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Someone was repeatedly breaking into my apartment lobby to steal mail. The police told me they couldn’t do anything unless I had video of it. So I caught the cr
by alxmng 4y ago
Someone was repeatedly breaking into my apartment lobby to steal mail. The police told me they couldn’t do anything unless I had video of it. So I caught the crime on video, identified them, and went to the police station with the video. They said they wouldn’t do anything because it wouldn’t be prosecuted anyway.
Oh, and they also warned me not to confront the perp or do anything myself or they might arrest me. The same person continued to steal packages, and I moved.
- chii 4y ago> because it wouldn’t be prosecuted anyway. which is weird to me - video evidence should mean a slam-dunk case is it not? So the reason it isn't going to be prosecuted is political then? Which means a failing of the system and institutions. This is an indication of a deeper problem. Moving is the individual's solution of course, but that's not a real solution for the state.
- shuckles 4y agoI could tell you a dozen similar stories about every part of the San Francisco or state bureaucracy. Does that mean they’re all over staffed and over funded? If booking a suspect takes multiple hours of work by the booking officers, I could see why the police would not want to allocate the few officers they have on any shift to that job for a mail thief.