RPV reader 'taken aback' by vehicle burglaries at Green Hills
about vehicle burglaries at cemeteries.I knew that theft and robbery are some of the largest crimes that occur on a day to day basis. However, before reading your article I have never even imagined that criminals would act so low as to break in citizen's cars and steal when they are mourning with their lost loved one. I was taken aback when I read the story of the young woman and her mother who visited the grave of her father and realized her car
has been broken into.
As a child, my parents taught me to always have respect for anyone, let alone the dead. Ever since my grandmother passed, I too visit her resting ground at Green Hills Memorial Park, and not once have I ever thought of our car being broken into. While visiting a grave or burial ground, I believe the visitors are in a state of peace, reconnecting with their loved ones while everything is off their mind except the deceased family or friend.
Now, putting myself into a criminal's mind, I realized that it might be perhaps the perfect chance to rob an innocent victim without their knowledge. Obviously, a criminal without a heart or respect of the dead could only pull off this mastermind theft, as the article states, "It really is sick," Frew said."But (thieves) just figure it's a crime of opportunity" (Altman).
I believe that theft in any way is wrong, let alone in cemeteries.. Just as your
article states, Mr. Altman, it is like stealing from the dead themselves. In order to figure out where criminals will act next, we must put ourselves into their shoes. I am sure our police departments are doing the best they can in preventing more and more of these horrible and heartless crimes form reoccurring. For the time being, we should all take extra caution and make sure we lock our car doors wherever we go, not just when visiting our loved ones.
I enjoyed reading your article and hope to see many more in the near future.
Sincerely,
Andrew Minassi
Rancho Palos Verdes
Photo by Steve McCrank/Daily Breeze
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Larry Altman has covered crime in the South Bay since 1990. He's seen it all - the missing model who turned up dead in the desert, the wives found dead in trunks, the high-school coaches who get a little too close to their players. He drives his young colleagues nuts with his "I remember when" stories. He welcomes your tips and observations about the present, and you can mix in a little Lakers basketball talk if you like.
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Denise Nix knew as young as grade school, when she spent every summer working on the camp newspaper, that she wanted to be a journalist. Denise has spent most of the last 12 years of her career in the courtroom. She joined the Daily Breeze in 2001, where she tracks and reports on hundreds of cases at every level of the justice system. And she's never, ever, seen a judge use a gavel.
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