Sorry to hear about your daughter. She’s lucky that it was only her “goods” and not her person.
I know from my 10 years living in Southwest Suburban Houston and working as a local reporter and newspaper editor that crime is so rampant that it barely gets reported. My little paper covered 3 small communities and our most popular feature was our crime column. In fact, it made the owner of the paper a wealthy woman.
I had to go each week and copy down everything on the police blotter from 3 communities. I insisted on publishing everything because to be selective could produce charges of bias and discrimination. Most of the PDs were cooperative, except for Sugarland. They didn’t want anything published.
In Houston, however, even dead bodies found in dumpsters didn’t make the news. Pearland, as I remember, was a mixed community. Lots of blue collar workers from the refineries there. Your neice should get a burglar alarm installed and keep it armed at all times. It is doubtful that she will ever see her belongings again.
Collecting the crime news every week (even in our small, relatively safe community) made my husband’s transfer to the Seattle are really easy to accept.
Of course, we were never burglarized when we lived in TX, and we were in both Washington State and Wisconsin — go figure.
This was my niece not my daughter. Were it my daughter, i would insist that she move to a safer area!