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"So why did the New Irving Park break-ins get so much attention from the News & Record, but my neighborhood – where we had repeated break-ins last year got no attention whatsoever?"

That’s the question I got on a voice mail from a reader yesterday regarding this story.

The answer is simple – New Irving Park is a very vocal neighborhood.

They called us to let us know about a neighborhood watch meeting they were having about numerous break-ins earlier this month. We went.

That was followed by more phone calls from residents there telling us their stories. Then there was a news release from Greensboro police on Tuesday to notify us they had arrested a suspect.

Break-ins in Irving Park and New Irving Park isn’t anything new and unfortunately they’ve been having problems like this for years. Last year, it was one of the chief concerns residents had amid the suspicious murder of a woman inside her home on Willoughby Boulevard.

They let us know about it, we listened and we reported.

I welcome every other neighborhood in Guilford County to contact us as well as things arise. We do our best to stay on top of crime trends – but it is impossible to know everything that’s going on.

Though I know break-ins concern police, many times they become so routine that they fail to notify the media when they have a series of them targeting the same area.

We check police reports, but the information available is scarce. Our readers are our best source of information about what is going on in our community. E-mail or call me or my colleague Dioni Wise and we'll make sure to follow up with you.

This is your newspaper and we’re here to serve you.