by Flack » Sun Jun 18, 2017 8:49 pm
The cop response time there is amazing.
Susan and I were living in Washington when her car got stolen. She had locked her purse inside her car at work for ten minutes, and when she came back out to get it someone had busted out her window, stolen her purse, discovered she had a spare car key inside her purse, and stole the car, too.
I have, on many, many occasions, had interactions with the police which ended with me thinking, "huh, that's not how I thought that worked." I called the police on time when I thought the restaurant I was working at was going to get robbed and was told, "we're not personal security*." When my sister's house got broken into and we told the police who did it**, they said, "eh, ok," and put zero effort into tracking him down. This was no more evident to me than the day Susan's car was stolen. More or less they told us, "eh, it'll show up, or not."
Later that day, WE were the ones who found the car, abandoned in a local grocery store parking lot. There were footprints in the snow around the car. We thought they might take DNA samples, or fingerprints at the least. Turns out, we could barely get them to show up just to fill out the paperwork. When we got home we found half a dozen stolen purses in the trunk of her car. When we called the police to report that, they suggested we bring them by sometime, or not.
It seems like the only way crimes get solved these days is by people posting still shots or footage from their home security systems to Facebook and hoping someone recognizes then.
* After saying "so much for serve and protect" and hanging up on the 911 operator, this led to a personal visit from the local police who spent twenty minutes to me explaining in detail what their jobs did and didn't entail.
** My junkie cousin left his toolbox (with his name on it) at my sister's house after breaking in. The police went as far to say that was "suspicious." She didn't get any of her things back.
The cop response time there is amazing.
Susan and I were living in Washington when her car got stolen. She had locked her purse inside her car at work for ten minutes, and when she came back out to get it someone had busted out her window, stolen her purse, discovered she had a spare car key inside her purse, and stole the car, too.
I have, on many, many occasions, had interactions with the police which ended with me thinking, "huh, that's not how I thought that worked." I called the police on time when I thought the restaurant I was working at was going to get robbed and was told, "we're not personal security*." When my sister's house got broken into and we told the police who did it**, they said, "eh, ok," and put zero effort into tracking him down. This was no more evident to me than the day Susan's car was stolen. More or less they told us, "eh, it'll show up, or not."
Later that day, WE were the ones who found the car, abandoned in a local grocery store parking lot. There were footprints in the snow around the car. We thought they might take DNA samples, or fingerprints at the least. Turns out, we could barely get them to show up just to fill out the paperwork. When we got home we found half a dozen stolen purses in the trunk of her car. When we called the police to report that, they suggested we bring them by sometime, or not.
It seems like the only way crimes get solved these days is by people posting still shots or footage from their home security systems to Facebook and hoping someone recognizes then.
* After saying "so much for serve and protect" and hanging up on the 911 operator, this led to a personal visit from the local police who spent twenty minutes to me explaining in detail what their jobs did and didn't entail.
** My junkie cousin left his toolbox (with his name on it) at my sister's house after breaking in. The police went as far to say that was "suspicious." She didn't get any of her things back.