Guest columnists Tom Wetzel, a Certified Law Enforcement Executive, and Denise DeBiase have over 60 years of combined police experience.

As this is our last article co-written together, we wanted to find something that really hits home in our local communities.

One of the things that has plagued Northeast Ohio policing over the last 30 years -- and especially right now -- is vehicles being broken into.

More likely than not, you or someone you know has had this happen to them.

It seems like it’s an unavoidable crime. For years, we came to know this as a crime of opportunity, because people used to leave their car doors unlocked.

Nowadays, it has become a brazen crime to smash windows of locked vehicles and take what they can in seconds.

This type of crime doesn’t just steal personal p

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