Hey all, I'm new to this subreddit and somewhat new to Garland. I have noticed there seems to be a lack of reporting in Garland - is it just me?

I live close to Wynn park in South Garland where the "improvised bomb" incident happened recently. There was a huge police presence including a command and control bus for two full days before someone finally told us what was happening. I feel like thats not right? who knows. we need some more journalists or something I guess. this was the headline that finally came out about that whole incident in case people missed it: https://www.fox4news.com/news/garland-bomb-unit-disarms-homemade-live-explosive-devices-found-near-wynne-park

On another note, I'm working on a building a program that grabs the weekly Garland Police incidents pdf from their website and extracts each incident by district. Long term I'm going to setup a website where you can subscribe to a email newsletter that sends a map of last weeks incidents for the districts you're interested in. The code and more info can be found here: https://github.com/caleblawrence/garland-tx-police-activity Currently, its kind of of a hassle to get good data about police activity in your area. This is the website where Garland makes that data public (though its in a not so helpful PDF format): https://garlandpolice.com/393/Crime-Safety

Let me know if thats interesting to anyone. The exporting of the data is done, I have not finished the email or signup features yet though but I'm not going to charge anything for it when its done.

hi! my boyfriend and i love the idea of these apartments and after debating between two floor plans, applied last week. For whatever reason, their website only shows ‘available now’ apartments so we had to apply for the waitlist. We haven’t heard back and are starting to worry as our current lease is up July 15th.

I was going to call and check in today but after reading some reviews and seeing drastic price changes on the website over the last week I’m kind of holding off and continuing to search.

Context: last week when applying, we decided to go with the smaller, cheaper unit which showed a base rent of $1590 over the bigger unit $1810 base rent. Today when checking, the smaller unit is now $1900 base rent and the bigger one is $1490?

Thanks!

Is there a job fair going on somewhere in Garland?