Crime in city out of control

I would like to share my story about my house being broken into, big rock being thrown through my house window just to steal my wallet – they raided my shed, disabled my flood lights.

About how unsafe I feel living in this city and my own home.

About how our crime rate is unbelievably high.

Even admitted by police since the forest fires. About how our justice system is a joke and I was told by police dispatch, the third time my car was broken into, that even if they catch the criminals they’re usually let go.

I told them it’s only a matter of time before my house is broken into and how scared I was, and that my neighbourhood needs more patrols.

They brushed it off and then my house gets broken into. Even now my case seems to be barely getting handled as I found a cell phone in my wallet when a stranger who found it returned it to me and the police won’t get back to me on taking this cellphone that isn’t mine.

These criminals seem to be more protected than we are.

The jails aren’t even a punishment... my mom is a corrections officer and she says the ones who are constantly in and basically look it is as home.

It’s not a bad place for them to be. These people are not being sentenced properly.

They’ll barely be a prisoner and now I will be a prisoner of fear for the rest of my life. I have so much to say and maybe my stories can get us enough attention that maybe things can be revised and maybe we can get more help.

Most of the time I’m being told there’s just so much going on that these so-called “little things” get by passed.

But I don’t feel this problem is little anymore.

If there’s too much going on then we need more help. Jennifer Kayla Kapeller,

Prince George