Who's doing this stuff? Where are they coming from? How long has this been going on? The police are rather useless in preventing these things it seems... They spend their time writing tickets on Whitney Ave. for people going 35 mph rather than solving these bigger problems that the taxpaying populace actually cares about. I am deeply bothered by it.

It leads me to conclude that we need to catch them ourselves. Bait them and set up cameras to catch them in the act.

The car break-ins are a recent occurrence. We've lived in Whitneyville for over 5 years and this is the first rash of car break-ins of which I've been aware. Our car was affected -- thankfully nothing was stolen. The thieves prey on unlocked cars -- so far, no one has broken car windows. The Hamden Police think the culprits are 15-18 year old kids from New Haven. I'm glad to hear that a thief was recently caught on Mill Rock Rd/WInchester Rd.

My car was locked but my garage was not They stole a new milwaukee demo hammer still in its red box and a new palm sander (no box) This happened about 3 months ago. My garage now has two new lock cylinders that work every time. So they than broke the glass with BB guns next. That was about a month ago. My losses total about $1200.00

Nothing in the last 4 weeks (so far) Lock every thing including your doors and hatchways. I have lived here for 57 years. And plan on many many more!

This happened to me on paroumt. Forgot to lock car door ancient broken iPod stolen from glove box

Did it happen today (tue, Mar 27th)? It seems to coincide with garbage day, which may be an indicator of the type of people involved. i.e., those that are rifling through recyclables for deposit cans, etc... It happened to me on a tuesday as well.

I put a light with a motion detector in my back yard. Also wiring up a little voice recording that plays when the light comes on.. "hey you! beat it!!"

No it was Monday 12th at night. I heard something but I figured it was someone going through the recycling - it put me on edge and I checked the doors and windows but didn't think of the car

Yeah, so Monday night = garbage night, right? At least for us it is, and you're only a couple streets over, so I thought it was the same... Everyone I've talked to says Monday night into Tuesday is when the creepie-crawlies come of the woodwork and invade our neighborhood. I know I see lots of them rooting through the garbage cans, etc. on Monday evening and into the wee hours of Tuesday morning... Oh well. The cops say kids, but I really think this is more opportunistic than that...

Ya Monday nights Tuesday morning the pickers come out- generally 2 kinds I've noticed: cans and bottles and scrappers. Both opportunistic... Though I'm not as concerned with either of them. Both are pretty high profile making plenty of noise. Besides that, it's kind of a territory thing - don't sh** where you eat

Though thus makes me think that we have signs posted all around our neighborhood about a "neighborhood watch" but does such a thing exist?

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