Grady,
Maybe you want to use the form's lockscreen property -
Thisform.lockscreen=.t.
Thisform.lockscreen=.f.
(if that works you can probably get away with just doing a lockscreen=.f. at the end, though setting it to .t. at the start may make it quicker)
Incidentally, you might consider using SCAN FOR rather than SCAN...IF:
Scan for localcrime1.crimedate < m.Dday
ShapeID = localcrime1.shapename
Thisform.RemoveObject(m.ShapeID)
Endscan
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
