The last time I came home and found our home thoroughly ransacked, I called the police from my neighbor's house and waited nearly six hours for officers to arrive. Had the Los Angeles Police Dept. Eventually we were forced to spend money we could not afford to install bars on all windows, from which we can look out at my hometown. I remember when my elderly neighbor added this garage door. It was covered by grafiti almost instantly.
Vandalism is a sport here.
This trash has been here for nearly two months as I write this. In this location we have been burglarized five times. The bars have thus far kept thieves out of the house, but they have since stolen our patio furniture and broken into a shed where yardtools were kept. Our property is bordered from behind by an alley, with a second alley running at a right angle on the west side of our lot. At one time the alleys were used by the city for waste collection.