This Is A Glock Block Frustrated Homeowners All Over America Are Taking Matters Into Their Own HandsMichael Snyder For example, one community group in Milwaukie, Oregon has started posting flyers with an ominous message for potential criminals: This is a Glock block. We dont call 911. You can see a photo of this flyer right here. One of the founders of the Glock Block is a breast cancer survivor named Coy Tolonen. She decided to arm herself after a thief stole one of her favorite statues out of her front yard while she was watching In some wealthier neighborhoods around the country, citizens are pooling their resources and are hiring private security firms to ward off criminals. Just check out what is happeningin Oakland According to Steve Amitay, the executive director of the National Association of Security Companies, this is also happening in other high crime cities such as Atlanta and Detroit. In fact, it is being projected that the private cop business is going to absolutely boom in the years ahead. But not everyone can afford to hire private cops. Those with more limited resources are trying to cope with rising crime any way that they can. In Chicago, firefighters are actually being enlisted to provide security for public school studentswalking to and from school Sadly, this is just the beginning. As the U.S. economy continues to get even worse, so will crime, gang activity and social decay. But that doesnt mean that everyone will be bad. The truth is that there are still some decent people out there. Today, someone sent me a story about human decency that made me smile. In Laguna Niguel, California a man accidentally sold a wooden watch box for $10 that contained his wifes $23,000 wedding ring. When his wife found out about it, she wasabsolutely crushed Fortunately, the box had ended up with a very honest couple So that story had a very happy ending. There are still people out there that are ready and willing to do the right thing. But not everyone is that way. It has been said that desperate people do desperate things, and when the next major wave of the economic collapse strikes there are going to be millions of very desperate people out there on the streets of America. Now is the time to get prepared for that. This article first appeared here at the Economic Collapse Blog. Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here. 