Manhattan Beach police to residents: ‘Lock it’
Lt. Christian Eichenlaub (far right) moderates the MBPD Town Hall Meeting at the Joslyn Community Center Monday night. Photo A few years ago, Manhattan Beach police arrested a San Bernardino man on two separate occasions for burglary. When officers asked him why he’d bother to travel all the way to Manhattan Beach to commit his crimes, he had a simple answer. “He said, ‘Because you lock nothing,’” Chief of Police Eve Irvine recalled. “‘You leave everything open. It’s like the Manhattan Beach buffet.’” The “Lock It Or Lose It” campaign was one of the talking points at the MBPD Town Hall Meeting Monday night at the Joslyn Community Center. A panel of police personnel, with representatives from patrol and the detective bureaus, presented crime trends from the previous year and advised the group of about 50 residents on crime prevention. The Manhattan Beach community is often “lulled into a false sense of security” due to its low crime rates, prompting residents to become overconfident, explained Chief Irvine. Last year, 92 percent of vehicle-related burglaries could have been prevented: about 54 percent of those thefts involved unlocked or open doors, and 38 percent involved…
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