Police allow car break-ins to become a Seattle growth industry
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Police allow car break-ins to become a Seattle growth industry
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#2Again, the police are never there to help you.
Re: Police allow car break-ins to become a Seattle growth industry
#3This is the flip side of the new powers granted to police under laws such as the Patriot Act. Yes, they have more power than ever before to spy on you. No, they won't arrest criminals, even after you have tracked down the criminals yourself. The government needs expanded powers so it can spy on you, not the criminals. Certain classes of criminals are high profile (drug dealers!) and there is a certain prestige in getting them, so the government is happy to go after them. But if we are talking about ordinary criminals, then the government can't be bothered.
This is the flip side of increasing police powers: the police are increasingly immune to criticism, so they are increasingly lazy about going after the kinds of criminals that ordinary people actually care about.
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#4I don't understand this story. Why wouldn't the police do anything? If I'm an officer who's motivated by helping others, it's a clear way to do that. If I'm motivated by a desire for justice, easy way to promote that. If I'm motivated by power, I can go take down the thieves and bring them down a notch.
Perhaps one explanation is that the police get enough zany people calling in about enough zany things that they don't take any info from ordinary people seriously because it's that unreliable. But not sure if I even buy this explanation myself.
Anybody with good knowledge of police workings have insight into why things happen like they do in the linked article?
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#6I don't understand this story. Why wouldn't the police do anything? If I'm an officer who's motivated by helping others, it's a clear way to do that. If I'm motivated by a desire for justice, easy way to promote that. If I'm motivated by power, I can go take down the thieves and bring them down a notch. Perhaps one explanation is that the police get enough zany people calling in about enough zany things that they don…
Most police are motivated by none of these things. Policing is a job. Depending on how career-oriented they are, they want to be promoted or they want not to be fired. And chasing down petty criminals that they probably don't have enough evidence to charge is not helping their stats, which is all that matters in either case.
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#7I don't understand this story. Why wouldn't the police do anything? If I'm an officer who's motivated by helping others, it's a clear way to do that. If I'm motivated by a desire for justice, easy way to promote that. If I'm motivated by power, I can go take down the thieves and bring them down a notch. Perhaps one explanation is that the police get enough zany people calling in about enough zany things that they don…
I have a friend who works in the records department of the San Mateo shariff's office. She's on the graveyard shift, which is slow, and they're constantly getting crazy calls about all manner of things.
It wouldn't surprise me if there were policies or protocols around when reported information is considered actionable considering all the silly stories I've heard about loonies calling the local PD.
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#9You can try to forward links to this article to all the current + future politicians that is running in that area - anyone that is running for City, County, State, Congress - CC a few the reporters in the area and asked for statements from them on see what their responses, CC the head of police in the mailing list also and CC dispatcher's name / email if possible.
From time to time, post their responses on some public forums.
My mom has accident in Sacramento downtown uneven sidewalk once, bruise pretty badly. Her doctor take care of her. I just email the city manager + couple elective officials 's public email addresses. I got 10+ follow up emails from various folks in couple day and the issue was fixed in a few days.
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#10I don't understand this story. Why wouldn't the police do anything? If I'm an officer who's motivated by helping others, it's a clear way to do that. If I'm motivated by a desire for justice, easy way to promote that. If I'm motivated by power, I can go take down the thieves and bring them down a notch. Perhaps one explanation is that the police get enough zany people calling in about enough zany things that they don…
I have a friend who works in the records department of the San Mateo shariff's office. She's on the graveyard shift, which is slow , and they're constantly getting crazy calls about all manner of things. It wouldn't surprise me if there were policies or protocols around when reported information is considered actionable considering all the silly stories I've heard about loonies calling the local PD.
I'm sure they do, but is "my iPhone was stolen, and the GPS tracker says it's at X" still a crazy call by a loonie in 2014?