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Abraham wrote:I am disinclined to shop at a mall where someone in authority thinks a guard tower of sorts is required.... Until now, I shopped there quite frequently.

Please tell them, and include your ZIP code.

In a similar vein, I once made a reservation at a name-brand motel in a town where I had never been before (this was pre-internet).

When I got there, I first had to be buzzed in through the entrance; and the "receptionist" was behind bulletproof glass.

Needless to say I had a restful night's sleep.

- Jim

Excaliber wrote: ...Part of the reason for planting them in parking lots likely has to do with justifying the cost of purchase with deployed time numbers.

It reminds me of this.

Ameer wrote:It reminds me of this.

...and causes me to wonder who's relative sells these contraptions?

I don't know if I would want to be in that if it was windy.

Probably it has stabilizing feet like a cherry picker, and we hardly ever have hurricanes around here.

Can somebody cruise by and check out this thing?

- Jim

You are correct in saying that the OP will be staffed by the League City Citizen Police Academy Alumni, so it may or may not be staffed each time it's used. There are members of the CPA alumni group who are not retired, such as me . And I'm really looking forward to taking a ride on that thing. I do believe that people have a responsibility for their own safety. However, as long as there are citizens who are not responsible and choose to leave bait (such as visible valuables and unlocked cars) that draw bad guys to my neighborhood, I'm going to try and do what I can to make them go elsewhere!

I'll let you know what the wind is like after I've taken a shift.

T.

I'm sure we all eagerly await your report.

It may be that this tower causes the crooks to simply go elsewhere, such as the HEB across I-45 or the smaller strip malls that are all around there.

- Jim

They have these all over Plano and Allen area. I am not sure how much they have deterred crime, but they are in use and intermittently staffed. As a cool note, the ones here have anemometers on them and if the wind gets above a certain speed, the system automatically lowers the unit to the trailer.

We have them in Grapevine.

I've not really been looking but I don't think we have any in Rusk.

Oldgringo wrote:I've not really been looking but I don't think we have any in Rusk.

They just climb up in the trees over there.

Keith B wrote:

Oldgringo wrote:I've not really been looking but I don't think we have any in Rusk.

They just climb up in the trees over there.

seamusTX wrote:I'm sure we all eagerly await your report.

It may be that this tower causes the crooks to simply go elsewhere, such as the HEB across I-45 or the smaller strip malls that are all around there.

- Jim

I wondered about that myself. I guess the crime analysis guy will be able to tell if the increase at HEB is directly related to the OP being staged at Wal-mart across the street.

T.

TLynnHughes wrote:I guess the crime analysis guy will be able to tell if the increase at HEB is directly related to the OP being staged at Wal-mart across the street.

That brings up the question of why the League City PD is protecting the Walmart parking lot and not others (though Walmart may well be the city's biggest single revenue source—I don't know).

Then, if the tower is rotated around, the crooks can simply avoid the parking lot that it happens to be in that day or night.

- Jim