A place where many never lock their doors
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12/22/2008
While stats show Sandpoint has typical crime compared to other small towns, many people here do not lock their doors. Murder is next to unheard of, and we don't have as much of a drug problem as neighboring communities. In fact, right across the border in Washington is a much larger meth issue than we have. Personally, I have never seen a tweaker in Sandpoint. Maybe I just don't know how to recognize them. When I mentioned to some folks that when I owned Walker Donuts, the hookers would stop by around 3am, they did not believe that we even had prostitution in Sandpoint. In fact, when a couple of women and a man booked a room at a local hotel, and tried to solicit on Craig's List, before they even got their first John, the authorities set up a sting and arrested the trio. Certainly we have burglaries, and other violent crimes. It just doesn't feel like it. In fact, were it not for the statistics that disprove the feeling, I would swear we had virtually no crime at all. But we do. Maybe we should lock our doors.
Gary | Sandpoint, ID