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Originally Posted by Karl F

OK.. I will prepare to get bashed.. migration, Section 8 housing.. a sagging RE market, has turned many landlords to go this way.. a court officer I know, transferred here from Brockton 15 years ago.. he told me he is now seeing more and more of his regulars from Brockton show up here.. Think about it though.. if you went for housing, and they sais, "We have an apartment in a triple decker in Lowell, Springfield, Brockton, etc... or a condo down on the cape"... What would you pick?

Drugs.. yes.. they are everywhere.. our PD's are playing catch-up, and are almost there... muct suck for them, for the most part they were traffic cops.. before all this.. and it has not been overnight.. last 10-15 years.. yes, there were drugs here before, but not at the scale we have now.. and we did have our "Save the Bails" t-shirts in the eighties.

I read the court reports, and the obits every AM as part of my job.. (helps me now when I do the ordering, believe it or not)..
I read somewhere in a study about the cape population last winter that only 15% of the population has lived in Barnstable county for over 20 years... I found that figure very telling.. I have to agree, there was a time you could stand in the local super market in the off sesaon and know EVERY one in there.. I go in ther now in January, and might see 3 or 4 people I have known longer than 4 or 5 years.

So.. my short answer, is.. migration of those prone to crime, Drugs, and a general shift in the population.. we have more folks on the high end coming here as well.. and those on the low end (forgive me for the generalized terms) now it.. All them high dollar trophy homes..make some folks wonder what is to be had inside... but they also see a lot of security.. so the avg. home becomes the target.

I agree with Mac as well, it ain't just the cape.. SE Mass for that matter.. I think it's everywhere now.

But.. I have changed... I was one of the keys in the car, don't lock the house, kinda guys .. till the early nineties.. that is when I started to feel it changing, and now everything is locked 24/7... so it is Not something NEW either.

Went to serve a warrant last week on a female that has more male hormones than some of the guys I used to play sports with. She is a nasty nasty person. I AM NOT TALJKING OUT OF CHURCH ON THIS ONE EITHER. She has dealt more drugs and beat up more upsuspecting people than you can shake a stick at. She had a kid once and D.S.S. was so afraid of her that when the child popped out the nurse turned and walked out of the room with the newborn and handed the child over to them and it was brought to another hospital and given to a couple for adoption. Guess where her mother said she was living when we went to look for her? In MASHPEE! I have to drive an hour and burn $20.00 of gas for a round trip and this dreg of society gets moved from Whitman to Maspee on us. The female called us after her her mother called her to tell this nasty person we were looking for her. What she said on the phone should have been copied off the dictaphone and run on youtube. Thier were so many MF's said by her to us it probably set a record. Said we would never find her down the cape. This person never even drove over the bridge before welfare shipped her down there. I doubt she ever heard of Cape Cod until her m other threw her out. Mashpee. Geez.