Media spiking the northside crime outbreak?

[Friendly Bear]

Rumors are making the rounds that there has been a serious, unreported crime wave of home invasions of occupied houses, and burglaries of vacant houses on the Tulsa northside, due to the loss of electricity.  

Additional police personnel were re-deployed north to help control what has been a serious crime problem.

Just a rumor?   MH2010?

[FOTD]

quote:Originally posted by Friendly Bear

Rumors are making the rounds that there has been a serious, unreported crime wave of home invasions of occupied houses, and burglaries of vacant houses on the Tulsa northside, due to the loss of electricity.  

Additional police personnel were re-deployed north to help control what has been a serious crime problem.

Just a rumor?   MH2010?

Growing up in Tulsa, the north side was cast as a criminal part of town. It was a place to fear.

I was surprised by the lack of crime reported last week and was wondering, did it take a back page to PSO's cya or did the news agencies lower their priority on reporting crime due to the lack of reporters?

Seems there's always "rumors" about north Tulsa.
Ever wonder why that is?

[Friendly Bear]

quote:Originally posted by FOTD

quote:Originally posted by Friendly Bear

Rumors are making the rounds that there has been a serious, unreported crime wave of home invasions of occupied houses, and burglaries of vacant houses on the Tulsa northside, due to the loss of electricity.  

Additional police personnel were re-deployed north to help control what has been a serious crime problem.

Just a rumor?   MH2010?

Growing up in Tulsa, the north side was cast as a criminal part of town. It was a place to fear.

I was surprised by the lack of crime reported last week and was wondering, did it take a back page to PSO's cya or did the news agencies lower their priority on reporting crime due to the lack of reporters?

Seems there's always "rumors" about north Tulsa.
Ever wonder why that is?

The rumors seem pretty solid.  

The principal source has a family member married to a TPD police officer, who was temporarily redeployed to the northside, and then related a multitude of burglaries of vacant homes, and home invasions of OCCUPIED homes, due to the prolonged electrical outage.

After a day, the bad people realized that the outage would probably be prolonged, and therefore they acted under cover of darkness.

MH2010, come out, come out, wherever you are?

Maybe MH2010 got REPLOYED to the northside, too...............

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by Friendly Bear

quote:Originally posted by FOTD

quote:Originally posted by Friendly Bear

Rumors are making the rounds that there has been a serious, unreported crime wave of home invasions of occupied houses, and burglaries of vacant houses on the Tulsa northside, due to the loss of electricity.  

Additional police personnel were re-deployed north to help control what has been a serious crime problem.

Just a rumor?   MH2010?

Growing up in Tulsa, the north side was cast as a criminal part of town. It was a place to fear.

I was surprised by the lack of crime reported last week and was wondering, did it take a back page to PSO's cya or did the news agencies lower their priority on reporting crime due to the lack of reporters?

Seems there's always "rumors" about north Tulsa.
Ever wonder why that is?

The rumors seem pretty solid.  

The principal source has a family member married to a TPD police officer, who was temporarily redeployed to the northside, and then related a multitude of burglaries of vacant homes, and home invasions of OCCUPIED homes, due to the prolonged electrical outage.

After a day, the bad people realized that the outage would probably be prolonged, and therefore they acted under cover of darkness.

MH2010, come out, come out, wherever you are?

Maybe MH2010 got REPLOYED to the northside, too...............

if this is the case, in a few weeks you will be able to verify it by utilizing the crime mapping system at TPD website with the new stats.

[tulsa_fan]

I'm going to say not so much.  There was crime, yes, but my husband, who actually works patrol northside, worked all week and only saw much trouble on Tuesday night.  It seemed better controlled after that.  He worked until 4 am Tue, Wed and Thur nights and I rode around part of Friday and it was dead.  I know it picked up later after I went home, but still nothing out of the ordinary . . . . I'm sure there were some spikes, but I think TPD was dispatched appropriately and most everyone I know is back working their normal beats.

[jne]

http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/1207/481566.html

[patric]

quote:Originally posted by FOTD

I was surprised by the lack of crime reported last week and was wondering, did it take a back page to PSO's cya or did the news agencies lower their priority on reporting crime due to the lack of reporters?

We are conditioned to assume blackouts breed crime in part due to decades of utility marketing campaigns, and media agencies gravitate to the first routine burglary they find to capitalize on an anxious audience.

Wouldnt it be just amazing to find that crime, while spiking in some areas actually might have gone down in most others?  I guess well see when the data is aggregated.

[TulsaFan-inTexas]

It's still sad to see that lady in the news spot talking about the things stolen and how it will be a bleak Christmas this year.

[waterboy]

If history repeats, look for a spike in births around June of next year. When NY lost power back in the mid sixties, people reverted to old fashioned entertainment. Course that was a summertime power failure. I certainly had no interest in carnal activities when my bedroom temp dropped to below 30degrees.[]

[MH2010]

quote:Originally posted by Friendly Bear

quote:Originally posted by FOTD

quote:Originally posted by Friendly Bear

Rumors are making the rounds that there has been a serious, unreported crime wave of home invasions of occupied houses, and burglaries of vacant houses on the Tulsa northside, due to the loss of electricity.  

Additional police personnel were re-deployed north to help control what has been a serious crime problem.

Just a rumor?   MH2010?

Growing up in Tulsa, the north side was cast as a criminal part of town. It was a place to fear.

I was surprised by the lack of crime reported last week and was wondering, did it take a back page to PSO's cya or did the news agencies lower their priority on reporting crime due to the lack of reporters?

Seems there's always "rumors" about north Tulsa.
Ever wonder why that is?

The rumors seem pretty solid.  

The principal source has a family member married to a TPD police officer, who was temporarily redeployed to the northside, and then related a multitude of burglaries of vacant homes, and home invasions of OCCUPIED homes, due to the prolonged electrical outage.

After a day, the bad people realized that the outage would probably be prolonged, and therefore they acted under cover of darkness.

MH2010, come out, come out, wherever you are?

Maybe MH2010 got REPLOYED to the northside, too...............

Sorry, I guess I missed this thread.  I got redeployed to watch businesses that did not have any power. I didn't hear of a major crime wave in North Tulsa during the power outages.

[PonderInc]

I got the feeling that there were more cops on the streets at night during the outage.  Perhaps this is because I got "spotlighted" by a cruiser while cooking on a campstove on my front porch! Still, it made me happy to know that the TPS was keeping their eyes open for any weirdness...in my case, making sure all that steam was just me making coffee on my fabulous stove, and not the house catching on fire.