Comments on: Dublin Police Crack Down on Burglaries in Dublin Ranch

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

just do what danville does…seems to work over there. or at least more strict punishment for crime violators or they will jsut do it again

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I agree with installing a gate at Bent Tree – it is so open to EVERYONE right now – especially that a LOT of cars pass by to access the freeway via Croak Rd (and they’re not even our residents)… And true, it adds to the home’s value whe they are in a \gated community\….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This is an interesting idea:-)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Also setup a security webcam to transmit through the web to your work.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

It’s simple. If you have a yard, get more dogs…guard dogs. And make sure your home has a doggy door.

Outside of that, the HOA should be paying for security guards.

By: John M. Zukoski

John M. Zukoski — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Robyn – I’m sorry to hear about your horrendous experience. I’d like to suggest that you contact Mayor Tim Sbranti to share these concerns. He can be reached at tim.sbranti@ci.dublin.ca.us.

Cheers,
John Z.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Very good point Robyn. Dublin police is a joke. I guess they prefer hiding all day trying to catch people speeding than doing a real job catching burglars.

It is sad that your Neighborhood Watch plan didn’t work out. North Dublin Ranch is small and maybe if the HOA leaders succeed in raising awareness across the whole neighborhood, it will happen. Isaw it was on the agenda last week. People are increasingly selfish in our society and will only wake up when it happens to them. 5 burglaries in such a small area means something…except for our busy overpaid policemen.

By: Robyn

Robyn — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I just stumbled on this blog and this story, but even though I’m late, I had to leave a comment. I live in North Dublin Ranch, and last April, our house was burglarized on a Wednesday afternoon. The burglar blew off our front door frame to get in. The police did essentially nothing beyond showing up and filing a police report. When I spoke to a detective about the case a couple weeks later, he said the police have better things to do than investigate burglaries. He also said that the officers who responded to our call actually went above and beyond the call of duty by knocking on my next-door neighbor’s door and asking if he saw anything. Future prevention was obviously not a priority. The Neighborhood Watch team was extremely helpful, but none of my neighbors were interested in forming a watch group. I handed out more than 30 flyers to my immediate neighbors for a Neighborhood Watch meeting with a personal note about how our home was burglarized, and I talked in person to everyone I could. Only 4 people bothered to RSVP, and only 2 other families showed up to the meeting. I work from home and drive in and out of this neighborhood several times a day. I have noticed no increase in police presence here since our incident in April and certainly not since this rash of burglaries in August. Nor have I received any additional information from Crime Prevention as noted in this article. We have made significant safety improvements to our home since the burglary, and now we just hope that our house is harder to break into than our neighbor’s so we will be spared in the future. But when the police won’t investigate and the neighbors don’t care, what else can you do?