LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — This week, Little Rock police said they're increasing patrols in the Walnut Valley neighborhood after multiple reports of break-ins.
Now, residents hope more can be done to protect their homes as they rebuild their neighborhood after an EF-3 tornado tore through last March.
Jenny Bishop had moved in just a few months before the storm, but decided to spend the last year working to rebuild.
"Every time I would go over the hill on Shackleford, I just kind of felt anxious," Bishop said. "Hard to take in every time... all the damage."
But her long-awaited return isn't what she planned it to be, as just in the last week, Bishop has seen people attempt to break in through her back door and her cars, one of which, admittedly, was left unlocked.
"The police has told us that it's typically more the construction sites that they tend to do that too because they don't think anyone's home," Bishop said. "They took my purse, backpack and work cell phone out of my car, and within one minute they were gone."
All of this is happening even with visible security cameras and bright lights.
"We have 16 cameras on the porch here," Bishop said.
Additionally, Bishop said a third break-in targeted one of the painters working on her home.
"[Our cameras] saw our painter coming around this corner here at the same time as they were actually breaking into his vehicle out there," Bishop said. "Just a few feet away."
And it's not just Bishop; the neighborhood as a whole is now pushing for more to be done and asking the police for more patrols.
"We just have to hope that our neighbors are keeping an eye out," Bishop said. "That the police will continue patrolling."
After waiting more than a year to return to Walnut Valley, she hopes suspects will be caught before the moving trucks arrive.
"We just want our neighborhood back," Bishop said. "We just want to want it to be safe, and we want our kids to feel like we're okay as well."
Any suspicious activity or break-ins can be reported to the Little Rock Police Department at (501) 371-4829.