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One moral to this story, local police are usually useless when it comes to investigating a crime. The two recent incidents I reported to the police, which inclu
by joewee 7y ago
One moral to this story, local police are usually useless when it comes to investigating a crime. The two recent incidents I reported to the police, which included a home robbery the police refused to investigate They cycled through excuses for why they didn’t have to do anything. Pretty disappointing.
- 0xcafecafe 7y agoAgreed. I had a break-in in my apartment last decade and the cop who came in just said "it happens all the time in terrace level apartments". A week later the investigating detective sent a form for me to fill and that was that. They giving me a police report to be used to file claims with insurance was the only useful thing they did. In a town hall meeting later that year the local police chief said they don't investigate burglaries unless it was a home invasion (they coming in while you are present).
- AustinCarr 7y agoDespite our multiple inquiries with the Kent/Hertfordshire police in the UK, it's still unclear whether they fully investigated arguably the most significant lead in the theft: a suspicious man named "Jamie" who attempted to sell similar-looking model locomotives to a train shop ~62 miles away, just hours after the robbery was discovered...Jamie took off in a rush after the shop's owner asked for paperwork on the trains. The Kent police say they passed the lead onto Hertfordshire; the Hertfordshire police told me they have no record of the incident.
- olivermarks 7y agoHertfordshire police - absolutely pathetic...
- EdwardDiego 7y ago> local police are usually useless when it comes to investigating a crime. The two recent incidents Huge claim to make on a sample size of 2.
- girvo 7y agoWell I can back it up here in Australia, too. My car had its wheels stolen while I was asleep. The cops did nothing other than give me a number for the insurance company (despite the wheels being worth $4000 total). Funnily, I got them back a few months later. $1.5 million in car parts was found at a warehouse and the thieves were arrested — so I guess it’s not all bad news. My wheels were incidental to the police however.
- joewee 7y agoAnd also based in the experiences of many others that have been shared with me. As can be seen in this story and the other comments on this thread.