APD recently held their Commander's Forum. At the forum they made a presentation on the prevention of auto burglaries. For some of their slides the officers simply went to the parking lots of some shopping malls and grocery store and looked inside cars. You would be amazed at the things people leave in plain sight. They had pictures of wallets, check books, purses, laptop computers, CDs... The list was endless. Some people had gone to the trouble of putting their valuables on the floor or in the back seat, as if that makes them invisible. The moral to the story was simple: if you don't want your things stolen, don't leave them in your car. I have gone to APD's headquarters building and read an endless number of auto burglary reports. In every case, cars were broken into because valuables were left inside. If you want to keep your things, carry them with you. At a bare minimum put them in the locked trunk of your car (of course, don't park your car then put your laptop, purse, etc. in the trunk - you will just