Visible police presence at night might help. Use that officer on the little two wheel thingamagig.

cameras monitoring the downtown is a good idea. It could be linked to the police dept. or taped. Just have to come up with the money to do it...

There have been several recent car break-ins in the downtown area where bricks were used either to break, or attempt to break windows. You have to wonder if the thiefs are getting braver since they weren't caught breaking into cars and stealing loose change.

Several downtown businesses get broken into, and that news is placed on the second page of the second section of the paper - I find this strange. Additionally, why wasn't the break-in at Habitat for Humanity mentioned? Why wasn't the nature of these break-ins described? The one at Habitat involved a brick thrown in through the front glass door. I think that the other break-ins were the same. So what we have are brazen front door entrys by simply throwing bricks through glass - and this is happening within a few blocks of the police dept. and right in plain view of the two most heavily travelled streets in our city. A front page article was warranted. A solicitation to public discussion is in order, e.g., should we have cameras monitoring the downtown? I own a downtown business, and I am about to screw 3/4 4x8 plywood to the metal frames which hold my storefront glass. Unless we want our precious historic downtown Salisbury to look like East Saint Louis, we at least need our newspaper to let the community know what is happening to our downtown.