[Zarcath]

New Years day morning someone tried to bust into my moms car, they broke the lock up but they didn't get in. Three days before that our neighbor got their lock broken too. Two months ago my window got smashed, a few months before that someone broke the doorhandle off my old car and months before that someone did succeed in breaking into my moms car.

So in the last year we've had 4 break ins costing us about $1,000, since each case the damage was minor enough not to be covered by the deductable.

We live in an apartment and there's limited garage parking so a lot of us have to park on the street right out in front. The problems are two-fold.

1. There's a street cross walk that spans across the freeway that leads to many middle-schools for what I'd call low/lower middle-class kids. Also a shitty ass park around the corner, so there's a lot of foot traffic from undersirables.

2. The area we park at has about a 9 foot wall on the apartment side, so from the apartment looking down and out to the street, you can't see the parked cars.

I'm pissed. I know another neighbor got their car broken into while it was in the garage. I know the police can't do shit to catch who evers doing this. Is there anything that can be done?

I was thinking something like a neighborhood watch, but I can't concieve of a way to keep an eye on our cars 24/7 without it being a pain in the ass. If I set up a camera it could be easily destroyed, and theres no gaurantee I would catch their face. I was thinking about setting my car up with bait (leaving my stereo faceplate in and my ipod), but if I miss them I lose out on a lot, and even if I do catch them, I'm still going to get car damage, and I don't think anyone reimburses good semeritans?

The break ins seem to occur in the early mornings, from about 2-8ish AM.

Is there anyone we can threaten to do something about it? the landlord? doesn't this devalue the property or something?