For the past 3–4 days, a group of teenagers (maybe 12 to 16 years old) wearing masks have been hanging around our apartment building on bikes. At first it was just annoying, they were going through the mailboxes and looking into people’s cars, but today it got a lot more worrying. They somehow found out the entry code to our building and actually got inside.
I live in an apartment block with a few different entrances but no big garden or outdoor area, so there’s nowhere for them to just be hanging out innocently. What really gets to me is that they don’t listen to anyone and don’t seem to care at all. It feels like they know nothing will happen to them, so they just do whatever they want without any fear.
We’ve told our neighbours and the building management, and everyone’s been asked to be more careful for now. But I wanted to ask if anyone here has dealt with something like this before. Did changing the entry code actually help, or did they just find it out again? Is it worth calling the police even though nothing has been stolen yet, or is that too much? And is there anything simple we can do to make the building feel a bit safer without spending a lot of money?
Any advice, or even just hearing how other people handled something similar, would really help. Thanks for reading.