If guilty, they might have been smarter to move beyond the view from the window.

When a  28-year-old woman heard someone in her bedroom on 22nd Street between Capp and South Van Ness on Tuesday at noon, she went to check what was going on.

She immediately noticed that a lot of  jewelry, nail polish, makeup, bags and other  items were missing.

She looked outside.  Two kids  – one 16-years-old and one 13-years-old – were looking through much of what had been taken.  It is possible someone else dropped it in their laps. The victim knew the kids.

She called police and the two were arrested and handed over to juvenile authorities.

Crime is trauma and the county offers different services. Here is a link to a page of services.

Victims of violent crime can also contact the Trauma Recovery Center at UCSF.

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I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.

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