood on it. Anyway, apparently the fight was over the love of a woman who lives in another unit in my building. The ex boyfriend was the one in handcuffs (though it looked like he lost the fight). Meanwhile, today's paper offers the name of the suspect in the shooting of two people in my apartment complex June 21.
I appreciate all of you who have written suggesting I move. And, yes, I can afford to move; but extra thanks to those of you who have offered to loan me money (Mom!) to get out of here. Most everything that brings the police here seems to be a variant on domestic violence. Isn't that sadly inevitable in any large apartment complex? And, isn't there a certain amount of crime everywhere?
But I am not a masochist. My lease ends in April and, yes, it may be time to think of a strategic move to live to blog again, and cover Sin City from a slightly more secure locale.
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Don't sell out and move to the picket fence-lined suburbs, Richard. Your readers depend on you to uncover the gritty side of Las Vegas.
Posted by: Greg Cheeseman | June 30, 2006 at 06:36 PM
Your not gonna loose your franchise on covering the real side of Las Vegas just cause you move from your seemingly declining appartment complex. The fact of the matter (eloquently put by you) is that crime happens. Crime happens. I have heard worse stories of break-ins and vandalism from my clients living in the trendy Summerlin burb of The Vistas than I have had to report from my own "hoodish" locale of Lake Mead and Rancho.
If its gonna happen- then its gonna happen... regardless of where you are or what you have done to ameliorate your situation.
Move for the sake of changing your environment... move to get something nicer and newer. Yes, move, to a certain extent, to avoid seedy elements... just make sure that you don't exchange one crappy field for another.
Just cause you know how to uncover the gritty reality that can be Las Vegas doesn't mean you have live in it.
Though... If you move to some posh suburban enclave then whose stories of police knocking on doors will we have to keen into?
Posted by: Josh G. | July 01, 2006 at 12:01 PM
Summerlin sure looks pretty...
Posted by: LadyPhoenix | July 04, 2006 at 10:13 AM