It’s very likely I missed one, I don’t always read the newspaper but I did mention the one in an apartment complex, that was the follow home from Harrahs by the fallbrook gang member. The other one you mentioned doesn’t stat as a murder just yet because she is in the hospital and don’t dramatize it with “left to die” people called the police and ambulance right away. The synopsis is that two boys were fighting over her, she tried to intervene, got pushed or hit, hit her head on the curb and is now on life support, tragedy, but hardly something that can attributed to a specific area, these things happen, high school boys fight every day, I did and I grew up in one of the nicest places known and even as a boy I remember a kid who got into a high school fight, got hit once and somehow died. But we didn’t pack up and move because it was unsafe for me to be raised there.
Do what you like, move somewhere else, I don’t care, but it would be irrational. Is Sabre springs/Scripps unsafe because of the Westerfield case? In reality it is probably safer now, but in the months that followed people moved out because of fear and there were bargains to be had in that neighborhood. How about Rancho Santa Fe after Heavans Gate, the worst mass suicide in the country’s history? Does it make you fear you will join a cult and kill yourself? Or Brentwood after O.J. Simpson. You have to look at cases specifically and realize the risk factors. No matter where you live, if you have a crazy spouse or ex-spouse, or a crazy relative who owns a gun, isn’t taking their medication and is mad at you, it really doesn’t matter where you live. Since almost every case that has you worried has some sort of domestic angle and 4 of the cases was a single event, be careful who you live with rather than where you live.
I also won’t argue that during my almost 20 years here, it hasn’t gotten worse or at least the volume hasn’t risen. When there were 30k people here, there was less to read about. Now that the valley has more than 300k, 100k in Temecula city limits alone. It would seem like there are ten times more incidents,there should be, but that isn’t how you measure risk, you measure crimes per thousand residents, not totals.
