More shocking news from Register about Burglars

The Des Moines Register wrote their 2nd story in a week about burglars in Des Moines. Last week, they broke the news that burglars will cut screens to get into houses. Now they tell us that burglars will go through windows if they can't get in the door.

Burglars pried on the door, they pried on the door jam, they kicked the door and left muddy shoe prints on it. Police found a broken screw driver head next to it. The door remained shut.

In the end, however, the intruders came in through a kitchen window of the house.

Shouldn't the Register have written the story about burglars going through windows first? I mean the screens are in the windows. If burglars cut the screen they are obviously going to go through the window to get into the house. And why did this issue seem so newsworthy that it deserved two articles? The article today even mentioned that burglaries were down.

Burglaries were down slightly last month, with 135 house prowls reported in Des Moines. That compares with 142 residential burglaries during June 2005.