Ice and resultant thievery being ignored as Maui issue | Maui News

HAWAII COMPUTER STOLEN Ice and resultant thievery being ignored as Maui issue | Maui News

The Maui News is full of issues like TVRs and the Superferry and presidential elections, and yet the immediate pressing problems of Maui never seem to make the print — rampanttheft on this island.

Here’s my personal tally: My car window has been bashed in while my baby sitter took it for a day hike. My purse was stolen from my car when I walked a few feet away to throw away some trash. My house was broken into for the second time in two years last month. Our door had been crowbarred off its frame. Nobody slept too well that night at my house.

Everything someone could steal was stolen — my computer, my jewelry, electronic stuff, all our tools, even two Honda motorcycles. No police detective has called me back. The patrol officers told me that this was an isolated incident, but I personally know five people whose houses have been broken into. I know several others whose cars have been stripped or otherwise vandalized.

Everybody knows it’s ice that’s the culprit, right? The cops already know the bad guys and gals, but nothing is getting done. It’s only a matter of time before those stealing will cross over to violence.

Why are we settling for a Police Department that either doesn’t care, doesn’t have the ability to fix this or is in with the thieves? Don’t you want it better, Maui? Will you join in the fight for a better life?

I’m sad, going to mad.

Molly Brooke

Haiku