I live across from the post office on Northcross. I've only been at this place a couple months, but I guess there was a big homeless camp behind it that the police would occasionally go back there and tell them to scatter. When the ordinance passed, the post office had to close the lobby outside of business hours because the homeless were sleeping, cooking, crapping, in there. Didn't affect me, but it would kind of suck if you had a PO box and had to time getting your mail during their open hours. Not to mention if you were the employee that had to open the office.
My bike has been locked up to the railing outside of my condo since I've been there. A lot of people do it because the places are small so nobody wants the thing inside their place and there aren't garages, plus it's lit pretty well at night. Sumbitches cut the lock last night. It's an older Cannondale MTB that I paid a couple hundred bucks for a few years ago used, so the value isn't a kick in the nuts, but the principle always is when someone fucks with your stuff.
I went and walked around back there today on the off chance that someone was dumb enough to take it back there where they lived, but no luck. I'm not saying it was a homeless person from there and I'm not taking a side on this ordinance, on here at least, but I'm also not naive enough to think the timing isn't a little fishy and that all those people are hanging out back there trying to solve all the problems of the world, either.
Is there any reason to file a report for this? Not for the chance that it will get recovered, but to maybe let the cops know and they might patrol the area a little closer, or is that a laughable thought? The complex has a specific cop that is supposed to be contacted directly about this stuff, but I don't want some cop knocking on my door to fill out paperwork. I mean, what if he sees some weed and shoots me?