Joe,
It is really sad at the way things have changed. When I first moved up here from down at Santa Barbara everyone was friendly and there was no crime at all. A break in at one of the small stores was front page news and neighbors got together and talked in the evenings. Now nothing less than murder makes the front two pages and then it has to be some special thing such as a local politicians family or some other well known person. And all of the neighbors are living in fear and won't hardly speak to each other. A couple of months ago some idiot in Redding killed a man in a wheel chair because he was mad at his girlfriend and that guy happened to be the first one he saw. They are still debating if any charges should be filed as the man in the wheelchair was no one important. And of course the guy that did it was in grief and out of control because of his fight with his girlfriend. To bad one of the people around here that do carry wasn't there and just shot the guy and left. He will wind up ding a few months in jail and then be free. And the declining economy is really making things worse as the unemployment rate here has shot up to around 13% the last I saw.
Ron