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Hi there. My name is Vivek B, and as I’m writing this guest post since VS is taking the week off but we still need our fix. First, a quick few sentences about who I am. I’m just a regular citizen who works in a totally unrelated field, and has lived in Rockridge for about 7 years. I got heavily involved in home security a few years ago when we had a big crime wave in 2006. We had a ton of armed robberies within 1-2 blocks of my house, so I taught myself how to replace & beef up my security system, and put in a security camera network. That helped a little, but I wanted to know how I should feel about whether crime was getting better or worse. I started monitoring the weekly OPD stats that are published. A year ago, I realized that although I knew what the weekly numbers were, I didn’t know whether to feel good or bad. Is 10 stolen cars in a month really bad? Is it good? How does this compare to how it was a few years ago?