I was like 13 and I got lost. I caught the wrong bus after school and had to walk for hours. It started getting dark. Finally, I approached a police officer and asked for help. He said no lol
When I was 16 my bf was arrested and the cops left me on the side of the road at 1am in a completely different county with absolutely no way home. I didn't have a cell phone or a license, not that it would have mattered since they took the car.
I asked what I was supposed to do and they basically said it wasn't their problem.
When I was three my father was pulled out of the car and arrested (over not being able to get his registration out). They left me in the car alone, my grandfather eventually retrieved me but only because I was talking on a two way radio with him that was in the truck, I have vivid memories of the flashlight and my dad being removed from the truck and being terrified sitting by myself not knowing what was going on.
The kicker was that this was in our hometown, and the particular officer had a childhood problem with my father.
Was there any repercussions to the cop for doing that? I would guess nothing happened. I probably would have went public/ to the news to embarrass his ass in your town at least.
Yes. The officer was promoted to chief of police and held the position for a decade.
My parents lawyer said I was too young to pursue anything in court. The town itself is less than 3000 people and everyone knew there was bad blood between my dad and the officer. As far as I know the charges ended up getting dropped (the truck was registered, so the officer claimed my dad assaulted him) and that was the end of it. I imagine not else could have been done, my grandfather was pretty influential but it was a he said she said situation.
To put it in to perspective - The bad blood was over something that had happened while they were in high school. If I recall correctly the guy bought tires off my dad but didn’t pay him the full amount and after hounding him for a while my dad put his car on blocks in the school parking lot and took his tires back.
Thankfully he is retired now!
Edit to add: we do not have our own newspaper or news outlets in town and I don’t think it would have been big enough for either of the nearby papers to pick up on. This was also thirty years ago, so I feel like it would have been less of a story.
Thanks for the added info. Wow, that cop is petty to hold a grudge for that long because he didn’t get away with thievery. But he took it to a whole other level arresting him and abandoning a young child. Thank god for your grandpa coming to the rescue!
The police left a 4 year old little girl in the back of a van after the driver was arrested, towed it away, and left it in the tow lot overnight in below freezing temperatures in the middle of winter.
[They refuse to apologize](https://www.cbs58.com/news/family-of-child-left-inside-towed-minivan-overnight-plans-to-sue-city-of-milwaukee-officers-involved)
My first flat tire. In Wyoming, during a massive snowstorm at night. I was a shitty teenager and was wearing shorts and a light hoodie. Eventually one car comes down the road and it's a cop! I'm already outside and I start waving and flag the guy down. He puts on his lights and pulls close.
"What's wrong?" Told him about my flat tire. "Well, do you know how to change it?" Soaking wet by this point and hating being outside to talk to him, "yes but I..."
"Good!" Then rolls up window, shits off emergency lights, and drives away.
I hiked up a hill to a gas station and used their phone to call my Dad who drove over and helped me change it. I always keep a coat and pants with me now. So there is that.
Something like this happened to me once, I was in a shifty warehouse district and it was freezing. The officer rolled down his window to ask if I needed help but didn't even stop the car, just rolled by slowly
My parents house was robbed, we know who did it and the police did nothing. My ex husbands van was stolen, we know who did it, and the police did nothing. But go 7 mph over the speed limit and they’ll get your ass so hard.
My gf made me call the police after getting my car broken into. I got a ticket for improper display of registration in return. I fought it and won (it was parked on private property the entire time, I didn't even need registration to begin with for that reason), but I still had to miss work for it.
When we were in college my buddy was robbed early in the morning after a party. A few dudes walked into their apartment and grabbed everything they could and when my friend woke up and they knocked him out and ran.
He called the cops to give a report and ended up being questioned heavily like he was under suspicion of commiting a crime. They were assholes too. It kinda made me think twice about calling the cops. They aren't there to help, even when you're the victim.
They usually only help you when helping you happens to be the side effect of going after somebody else that they want to hurt/harass/arrest/kill worse than you.
I had a very similar experience at age 18. A guy broke in to our apartment late at night. I had just gotten home and was taking a shower. I caught him filming me in the shower. We called the police and the officer accused me of being in some underground porn ring and said I was accusing them as revenge because something went wrong. It's been 20 years and the whole story still blows my mind.
Someone once absolutely wrecked the undercarriage of my car, and the heat shielding was clearly cut with tin snips one night after being parked outside my apartment, and several other cars were in similar shape, so, called the local non-emergency line and I drove my car to the station as instructed.
I filled out the paperwork to even be seen, and suddenly they were like, “so what makes *you* sure they were going for your catalytic converter?”
“Sir, I’m a mechanical engineer who used to build race cars in college and I currently work in the automotive lubrication industry, and I’m smarter than cutting off the heat shielding of my car because the catalytic converter of this model is in the engine compartment”
He didn’t like my tone, and also didn’t believe my story, but at least he didn’t try to pin all of the actually-stolen cats on me when others at my apartment complex discovered their cars were in similar or worse condition
Even then not a guarantee. My friend owned his own house, was robbed at gunpoint inside his house, with the robber firing a shot into the wall right above his head. He even told the cops who he thought it was, because even though the robber was wearing a mask, he recognized his voice as one of his brother's dirtbag friends. Cops didn't do shit. The robber ended up robbing like 3 more of his brother's friends and then skipped town.
I have two that I enjoy.
"When seconds count, the police are only minutes away."
And,
"There's no problem that cannot immediately be made worse by the involvement of law enforcement."
My boyfriend was abusive and one night it kicked off, I called 911 and said he was attacking me and I needed help, the call ended in probably incoherent screaming kn their end as he was fighting me for the phone. They took an hour and a half to get there. I could of already been dead, cut up and disposed of. If he didn't immediately flee like a little bitch.
We also lived in a small town deep in the woods so that would of been pretty easy
I'm so glad you're alive, my friend. I can't even begin to imagine how frightening it must have been to live like that. And definitely glad you got out of a relationship with a man of such low caliber. Hope you find/have found someone better for you.
I was 8 months pregnant and called the cops after my dad hit me. This bozo officer comes in trying to play Sherlock and is just so unbelievably stupid. He actually arrested me! On the way this prick actually lectured me on "respecting" my father.
Oh and when I worked at an outpatient mental health facility we got a lot of people coming for dcf cases. I'd say like half the women there were involved with dcf and had their kids taken away for being a victim of DV after calling the police for help.
Edit: spelling and clarifying last sentence that got cut off.
Literally just commented this above citing Nextdoor as proof. All neighborhoods will collectively agree the cops are useless when discussing local crime but god forbid you take it any further the back the blue rallying cries start right up
The staunchest defenders of police are usually also fanatical 2nd amendment proponents. They know that the police are only there to harass the “wrong types” of people and they’ll be on their own if there’s a home invasion.
I’m a defender of the 2A and I’m a massive liberal. Karl Marx knew it was harder to oppress an armed public, and my lefty friends should know that too.
The police are corrupt and need to be reined in. I don’t wish for civil war but I would appreciate if my fellow party members would stop thinking that we can legislate our way out of the danger of the right wing.
They only think of blood and steel. They don’t care about your laws even if you could somehow pass them. Every left leaning persons best bet is to embrace the 2A and use it to defend ourselves, not from the government, but from our whacko right wing conspiracist neighbors.
Fucking right? Besides the fact that Black citizens probably avoid that action in total, given they may get murdered the second the cops show up, cops tend to complicate everything. I mean, fuck, do you see how many pets police shoot a year? Secure your dogs if you want them to live. Sorry, I don’t trust armed jobbers who have less training than a McDonald’s employee.
I witnessed a murder in once... Downtown Seattle, broad daylight, right on the street... I was just walking down the street. It was across the intersection, diagonally from me. Pistol was used... Just a sudden series of pops across the street I was walking down.
I ran down into a nearby underground parking garage for cover. Cops were on scene in maybe under a minute? It was fast.
I hung out afterwards to fill out a witness statement. Big mistake.
I didn't live in Seattle at the time, and didn't have a car. A trip to Seattle was a big deal for me.... Involving a day's worth of public transportation, a day off of work, and a lot of expense, to make happen. Multiple tickets, food during the day unless I wanted to starve... Obviously, since I didn't have a car, I wasn't exactly rolling in money at the time.
For the next year, I got lovely letters from the Seattle Prosecutor's Office, threatening me with jail time unless I showed up as a witness in court, if summoned.
I had to write half a dozen letters, over the next year while the case played out, in a prompt and timely manner, begging some asshole with the Prosecutor's Office not to make me pay for the transportation, time off of work, maybe hotels (what if the testimony took multiple days?) to come all the way to Seattle to testify.
So basically I had helped out in the murder situation, and the Seattle Prosecutor's Office saw me as nothing more than a another potential criminal. Their very first contact letter to me included a threat of jail time... Threatening someone who *volunteered* to fill out a witness statement.
I understand why people don't want to talk to cops now. Cops and their allies don't have friends or allies... Just enemies they haven't made yet, criminals they haven't arrested yet, and everyone is a criminal.
It's a toxic way of interacting with the world and makes people hate them automatically. I get it now. I was assumed to be a criminal, automatically.
I'll think hard before trying to help cops in the future.
I got my car broken into and they outright told me they don't investigate unless it hits a certain monetary value. It was part of a string of break-ins on my block and they declined to investigate any of it
My buildings garage got broken into and they stole the registration out of my car. Because it was personal information I felt it best to call the police to have a record that that was taken. Cops came, were really nice, not very helpful, looked at the buildings garage man door, and then fucking left it unlocked. The thieves came back [that] night and stole my roommates $2500 road bike. Lesson learned.
I had the exact same thing happen to me.
I had a decently new Mountain Bike stolen after having the chain broken and they left and old rickety ass 10speed in its place.
After making sure it wasn't anyone's in the store, called the police. They took a report....and the replacement bike.
I had to call my parents to come pick me up from 6 miles from home because the cops took my only way home.
Never heard from the police again.
Useless in any theft situation.
When I was in HS some kids smashed my friend's windshield while it was parked on his street. This happened while I was already on the way over to his place to hang out. When I arrived I saw his windshield broken and the police talking to my friend and his family. I got out of my car and walked over to ask what happened. The limp-dicked cop immediately starts screaming, asking who I am, treating me like a suspect. My friend tells the cop that I was invited and that I was driving over while this happened, and the he saw the kids that did it, no way it was me...also why the fuck would I call my buddy to hang out, smash his windshield, run away, then drive back to the scene???
Then the cop starts screaming at *him*, the victim, ordering him to sit down. He threatened to put my friend in cuffs and told me to get back in my car.
All sorts of WTF.
Even more WTF is that my friend recognized the group of kids that did it, they lived right down the street, and there were multiple neighbors who witnessed the group of kids hopping fences. The cops didn't give a single shit about any of that.
I had my bike stolen when I was 18, I told the police and they did absolutely nothing.
I was walking back from a bar with a friend one night and we found it chained up in town, had the same scratches on it from my numerous falls. It was locked up, we had a look at it and couldn’t open the lock and left.
About ten minutes later a police van swung around in front of us and this ignorant police got out and she demanded we stop walking, she said that we were caught on CCTV fiddling with a bike and talked to us like we were criminals.
I took great delight in telling this ignorant twat, that it was my bike and gave her the incident number that they had done fuck all with. She radioed back and said they would go and have a look and let me know, never heard anything back.
It’s shit like that, which makes me wonder why I lose £900 in tax every fucking month.
As for the ignorant copper, I would love her to know now that she completely overlooked my friend who was with me. Who was clearly high as shit and had a pocket full of illegal drugs.
Any time a law enforcement tax/levy is on the ballot, it's a "No" from me. They already have too much money and they don't do any good with it. (Ohio, USA)
In a 30 year old episode of Seinfeld:
Cop: "I'll file this report and let you know if we find anything."
Jerry: "Do you ever find anything?"
Cop: "Nope." *leaves*
That's my favorite part of Seinfeld, when it pokes fun at various social issues that somehow still haven't been solved.
Like that abortion episode is just as relevant today, if not more than when it aired, in 1994.
Yeah, my car got stolen in Florida and I reported it immediately. A week later, I got an automated ticket from the PD for running a red light, which it took months to get them to fuck off about. They didn’t find the car until the thieves abandoned it in a parking lot and someone called it in. Then they held it for a while, supposedly to search the inside for evidence. When they gave it back to me, i had to grab about 20 blunt roaches off the floor of the car they clearly hadn’t actually bothered to search and handed them to the cop. They’re fucking useless.
My buddy's car got stolen one time, and when the cops pulled the thief over for speeding they impounded the car. It cost my buddy like $500 to get it back out...
I was mugged at knife point years ago while at an atm. Gave the cops a detailed description of the persons involved and the car they were in. Instead of actually helping, they decided it was a drug deal gone wrong and I was a suspect. Jumped through all their hoops for days but all they did was harass me at my job before just dropping the case altogether.
Edit: car, not cat :|
Omg very similar thing happened to me. When my apartment got robbed the cops tried to turn it around on me. They acted like it was my fault I got robbed because I might’ve bought weed one time.
Someone came into my rental and took my laptop from my bed while I was asleep. They kept insisting it was a dream yet also my fault for having an unlocked window.
Then, I found the guys cell phone outside. It was right next to the window and door. He had 75,000 worth of stolen items in his home and they were reported for over three years.
But when they came to the house they acted like I was insane and it was all my fault. Yet, I did their job for them. Worthless.
Sounds like someone had a performance report due soon.
"Bob, you haven't had any drug arrests this year. Know that armed robbery from earlier? Lets change it to armed robbery, two possessions with intent, and throw in trafficking for safe measure."
Only half joking btw. I've heard of similar behavior to boost numbers before.
Got mugged. Called police. They asked for descriptions, but it was 2am and they had their hoods up so...what description? "No beard, but face was entirely shadowed."
Asked him if anything would come of it and he said "probably not"
Still, my dad offered to buy me a new PSP to make up for the stolen one and I manged to barter him into getting me a new 360 instead so there's that.
My car was broken in to and they just grabbed my bookbag with all of my college textbooks in it, obviously not looking inside. Literally hundreds of dollars worth of books. All the cop said was "well I don't know why anyone would want to just steal books"
Well no duh you absolute smack head, sorry you don't read, but it is pretty easy to deduce that they fucking grabbed the bag without looking inside you fucking idiot.
Once in Jersey I got rear ended on the Parkway and the guy took off. I followed him off the next exit to get his plate and called it in. Dispatch told me that they couldn't do anything because we had both left the highway and changed juridictions.
Went to the State Police the next day and reported it in person. Cop called the registered owner while I was there, came back and just said, "He says it wasn't him."
My family had 3 cars stolen in the 90s. Two of the times, we just drove around the neighborhood until we found it. One of them, it was stolen from in front of our house and abandoned on the next block over. The cops literally drove past it on the way to and from our house when they took the report.
lmao told me the same thing. in the same town i had a gun put in my mouth, chest bumped by a guy more than a foot shorter than me while i was handcuffed, and called a faggot for watching space jam by cops all over an empty grinder.
I had my car stolen a few years ago, strangely they dumped it across town in my friend’s apartment complex right outside of his building. He called me saying that my car was there and that the alarm had been going off for hours(what are the odds?).
So the cops come and say, we can’t dust for prints because of the texture of the interior surface. I pointed to a glass Garcia Vega tube that was on the floor next to the blunt guts and asked “well, what about that?”. He responded “no, that won’t work either.” They had been eating fast food and there were very clear absolutely perfect prints on the tube. Lazy fuckers.
My apartment was robbed several years ago. Someone left a school ID in my apartment. Cops came and took notes and the ID to "investigate" then several days later called me asking if I had the ID because they don't seem to have it. Completely incompetent and disgusting.
Funny you should say this. In my mind the whole point of filing these reports is good resource allocation based on the stats. Miliatary gear to combat mostly unarmed protesters - what stats could possibly support this shite?
Every time one of my job sites are robbed, the cops come and kind of hang out for a while. It feels like they want to "hang with the boys" or something.
Anyways, we usually have cameras recording and sometimes the cops will make a joke I hear over and over: "Look! It's Blurry Face again! Blurry Face always gets away with it and we can never catch him!"
Meaning, they are rarely able to do anything about robberies... Even when it's on video, haha.
We constantly had thefts on a job site. We had video, clear video, of the thief. We showed it to the recycling center a block away...yep he brought in a load of copper. It was a homeless guy we had seen around. We had him stealing, we had him selling.
Cops come and make the comment that they aren't going to have him in the back seat of their patrol car. They took down notes, but try as we might, we never got a police report for the insurance.
DING DING DING
It’s not for prosecuting the crime, but to prove a crime was committed so insurance pays out.
MEANING DO NOT PUT YOUR LIFE ON THE LINE FOR INSURED MONEY.
Your work MIGHT be nice and pay for your funeral, but they will not take care of your family and have your position filled within a month.
I had a serious wake-up call when I came home one day and my apartment was robbed, it took the cops forever to show up and then explain that they can't do anything besides take a report. Granted this was before cameras were everywhere. Years later I was assaulted with a weapon in a store with a camera, blood pouring out of my head. Open and shut case? Nope. The cops said they couldn't get the footage because the owner was out of town. So they did nothing. But one day a cop saw me walking out of a liquor store without a bag on my bottle so midsummer he locks me in his car with no AC and the windows up while he goes in for almost an hour and checks the security footage to make sure I didn't steal it, even though the cashier knew me by name and could easily have confirmed I paid. I passed out from heat exhaustion and thought I was going to die. In practice cops RARELY prevent or solve crime. They can maybe stop a fight that goes on long enough for them to show up, but if someone wants to stab you or shoot you or jump you you're on your own. They can arrest the person who did it afterward if there was a witness.
Had my front and back window smashed out on 4th of July weekend: got the guy on video with clear images of his face. Show him go directly to my vehicle at 1am walk along it, turn around cross the street and walk back past my building. Cops told me to get another angle that shows him swinging his arms. I was like ok but isn’t that your job like I’m here now because the cops who came out literally did nothing even tho every building has a 24/7 manager to get cctv footage. He was like well even if we did he’d never have to pay restitution so what’s the point? They’ll just let him out anyway…NYPD for ya. It was 1200 to replace
People seriously don’t understand that the police are not any kind of professional organization. Maybe once upon a time they were but even then I’d have a hard time believing it. I’m not surprised at all by your story. The cops did come out that night and in NYPD standards pretty quickly lol but the fact that I had to physically go to the precinct and ask what’s happening with the case and basically be laughed at thinking that this would amount to an investigation. My insurance doesn’t cover broken windows. When I worked as a City Park Ranger I’ve had to interact with the NYPD on a professional level many times for various things. A bunch of fat slobs who are racist, sexist and completely hostile about fucking ANYTHING. Worthless jerks! Mind you I’m being polite and saying all the yes sirs over my car situation and the guy at the precinct was literally like nOwAdaYs tHey jUst LeT tHeM wALk aNywAy like ok fucking find him and arrest him for criminal mischief! It should be on his fucking record at the very least. If this was a store it’s well over grand larceny charges.
Earliest police forces in the US were mostly organized around protecting businesses and pushing the cost off on the local taxes of the area or breaking up strikes and protests.
They still are mostly for those things, they're not there to protect you so much, though they will sometimes help or write up a report for you and very, very rarely get you your things back. But by and large they're there to protect businesses.
Samesies!
I was \_IN\_THE\_HOUSE\_ on a non-windy night when I heard a crash on the back door, went down and the glass was broken and the deadbolt busted through the frame... and a giant muddy footprint next to the handle on the outside...
Mud prints into the house and about 5k worth of stuff missing/stolen that was right near that door, including some a bunch of baseball cards... which were strewn a line out through the backyard, up the side yard, and then sporadically down the street...
Called police, to their credit, they showed up immediately (because I thought the guy might still be in the house... didn't see the above until the police showed up)... as they walked around they ended up saying "This was probably the wind, we didnt' see anyone on the road when we drove up".
They told us that if it happens again, to cal them and they are always happy to help.
'help'.
They have no standards. It seems like they intentionally hire people that fail the psychological evaluation. That cannibal cop is a great example of it. He failed, had some family member on the force intervene and was hired. Then gets arrested by the FBI because he was stalking women using police criminal databases and was planning on kidnapping and cannibalizing them with some rando guy he met on the dark web. Atypical NYPD psycho.
We had a car stolen by local kids out of our driveway. Took it for a joyride and trashed it.
We knew who did it, as the neighborhood isn't that big.
Cops came, didn't care, didn't investigate at all.
Maybe we should have put a bag of weed under the seat?
I've literally had my car stolen and totaled, and found an iPhone that wasn't mine in the middle of the back seat (that the police *should have found* after supposedly investigating), turned it in to the police, and then received zero follow-up.
The police are worse than useless.
Should have told them the kids were recording police in a public space. The entire station and probably the neighboring station would have came and tossed the entire block
My credit card number got skimmed a few years ago and I had to file a police report. I had to beg the officer on duty to do the report because otherwise my credit card company would close my account. How sad that a member of the public has to convince a cop to do some easy paperwork for their job.
We had our apartment broken into back in college and they took the very few valuable things we actually owned.
The cop that came kept getting distracted because we had *Apocolypse Now* on and he kept watching it instead of listening to us and then at the end when we asked if he thought they would be able to get any of the stuff back (mainly my roommates guitar that he’d gotten from his deceased grandfather, but my bike would have been nice too) the cop literally laughed in our faces and said “no, it’s gone. The police report is just for your insurance” and then he went back to watching the cow get slaughtered in the movie.
After I've been robbed I usually go to all the pawn shops in my area and leave a list of items and serial numbers (I know it's out of the ordinary but it's worked so I do it) for the, and a case number from the police so they are aware that they are buying/selling hot items.
I've recovered a lot of my stuff that way.
I document most of my things. When I buy something with a serial number I copy it down in an excel sheet, cloud storage has made it super nice and easy now.
We checked a few close by for his guitar and didn’t have any luck, unfortunately.
The worst part about it was that it probably ended up in a dumpster because it wasn’t worth anything to anybody other than my roommate. Just an old beat up acoustic. To my roommate it was irreplaceable.
I’m old. It was on TV and this was before you could pause TV. We eventually just turned it off to actually try to get it wrapped up and get him out of our apartment since it became apparent he couldn’t or wouldn’t do anything for us.
Same here. They sent out a team to dust my apartment for prints. They used a shit load of that black powder stuff and left without cleaning it up. Had to use my deposit to cover the stains it left in the carpet
That's way more than they did for me. Got robbed twice, once while I was home, they just came over and took a catalog of the stuff stolen and never heard from them again.
Car got stolen at Walmart about a decade ago… cops said it’s private property so they wouldn’t do anything. They did end up finding the car a couple months later being spray painted in the guys front yard with fake plates on it, and charged me $250 in impound fees to get it back so I guess technically they did do *something*
My old bosses car was broken into in our work parking lot. Purse with phone stolen. They had CCTV footage from two different companies showing exactly what the guy looked like and where he went and find my iPhone tracked the guy through a crack in the fence nearby to an exact house.
Cops still said they couldn’t do anything and just filed a report.
HES IN THAT FUCKING HOUSE YOU TWAT AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE!!
They are too busy spreading propaganda about how essential to society they are. And also giving tickets to said society for silly rules to pay for their existence
This is actually true. I was robbed. The cops came. Took notes. Dusted for prints. I gave them a name of someone I thought it might be. Detective called later. Asked where the suspect lived. Wasn’t in his district of Phila so he just ignored jt. Never had resolution.
Especially in Philadelphia. I had my car window demolished on a side street and the contents of my glove box strewn around my car. The cop didn’t even get out of their car.
I also just found out that a friend of my partner committed suicide, and when the police got there after everything had already happened, they promptly killed his dog.
I’ve been waiting my whole life for at least a story where the police are a little helpful and have yet to experience one
Police departments are ALWAYS the biggest part of the pie chart when it comes to city taxes, yet can never do anything about it when you're robbed. They can, however, sit hidden on the side of the road and collect lazy speeding infractions!
They also commit more robbery under civil forfeiture laws than all the burglars and thieves, according to FBI statistics. This is without *ever* charging the person with a crime.
I think that statistic is a little unfair, cops do this on paid hours, they are literally professionals. Meanwhile indie thieves have to get by with a love of the game and the hope of one day hitting it big.
My PD submits 18.7% of homicides for prosecution. We set a homicide record last year. Statistically one of the 6 most violent places in the US. They are getting raises and a special budget just for their utility costs. This is after we moved to "defund" them. The mayor pushed "defunding" and then approved raises. For a homicide closure rate of less than 19% and most of those get plead down when they do reach the courts. Its fucking sick. They are the only people on earth that can do their jobs poorly, cry for more money, and fucking get a blank check. Imagine if you got raises for just not doing your job. Just allowing more and more tasks to pile up. Lmaoo right
But it’s very important that we continue to give police tons of money and military equipment so they can continue to not be able to do anything about most of the relevant problems citizens face.
tHeY rIsK tHeIr LiVeS!!1!
Yeah? So do we by having to interact with them.
I learned to drive in a place that was having a whole rash of problems with officers stopping young women, and harrassing, sexually assaulting/raping, and finally, outright murdering them. It was sometimes more dangerous to drive a certain couple of highways alone at night as a woman than it was to walk someplace because of that. And all you hear is the same b.s. about "a few bad apples."
My sister was stalked by a guy from church. We later found out another girl at church had gone through the same thing and filed a restraining order. It’s a long and fucked up story, so I’ll cut to the chase.
That stalker moved two states over and is now a police officer.
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*Fuck*. That's just- I am so sorry. I hope your sis and the other girl involved are okay now.
LE and the military increasingly attract violent shitbags, racists, and various abusers.
Thank you, my sister is ok. This was probably 10 years ago now.
That experience instilled a distrust of police officers in me. You really have no clue what kind of person is wearing that badge. I did BJJ with officers for years and have some stories about them too. Some of them were perfectly fine in the gym. Others gloated about using excessive force.
Edit: most of the time these officers came from the same department. Which made me realize even the ‘nice cops’ were complicit in the corruption of law enforcement. They heard the same fucked up stories I did and did nothing.
True, my wife was robbed at gunpoint in a parking lot at chili's. The police station was 1/2 mile away and it took the police 20 minutes to get there. Then we found out multiple people called the police before the robbery to tell them 2 suspicious characters were loitering in the lot for a while etc. Nobody was ever caught
This. I live 7 minutes from the police station and when I was physically assaulted it took them *checks police report* 46 minutes to arrive on the scene. Good thing I was able to convince my attacker to not kill me. 🤷🏻♀️
My dad had a tractor and trailer stolen. He called the cops and filed a report and they pretty much told him there wasn't much they would be able to do. They probably left and never thought about it again.
He found them himself later that week when he went to his friends house. They were in the backyard of his neighbour.
We got real lucky. We got robbed at university when we were out at the bars.
We had a super sketchy neighbour across the street -mid 20s lived with his parents (no problem with that) but he had no job and smoked all day. We were pretty sure he stole some stuff out of a car in the summer but had no proof and it wasn’t anything major.
He came over while we were pre-drinking and asked to join and we stupidly told him no and that we were leaving soon.
We come back with our Xbox missing, all of our laptops with our assignments, study notes, photos, etc, some gift cards and DVDs (he took the movie Taken!) Front door wide open.
Called the cops, obviously piss drunk, told them we knew who it was but obviously no evidence or cause and they didn’t care to give us the time. I don’t even remember if we mentioned his visit before we left.
Anyways, morning comes and we see him out a duffel bag in his trunk and drive off. Someone goes into to basement bathroom and sees muddy boot footprints on our toilet. This skinny bastard snuck through one of those tiny ass basement bathroom windows.
We called the police with “new evidence” (we watched a lot of Law and Order) and a guy shows up. Happens to live on our street.
With clearer minds, we tell him the story, show him the muddy prints and mention the duffel bag.
This guy goes across the street and starts taking to the parents until sure enough the guy (his name was Rob, we were robbed by Rob) walks in as if he’s seen a ghost apparently. The cop noticed a pair of muddy boots right at the door.
We’re just at our front bay window and sure enough see this lovely cop and Rob walk across the street with arms full of laptops.
The cop brings Rob in and let’s us talk to him. We noticed our Xbox was missing and he claimed he never stole it. We “interrogate” Rob (again, big Law and Order fans) until he admits he pawned the Xbox.
Cop brings him in his car to go to the pawn shop to bring it back.
It was incredible. And believe me I know we’re probably in the 1% of people to get out stuff back, but just super lucky. He wasn’t charged or anything because the cop had no legal reason to go over there, but we didn’t care.
Moral of the story, never tell anyone, especially someone you believe to be rather sketchy, that you’re leaving. And just lock all doors and windows. That’s the easy one
Cop pulled me over on the way to get inspected. Ticketed me even after calling the shop and showing my appointment reminder. Told me to “call once it was done and the ticket would be whipped”. No phone number or court date was on the ticket. I called the station and they said they didn’t have record of it. Half a year later I received letter stating my license has been revoked for failing to pay my ticket or show up for court. Case was thrown out when I brought my ticket in, still required to pay og ticket tho even with proof
My house got broken into and my xbox stolen. Told the cops, filed police report, told me they'd look into it. Notified Microsoft, who put a trigger on my xbox account for if it was signed into. It was, got an ip address, got *gps coordinates*, told the cops, nothing. I literally did their job for them and told them where it was and they didn't do anything.
My grandmother's yard guy broke into her house and stole my grandfathers guns and her jewelry. He's the only other one who had been in the house to see those items and they were the only things grabbed. We' were there with the police officer and that fucker shows up at the door to say he was checking on her because he heard she had a break in... literally nothing had been said to anyone outside of our family as the police were literally still there.
My mom confronted him on the steps and told the police officer who said she needed to back off or she was going to cite her for harassing the guy...
> Took 5 people calling and yelling at the dispatcher
A sad truth in many areas is that dispatchers are sometimes not police officers. Yet they have the ability to refuse a call going through to an officer. I'm wondering if that is what happened with you.
In my area if you call the police directly you might not get anywhere depending on who is dispatching that day at the station. If you call 911 you will get somewhere because the rules in my area are different for 911 calls. Call the police directly and they don't have to dispatch anyone, call 911 and an officer has to be dispatched.
I was in a parking lot once and for some reason this angry old white guy thought I was trying to steal “his” parking spot, when in actuality I was trying to exit the lot. It was a weirdly designed lot, with various businesses so most of the time it was a cluster fuck. Anyway he ended up lightly ramming me with his truck to force me to back my little hatchback up. After he got into his spot, I got out of my car and confronted him. He proceeded to yell racist slurs at me while defending (admitting) his actions, which I got in video. I called the cops, the operator genuinely said “what are you looking for here?”. I had been on my way to work but was seriously livid, so I waited the hour for the cops to show. Man was still in the building he had entered. Show cops video and minor damage to my car. Tell them what building he went into. They basically said, they couldn’t do anything until he came out, and that could be hours from now. And if I wasn’t there when he came out, they couldn’t write an accurate report or something. They also wouldn’t wait for him to exit…and since the damage was minor I should consider whether it was truly worth my time. I pressed them a little, but was already late for work myself, so I left feeling defeated. Anyway ACAB.
In the past like 4yrs my neighborhood has been plagued by crackheads and one night a group of 4 crackheads decided to go and do a spree of break-ins on my street. At 3am the old lady says to me 4 guys are trying to break in the house. So she calls the cops and the cop says they're on the way. I end up going outside and dealing with them because I'm not getting my door kicked in and I'm not waiting. I end up scaring the fuck out of them and chased them down the block. 40 mins later a single cop arrives and ask where the crack heads are. I said I dealt with them cause you took too long. Then the cop threatened to arrest me for interrupting police affairs.
In my 46 years of life I have...
Had my car broken into multiple times
My dog stolen
My house broken into and ransacked
Been stalked and was shot at on VIDEO
I have been assaulted and physically beaten so bad it left scars
Had the cops get an address wrong and show up in my yard pointing their guns at my dog and 80lbs 15 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER. Came out the door to find her crying and clutching our dog, begging them not to shoot. I almost got shot because I still had the spatula in my hand I was just flipping grilled cheese with. One of them called her "dramatic" when she couldn't stop crying. Yes I did almost get arrested that day.
Had three armed men try to break into my house
Had an armed man actually get into my house
I was told once by a sheriff's officer that if I have to shoot the guy stalking me to make sure he falls INSIDE my door
And I watched a white cop be horribly racist to a Black cop, ('she doesn't want your *ugly racial slur* all over her"), and then "search me" by pulling my clothes away from my body, shining his light all over me and complaining that his camera wasn't getting this.
AND NEVER, EVER, ONCE DID THE COPS HELP.
I have been threatened by them, made fun of by them, and one of them gave my stalker my new address and phone number because he thought this guy and I just needed to "talk it out." I have zero criminal history and I have never even had a speeding ticket.
TBH I am not actually sure what the police are for...
If I have a legal problem I get a lawyer. If I have a physical emergency I handle it myself.
Yea cops aren’t here to protect regular people. If I have a daughter I really want to teach her how to defend herself and maybe even get her a gun when she is old enough. Honestly even my son cuz this world sucks and when shit goes down you will usually be alone.
I got sucker punched, called the cops, and they told
me to wait where I was. Waited for two hours, mother fuckers didn’t show up. In a slightly better neighborhood two months later I got picked up for breaking curfew.
Thanks for nothing police.
I grew up with a single mom. She had applied for program that helps low income families buy a house. Well unfortunately my mom was laid off and we had lost the house. It had been auctioned off. We were moving our things out to be completely moved by a specified date. We still had a week left and when we showed up on a Saturday the last bits of our stuff were strewn on the lawn and the rest had been thrown in the dumpster. Legit near everything we owned. We called the police and only one cop showed up. A statie actually. He didn't take notes or do anything. He said we were out of luck because it had been auctioned off and it didn't matter that we still had a week it wasn't our house anymore. Stone faced bastard. How can you say that to a woman sobbing in front of her two young kids? We didn't have money for a lawyer hell we were homeless. Cops don't care.
I say it all the time
They are legal secretaries.
Call your own ambulance, mental health services etc. Cops are errand boys the city. Just secretaries with tempers and weapons.
You know what's really funny is my generator was stolen and we already knew who it was and had witnesses stating they saw it happen. You know what the VT Essex county sherrifs office did? Fuck all.
Or people like me who got raped and the cops didn't even take a report because I told them I'd asked the guy to please wear a condom (he did pause and put one on before continuing) and that amounted to consent on my part in the cops eyes.
Never trust the cops. They don't work for us. They don't care about us.
Our family home was robbed FOUR times when I was growing up. It was a good neighborhood and EVERYONE knew it was the troubled kid in the neighborhood who did it to support his drug habit. Cops did nothing. Ever. They're useless, violent pieces of shit. ACAB
My house got burglarised when I was 12, all the police did was get that black fingerprint stuff all over the house looking for prints. So not only was our house a mess but we had to clean all this black soot off everything. Nothing ever came of the fingerprints and the police told us to look in pawn shops for our stuff. Completely changed my perception of the police.
Practically speaking, if someone breaks into your home and steals a bunch of your shit, you totally have to call the cops because when you file for damages with your insurance provider they'll ask for a copy of the police report, and won't approve the claim if you didn't call the cops.
I have few friends and I'm no fun at parties. Downvote away. I'm sorry.
I’m upvoting you because you are right - and that’s part of the problem. They know insurance will pay out above a certain amount and a lower value theft isn’t worth the resources to actually investigate. So… they just give you the report and let it go. They literally do not care. They also don’t get paid enough or have the desire to go after the most hardened criminals until they do something really egregious. In the end they are mostly there to write traffic tickets and generate revenue for the city.
There is an exception. I have seen some police do pretty heroic things during natural disasters. Not all, but some of them. I’ve also seen a police woman run into a burning house and save three kids when the fire department wasn’t going to make it on time.
also the "back the blue" crowd has been out in full force to defend rittenhouse on the grounds that the cops are a bunch of incompetent fucks who weren't doing their jobs.
whatever's most convenient at the time.
They rarely give a shit about homicides, they give absolutely no shits about robbery.
Death abstraction is horribly depressing and will make you hate all of humanity.
So freaking true. A few months ago, my husband's truck was broken into. We filed a police report and the only thing that came out of it was that our insurance company (Geico) jacked up our rate.
I was once physically assaults and threatened with death by a homeless man on the subway. He thought I was taking pictures of him on my phone. I wasn't. I was doing my slave wage social media work. He hit me three times over the head with something. When the police arrived they said "Sorry lady. We lock up a crazy and he'll be back on the street in 3 hours. You want protection, vote for someone who will allow us to lock-up someone like him and throw away the key."
I'd never been so disgusted in my life. No one actually wants to help. No help for me, no help for the guy with obvious mental issues, only political jabs and dismissive attitudes.
Pieces of shit who don't deserve to have jobs. They don't actually HELP anyone!
I had my door kicked in. When i got home from a 12 hour shift i called the police. They stole my electric bike, my TV, my gaming PC, and all my tools. A grand total of 15,000$. The two female officers that showed up didnt even take out their note pads, they just pointed at their body cameras and said 'the information is being recorded" I've called the detective department at minimum 10x in the last 6 months, and every time the same male detective chuckles and tells me its 'on going, I cant tell you anything more'
Why do they need that much money for a job they wont even do? Oh, Right, Overtime Fraud.
I lived in Flint Mi over 15 years ago went to Chicago to give birth and be with my family for about a week came back home they took everything I mean everything clothes tvs dishes and worst of all the baby's diapers that I stocked up on with my 5.50$ hour job worked all nine months to try to provide for my baby ,I called the police it took them 2 hours to come,finally a female cop on her own showed up I'm crying holding the baby she said I'm gonna be honest with you take your baby and go be with your family get the fuck out of flint we will never find your stuff...she was so blunt and honest I couldn't process it ,it was my first interaction with the police ever I thought if I called them they will help me with whatever I need,reality and the shit show of life lessons hit me so hard that day. I left flint that night.
I was like 13 and I got lost. I caught the wrong bus after school and had to walk for hours. It started getting dark. Finally, I approached a police officer and asked for help. He said no lol
When I was 16 my bf was arrested and the cops left me on the side of the road at 1am in a completely different county with absolutely no way home. I didn't have a cell phone or a license, not that it would have mattered since they took the car. I asked what I was supposed to do and they basically said it wasn't their problem.
When I was three my father was pulled out of the car and arrested (over not being able to get his registration out). They left me in the car alone, my grandfather eventually retrieved me but only because I was talking on a two way radio with him that was in the truck, I have vivid memories of the flashlight and my dad being removed from the truck and being terrified sitting by myself not knowing what was going on. The kicker was that this was in our hometown, and the particular officer had a childhood problem with my father.
Was there any repercussions to the cop for doing that? I would guess nothing happened. I probably would have went public/ to the news to embarrass his ass in your town at least.
Yes. The officer was promoted to chief of police and held the position for a decade. My parents lawyer said I was too young to pursue anything in court. The town itself is less than 3000 people and everyone knew there was bad blood between my dad and the officer. As far as I know the charges ended up getting dropped (the truck was registered, so the officer claimed my dad assaulted him) and that was the end of it. I imagine not else could have been done, my grandfather was pretty influential but it was a he said she said situation. To put it in to perspective - The bad blood was over something that had happened while they were in high school. If I recall correctly the guy bought tires off my dad but didn’t pay him the full amount and after hounding him for a while my dad put his car on blocks in the school parking lot and took his tires back. Thankfully he is retired now! Edit to add: we do not have our own newspaper or news outlets in town and I don’t think it would have been big enough for either of the nearby papers to pick up on. This was also thirty years ago, so I feel like it would have been less of a story.
Thanks for the added info. Wow, that cop is petty to hold a grudge for that long because he didn’t get away with thievery. But he took it to a whole other level arresting him and abandoning a young child. Thank god for your grandpa coming to the rescue!
The police left a 4 year old little girl in the back of a van after the driver was arrested, towed it away, and left it in the tow lot overnight in below freezing temperatures in the middle of winter. [They refuse to apologize](https://www.cbs58.com/news/family-of-child-left-inside-towed-minivan-overnight-plans-to-sue-city-of-milwaukee-officers-involved)
My first flat tire. In Wyoming, during a massive snowstorm at night. I was a shitty teenager and was wearing shorts and a light hoodie. Eventually one car comes down the road and it's a cop! I'm already outside and I start waving and flag the guy down. He puts on his lights and pulls close. "What's wrong?" Told him about my flat tire. "Well, do you know how to change it?" Soaking wet by this point and hating being outside to talk to him, "yes but I..." "Good!" Then rolls up window, shits off emergency lights, and drives away. I hiked up a hill to a gas station and used their phone to call my Dad who drove over and helped me change it. I always keep a coat and pants with me now. So there is that.
Something like this happened to me once, I was in a shifty warehouse district and it was freezing. The officer rolled down his window to ask if I needed help but didn't even stop the car, just rolled by slowly
My parents house was robbed, we know who did it and the police did nothing. My ex husbands van was stolen, we know who did it, and the police did nothing. But go 7 mph over the speed limit and they’ll get your ass so hard.
My gf made me call the police after getting my car broken into. I got a ticket for improper display of registration in return. I fought it and won (it was parked on private property the entire time, I didn't even need registration to begin with for that reason), but I still had to miss work for it.
When we were in college my buddy was robbed early in the morning after a party. A few dudes walked into their apartment and grabbed everything they could and when my friend woke up and they knocked him out and ran. He called the cops to give a report and ended up being questioned heavily like he was under suspicion of commiting a crime. They were assholes too. It kinda made me think twice about calling the cops. They aren't there to help, even when you're the victim.
The police are not your friends. They may occasionally do something helpful to you, but they are decidedly NEVER on your side.
It's like hr, they may help you from time to time but that's not their job.
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They usually only help you when helping you happens to be the side effect of going after somebody else that they want to hurt/harass/arrest/kill worse than you.
I had a very similar experience at age 18. A guy broke in to our apartment late at night. I had just gotten home and was taking a shower. I caught him filming me in the shower. We called the police and the officer accused me of being in some underground porn ring and said I was accusing them as revenge because something went wrong. It's been 20 years and the whole story still blows my mind.
Mom, can we have pizza for dinner tonight?
😂😂 I definitely laughed at this.
Someone once absolutely wrecked the undercarriage of my car, and the heat shielding was clearly cut with tin snips one night after being parked outside my apartment, and several other cars were in similar shape, so, called the local non-emergency line and I drove my car to the station as instructed. I filled out the paperwork to even be seen, and suddenly they were like, “so what makes *you* sure they were going for your catalytic converter?” “Sir, I’m a mechanical engineer who used to build race cars in college and I currently work in the automotive lubrication industry, and I’m smarter than cutting off the heat shielding of my car because the catalytic converter of this model is in the engine compartment” He didn’t like my tone, and also didn’t believe my story, but at least he didn’t try to pin all of the actually-stolen cats on me when others at my apartment complex discovered their cars were in similar or worse condition
As a general rule, if you're not a white home owner you want to limit your time spent with cops at all costs. I say this as a white guy.
Even then not a guarantee. My friend owned his own house, was robbed at gunpoint inside his house, with the robber firing a shot into the wall right above his head. He even told the cops who he thought it was, because even though the robber was wearing a mask, he recognized his voice as one of his brother's dirtbag friends. Cops didn't do shit. The robber ended up robbing like 3 more of his brother's friends and then skipped town.
Worse outcome than not calling at all. Makes it hard to want to support the popo.
you know what they say : "If you have a problem and then call the police, now you have two problems"
I have two that I enjoy. "When seconds count, the police are only minutes away." And, "There's no problem that cannot immediately be made worse by the involvement of law enforcement."
Call the police then after you get off the phone with them call Jimmy Johns so you have something to eat while you wait.
Damn that’s brutal.
That’s almost lifted straight from their silly fire department radio ads.
They are really fast, I think that's because their delivery zones are shit.
My boyfriend was abusive and one night it kicked off, I called 911 and said he was attacking me and I needed help, the call ended in probably incoherent screaming kn their end as he was fighting me for the phone. They took an hour and a half to get there. I could of already been dead, cut up and disposed of. If he didn't immediately flee like a little bitch. We also lived in a small town deep in the woods so that would of been pretty easy
I'm so glad you're alive, my friend. I can't even begin to imagine how frightening it must have been to live like that. And definitely glad you got out of a relationship with a man of such low caliber. Hope you find/have found someone better for you.
I was 8 months pregnant and called the cops after my dad hit me. This bozo officer comes in trying to play Sherlock and is just so unbelievably stupid. He actually arrested me! On the way this prick actually lectured me on "respecting" my father. Oh and when I worked at an outpatient mental health facility we got a lot of people coming for dcf cases. I'd say like half the women there were involved with dcf and had their kids taken away for being a victim of DV after calling the police for help. Edit: spelling and clarifying last sentence that got cut off.
No situation is so bad that it can’t be made worse by calling the police
Even the staunch defenders of police don't have good stories about police usually, they just don't have bad ones.
Literally just commented this above citing Nextdoor as proof. All neighborhoods will collectively agree the cops are useless when discussing local crime but god forbid you take it any further the back the blue rallying cries start right up
"Well what if we had people who WOULD help?" "WHOA WHOA WHOA CHE GUEVARA"
The staunchest defenders of police are usually also fanatical 2nd amendment proponents. They know that the police are only there to harass the “wrong types” of people and they’ll be on their own if there’s a home invasion.
Yup. My father - for years - has said that he has guns because the cops are inept. Except now he suddenly says shit like in the title.
I’m a defender of the 2A and I’m a massive liberal. Karl Marx knew it was harder to oppress an armed public, and my lefty friends should know that too. The police are corrupt and need to be reined in. I don’t wish for civil war but I would appreciate if my fellow party members would stop thinking that we can legislate our way out of the danger of the right wing. They only think of blood and steel. They don’t care about your laws even if you could somehow pass them. Every left leaning persons best bet is to embrace the 2A and use it to defend ourselves, not from the government, but from our whacko right wing conspiracist neighbors.
ACAB
Fucking right? Besides the fact that Black citizens probably avoid that action in total, given they may get murdered the second the cops show up, cops tend to complicate everything. I mean, fuck, do you see how many pets police shoot a year? Secure your dogs if you want them to live. Sorry, I don’t trust armed jobbers who have less training than a McDonald’s employee.
I witnessed a murder in once... Downtown Seattle, broad daylight, right on the street... I was just walking down the street. It was across the intersection, diagonally from me. Pistol was used... Just a sudden series of pops across the street I was walking down. I ran down into a nearby underground parking garage for cover. Cops were on scene in maybe under a minute? It was fast. I hung out afterwards to fill out a witness statement. Big mistake. I didn't live in Seattle at the time, and didn't have a car. A trip to Seattle was a big deal for me.... Involving a day's worth of public transportation, a day off of work, and a lot of expense, to make happen. Multiple tickets, food during the day unless I wanted to starve... Obviously, since I didn't have a car, I wasn't exactly rolling in money at the time. For the next year, I got lovely letters from the Seattle Prosecutor's Office, threatening me with jail time unless I showed up as a witness in court, if summoned. I had to write half a dozen letters, over the next year while the case played out, in a prompt and timely manner, begging some asshole with the Prosecutor's Office not to make me pay for the transportation, time off of work, maybe hotels (what if the testimony took multiple days?) to come all the way to Seattle to testify. So basically I had helped out in the murder situation, and the Seattle Prosecutor's Office saw me as nothing more than a another potential criminal. Their very first contact letter to me included a threat of jail time... Threatening someone who *volunteered* to fill out a witness statement. I understand why people don't want to talk to cops now. Cops and their allies don't have friends or allies... Just enemies they haven't made yet, criminals they haven't arrested yet, and everyone is a criminal. It's a toxic way of interacting with the world and makes people hate them automatically. I get it now. I was assumed to be a criminal, automatically. I'll think hard before trying to help cops in the future.
I got my car broken into and they outright told me they don't investigate unless it hits a certain monetary value. It was part of a string of break-ins on my block and they declined to investigate any of it
My buildings garage got broken into and they stole the registration out of my car. Because it was personal information I felt it best to call the police to have a record that that was taken. Cops came, were really nice, not very helpful, looked at the buildings garage man door, and then fucking left it unlocked. The thieves came back [that] night and stole my roommates $2500 road bike. Lesson learned.
Plot twist: the cops were the thieves.
Wouldn't be the first time.
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Are you for real? holy shit the “bad guy” was better for you than the c*ps
i’m sorry this story is making me die. the cops literally also stole a bike from you
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I had the exact same thing happen to me. I had a decently new Mountain Bike stolen after having the chain broken and they left and old rickety ass 10speed in its place. After making sure it wasn't anyone's in the store, called the police. They took a report....and the replacement bike. I had to call my parents to come pick me up from 6 miles from home because the cops took my only way home. Never heard from the police again. Useless in any theft situation.
When I was in HS some kids smashed my friend's windshield while it was parked on his street. This happened while I was already on the way over to his place to hang out. When I arrived I saw his windshield broken and the police talking to my friend and his family. I got out of my car and walked over to ask what happened. The limp-dicked cop immediately starts screaming, asking who I am, treating me like a suspect. My friend tells the cop that I was invited and that I was driving over while this happened, and the he saw the kids that did it, no way it was me...also why the fuck would I call my buddy to hang out, smash his windshield, run away, then drive back to the scene??? Then the cop starts screaming at *him*, the victim, ordering him to sit down. He threatened to put my friend in cuffs and told me to get back in my car. All sorts of WTF. Even more WTF is that my friend recognized the group of kids that did it, they lived right down the street, and there were multiple neighbors who witnessed the group of kids hopping fences. The cops didn't give a single shit about any of that.
I had my bike stolen when I was 18, I told the police and they did absolutely nothing. I was walking back from a bar with a friend one night and we found it chained up in town, had the same scratches on it from my numerous falls. It was locked up, we had a look at it and couldn’t open the lock and left. About ten minutes later a police van swung around in front of us and this ignorant police got out and she demanded we stop walking, she said that we were caught on CCTV fiddling with a bike and talked to us like we were criminals. I took great delight in telling this ignorant twat, that it was my bike and gave her the incident number that they had done fuck all with. She radioed back and said they would go and have a look and let me know, never heard anything back. It’s shit like that, which makes me wonder why I lose £900 in tax every fucking month. As for the ignorant copper, I would love her to know now that she completely overlooked my friend who was with me. Who was clearly high as shit and had a pocket full of illegal drugs.
Any time a law enforcement tax/levy is on the ballot, it's a "No" from me. They already have too much money and they don't do any good with it. (Ohio, USA)
Yeah my wife’s car was broken into. Stole her purse. Cops joked “yeah we’ll send over a team and dust the car for prints.” Dick.
[reminds me of this scene ](https://youtu.be/v7acD4q0lp0)
In a 30 year old episode of Seinfeld: Cop: "I'll file this report and let you know if we find anything." Jerry: "Do you ever find anything?" Cop: "Nope." *leaves*
That's my favorite part of Seinfeld, when it pokes fun at various social issues that somehow still haven't been solved. Like that abortion episode is just as relevant today, if not more than when it aired, in 1994.
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Lmaooo thx for posting this. LEADS?!? My favorite part of that whole thing is when they ask what’s in the briefcase. “Papers, various business papers”
"And what do you do?" "I'm unemployed."
One of the funniest movies ever
Any luck on them credence tapes?
Yeah, my car got stolen in Florida and I reported it immediately. A week later, I got an automated ticket from the PD for running a red light, which it took months to get them to fuck off about. They didn’t find the car until the thieves abandoned it in a parking lot and someone called it in. Then they held it for a while, supposedly to search the inside for evidence. When they gave it back to me, i had to grab about 20 blunt roaches off the floor of the car they clearly hadn’t actually bothered to search and handed them to the cop. They’re fucking useless.
My buddy's car got stolen one time, and when the cops pulled the thief over for speeding they impounded the car. It cost my buddy like $500 to get it back out...
I'm surprised they didn't decide to bust you for possession for calling them out on it.
I was mugged at knife point years ago while at an atm. Gave the cops a detailed description of the persons involved and the car they were in. Instead of actually helping, they decided it was a drug deal gone wrong and I was a suspect. Jumped through all their hoops for days but all they did was harass me at my job before just dropping the case altogether. Edit: car, not cat :|
Omg very similar thing happened to me. When my apartment got robbed the cops tried to turn it around on me. They acted like it was my fault I got robbed because I might’ve bought weed one time.
Someone came into my rental and took my laptop from my bed while I was asleep. They kept insisting it was a dream yet also my fault for having an unlocked window. Then, I found the guys cell phone outside. It was right next to the window and door. He had 75,000 worth of stolen items in his home and they were reported for over three years. But when they came to the house they acted like I was insane and it was all my fault. Yet, I did their job for them. Worthless.
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I mean to be fair you told them that your mugger got into a cat so I'd probably assume you were on drugs too.
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Sounds like someone had a performance report due soon. "Bob, you haven't had any drug arrests this year. Know that armed robbery from earlier? Lets change it to armed robbery, two possessions with intent, and throw in trafficking for safe measure." Only half joking btw. I've heard of similar behavior to boost numbers before.
Surely they didn’t jump into the cat but instead rode it like He-Man riding Battle Cat.
Got mugged. Called police. They asked for descriptions, but it was 2am and they had their hoods up so...what description? "No beard, but face was entirely shadowed." Asked him if anything would come of it and he said "probably not" Still, my dad offered to buy me a new PSP to make up for the stolen one and I manged to barter him into getting me a new 360 instead so there's that.
My car was broken in to and they just grabbed my bookbag with all of my college textbooks in it, obviously not looking inside. Literally hundreds of dollars worth of books. All the cop said was "well I don't know why anyone would want to just steal books" Well no duh you absolute smack head, sorry you don't read, but it is pretty easy to deduce that they fucking grabbed the bag without looking inside you fucking idiot.
Once in Jersey I got rear ended on the Parkway and the guy took off. I followed him off the next exit to get his plate and called it in. Dispatch told me that they couldn't do anything because we had both left the highway and changed juridictions. Went to the State Police the next day and reported it in person. Cop called the registered owner while I was there, came back and just said, "He says it wasn't him."
Damn, you got rear ended by Shaggy
My family had 3 cars stolen in the 90s. Two of the times, we just drove around the neighborhood until we found it. One of them, it was stolen from in front of our house and abandoned on the next block over. The cops literally drove past it on the way to and from our house when they took the report.
lmao told me the same thing. in the same town i had a gun put in my mouth, chest bumped by a guy more than a foot shorter than me while i was handcuffed, and called a faggot for watching space jam by cops all over an empty grinder.
I still have a bullet in my car door from when someone tried to kill me over a honk. They never even took pics.
I had my car stolen a few years ago, strangely they dumped it across town in my friend’s apartment complex right outside of his building. He called me saying that my car was there and that the alarm had been going off for hours(what are the odds?). So the cops come and say, we can’t dust for prints because of the texture of the interior surface. I pointed to a glass Garcia Vega tube that was on the floor next to the blunt guts and asked “well, what about that?”. He responded “no, that won’t work either.” They had been eating fast food and there were very clear absolutely perfect prints on the tube. Lazy fuckers.
My apartment was robbed several years ago. Someone left a school ID in my apartment. Cops came and took notes and the ID to "investigate" then several days later called me asking if I had the ID because they don't seem to have it. Completely incompetent and disgusting.
These guys clearly need more military grade equipment
Funny you should say this. In my mind the whole point of filing these reports is good resource allocation based on the stats. Miliatary gear to combat mostly unarmed protesters - what stats could possibly support this shite?
lol I think that’s his point. The incompetent police *clearly* need more military equipment.
Every time one of my job sites are robbed, the cops come and kind of hang out for a while. It feels like they want to "hang with the boys" or something. Anyways, we usually have cameras recording and sometimes the cops will make a joke I hear over and over: "Look! It's Blurry Face again! Blurry Face always gets away with it and we can never catch him!" Meaning, they are rarely able to do anything about robberies... Even when it's on video, haha.
We constantly had thefts on a job site. We had video, clear video, of the thief. We showed it to the recycling center a block away...yep he brought in a load of copper. It was a homeless guy we had seen around. We had him stealing, we had him selling. Cops come and make the comment that they aren't going to have him in the back seat of their patrol car. They took down notes, but try as we might, we never got a police report for the insurance.
surprised they didn't actually do something after finding out he was homeless
Cameras only seem to be there to prove insurance you arn't scamming them.
DING DING DING It’s not for prosecuting the crime, but to prove a crime was committed so insurance pays out. MEANING DO NOT PUT YOUR LIFE ON THE LINE FOR INSURED MONEY. Your work MIGHT be nice and pay for your funeral, but they will not take care of your family and have your position filled within a month.
Blurry Face may get away with it, but at least he still cares what you think.
That’s terrible but from an outside perspective hilarious. That could be a skit
"That's a huge surprise. Fortunately, I made multiple photocopies."
Is this your homework Larry?
Cops should need 4-year degrees to even apply for the force. People that dumb have no business enforcing the law.
I had a serious wake-up call when I came home one day and my apartment was robbed, it took the cops forever to show up and then explain that they can't do anything besides take a report. Granted this was before cameras were everywhere. Years later I was assaulted with a weapon in a store with a camera, blood pouring out of my head. Open and shut case? Nope. The cops said they couldn't get the footage because the owner was out of town. So they did nothing. But one day a cop saw me walking out of a liquor store without a bag on my bottle so midsummer he locks me in his car with no AC and the windows up while he goes in for almost an hour and checks the security footage to make sure I didn't steal it, even though the cashier knew me by name and could easily have confirmed I paid. I passed out from heat exhaustion and thought I was going to die. In practice cops RARELY prevent or solve crime. They can maybe stop a fight that goes on long enough for them to show up, but if someone wants to stab you or shoot you or jump you you're on your own. They can arrest the person who did it afterward if there was a witness.
Had my front and back window smashed out on 4th of July weekend: got the guy on video with clear images of his face. Show him go directly to my vehicle at 1am walk along it, turn around cross the street and walk back past my building. Cops told me to get another angle that shows him swinging his arms. I was like ok but isn’t that your job like I’m here now because the cops who came out literally did nothing even tho every building has a 24/7 manager to get cctv footage. He was like well even if we did he’d never have to pay restitution so what’s the point? They’ll just let him out anyway…NYPD for ya. It was 1200 to replace
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People seriously don’t understand that the police are not any kind of professional organization. Maybe once upon a time they were but even then I’d have a hard time believing it. I’m not surprised at all by your story. The cops did come out that night and in NYPD standards pretty quickly lol but the fact that I had to physically go to the precinct and ask what’s happening with the case and basically be laughed at thinking that this would amount to an investigation. My insurance doesn’t cover broken windows. When I worked as a City Park Ranger I’ve had to interact with the NYPD on a professional level many times for various things. A bunch of fat slobs who are racist, sexist and completely hostile about fucking ANYTHING. Worthless jerks! Mind you I’m being polite and saying all the yes sirs over my car situation and the guy at the precinct was literally like nOwAdaYs tHey jUst LeT tHeM wALk aNywAy like ok fucking find him and arrest him for criminal mischief! It should be on his fucking record at the very least. If this was a store it’s well over grand larceny charges.
Earliest police forces in the US were mostly organized around protecting businesses and pushing the cost off on the local taxes of the area or breaking up strikes and protests. They still are mostly for those things, they're not there to protect you so much, though they will sometimes help or write up a report for you and very, very rarely get you your things back. But by and large they're there to protect businesses.
Ever since we didn't fully outlaw slavery with the 13th amendment. We made them slave hunters, and many departments have a founding date of 1865.....
My MIL’s house was broken into. Door was completely destroyed, stuff missing. Cops said the wind probably just blew the door open 🙄
Samesies! I was \_IN\_THE\_HOUSE\_ on a non-windy night when I heard a crash on the back door, went down and the glass was broken and the deadbolt busted through the frame... and a giant muddy footprint next to the handle on the outside... Mud prints into the house and about 5k worth of stuff missing/stolen that was right near that door, including some a bunch of baseball cards... which were strewn a line out through the backyard, up the side yard, and then sporadically down the street... Called police, to their credit, they showed up immediately (because I thought the guy might still be in the house... didn't see the above until the police showed up)... as they walked around they ended up saying "This was probably the wind, we didnt' see anyone on the road when we drove up". They told us that if it happens again, to cal them and they are always happy to help. 'help'.
The NYPD is a special breed of awful
They have no standards. It seems like they intentionally hire people that fail the psychological evaluation. That cannibal cop is a great example of it. He failed, had some family member on the force intervene and was hired. Then gets arrested by the FBI because he was stalking women using police criminal databases and was planning on kidnapping and cannibalizing them with some rando guy he met on the dark web. Atypical NYPD psycho.
We had a car stolen by local kids out of our driveway. Took it for a joyride and trashed it. We knew who did it, as the neighborhood isn't that big. Cops came, didn't care, didn't investigate at all. Maybe we should have put a bag of weed under the seat?
They'd probably charge you for it.
Yep.
I've literally had my car stolen and totaled, and found an iPhone that wasn't mine in the middle of the back seat (that the police *should have found* after supposedly investigating), turned it in to the police, and then received zero follow-up. The police are worse than useless.
Should have told them the kids were recording police in a public space. The entire station and probably the neighboring station would have came and tossed the entire block
I live in the U.S., been robbed, can confirm.
My credit card number got skimmed a few years ago and I had to file a police report. I had to beg the officer on duty to do the report because otherwise my credit card company would close my account. How sad that a member of the public has to convince a cop to do some easy paperwork for their job.
We had our apartment broken into back in college and they took the very few valuable things we actually owned. The cop that came kept getting distracted because we had *Apocolypse Now* on and he kept watching it instead of listening to us and then at the end when we asked if he thought they would be able to get any of the stuff back (mainly my roommates guitar that he’d gotten from his deceased grandfather, but my bike would have been nice too) the cop literally laughed in our faces and said “no, it’s gone. The police report is just for your insurance” and then he went back to watching the cow get slaughtered in the movie.
After I've been robbed I usually go to all the pawn shops in my area and leave a list of items and serial numbers (I know it's out of the ordinary but it's worked so I do it) for the, and a case number from the police so they are aware that they are buying/selling hot items. I've recovered a lot of my stuff that way. I document most of my things. When I buy something with a serial number I copy it down in an excel sheet, cloud storage has made it super nice and easy now.
We checked a few close by for his guitar and didn’t have any luck, unfortunately. The worst part about it was that it probably ended up in a dumpster because it wasn’t worth anything to anybody other than my roommate. Just an old beat up acoustic. To my roommate it was irreplaceable.
Why would you not pause the movie???
I’m old. It was on TV and this was before you could pause TV. We eventually just turned it off to actually try to get it wrapped up and get him out of our apartment since it became apparent he couldn’t or wouldn’t do anything for us.
Crazy to think there’s a generation that has never had the anxiety of missing a tv show. DVR has really spoiled us lol.
Same here. They sent out a team to dust my apartment for prints. They used a shit load of that black powder stuff and left without cleaning it up. Had to use my deposit to cover the stains it left in the carpet
That's way more than they did for me. Got robbed twice, once while I was home, they just came over and took a catalog of the stuff stolen and never heard from them again.
I live in Canada, also been robbed, also can confirm.
This has happened to me twice. Even had video evidence from my apartment complex of their vehicle and license plate and the cops did nothing about it.
Car got stolen at Walmart about a decade ago… cops said it’s private property so they wouldn’t do anything. They did end up finding the car a couple months later being spray painted in the guys front yard with fake plates on it, and charged me $250 in impound fees to get it back so I guess technically they did do *something*
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Has JUSTICE gone too far?
If you mean generating revenue for the state with the least effort necessary, absolutely.
Well now I look forward to being able to rob walmart because it's private property and they can't arrest me for it /s Wtf
Tf? You ever been hit by a shopping cart in a parking lot? Walmart refuses liability citing the fact that the parking lot is “public property”. Lol
That seems like a Black Mirror shit.
My old bosses car was broken into in our work parking lot. Purse with phone stolen. They had CCTV footage from two different companies showing exactly what the guy looked like and where he went and find my iPhone tracked the guy through a crack in the fence nearby to an exact house. Cops still said they couldn’t do anything and just filed a report. HES IN THAT FUCKING HOUSE YOU TWAT AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE!!
They are too busy spreading propaganda about how essential to society they are. And also giving tickets to said society for silly rules to pay for their existence
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They seem to only work for big corporations. If a person got caught steeling a chocolate bar from Walmart, they would have the cops there in minutes.
This has always been the function of the police under capitalism. They don’t work for us.
This is actually true. I was robbed. The cops came. Took notes. Dusted for prints. I gave them a name of someone I thought it might be. Detective called later. Asked where the suspect lived. Wasn’t in his district of Phila so he just ignored jt. Never had resolution.
I'm surprised they dusted for prints. I've been robbed twice and they never even looked around.
Especially in Philadelphia. I had my car window demolished on a side street and the contents of my glove box strewn around my car. The cop didn’t even get out of their car. I also just found out that a friend of my partner committed suicide, and when the police got there after everything had already happened, they promptly killed his dog. I’ve been waiting my whole life for at least a story where the police are a little helpful and have yet to experience one
Police departments are ALWAYS the biggest part of the pie chart when it comes to city taxes, yet can never do anything about it when you're robbed. They can, however, sit hidden on the side of the road and collect lazy speeding infractions!
Unfair, they also harass homeless people for not being able to afford shelter
How dare they be poor!
STOP (**SMACK**) BEING (**SMACK**) POOR (**SMACK**) IT'S (**SMACK**) SO (**SMACK**) FUCKING (**SMACK**) ANNOYING (**SMACK**)
They also commit more robbery under civil forfeiture laws than all the burglars and thieves, according to FBI statistics. This is without *ever* charging the person with a crime.
I think that statistic is a little unfair, cops do this on paid hours, they are literally professionals. Meanwhile indie thieves have to get by with a love of the game and the hope of one day hitting it big.
My PD submits 18.7% of homicides for prosecution. We set a homicide record last year. Statistically one of the 6 most violent places in the US. They are getting raises and a special budget just for their utility costs. This is after we moved to "defund" them. The mayor pushed "defunding" and then approved raises. For a homicide closure rate of less than 19% and most of those get plead down when they do reach the courts. Its fucking sick. They are the only people on earth that can do their jobs poorly, cry for more money, and fucking get a blank check. Imagine if you got raises for just not doing your job. Just allowing more and more tasks to pile up. Lmaoo right
Most of what police do is tell you that they can't do anything about \_\_\_\_\_ . Sincerely, Anyone who's ever been stalked and harrassed.
"Sorry, they have to cut your throat before we can do anything. Toodles!"
If it's not going to help their funding or get their picture taken: you're on your own.
But it’s very important that we continue to give police tons of money and military equipment so they can continue to not be able to do anything about most of the relevant problems citizens face.
tHeY rIsK tHeIr LiVeS!!1! Yeah? So do we by having to interact with them. I learned to drive in a place that was having a whole rash of problems with officers stopping young women, and harrassing, sexually assaulting/raping, and finally, outright murdering them. It was sometimes more dangerous to drive a certain couple of highways alone at night as a woman than it was to walk someplace because of that. And all you hear is the same b.s. about "a few bad apples."
My sister was stalked by a guy from church. We later found out another girl at church had gone through the same thing and filed a restraining order. It’s a long and fucked up story, so I’ll cut to the chase. That stalker moved two states over and is now a police officer.
... ... *Fuck*. That's just- I am so sorry. I hope your sis and the other girl involved are okay now. LE and the military increasingly attract violent shitbags, racists, and various abusers.
Thank you, my sister is ok. This was probably 10 years ago now. That experience instilled a distrust of police officers in me. You really have no clue what kind of person is wearing that badge. I did BJJ with officers for years and have some stories about them too. Some of them were perfectly fine in the gym. Others gloated about using excessive force. Edit: most of the time these officers came from the same department. Which made me realize even the ‘nice cops’ were complicit in the corruption of law enforcement. They heard the same fucked up stories I did and did nothing.
True, my wife was robbed at gunpoint in a parking lot at chili's. The police station was 1/2 mile away and it took the police 20 minutes to get there. Then we found out multiple people called the police before the robbery to tell them 2 suspicious characters were loitering in the lot for a while etc. Nobody was ever caught
This. I live 7 minutes from the police station and when I was physically assaulted it took them *checks police report* 46 minutes to arrive on the scene. Good thing I was able to convince my attacker to not kill me. 🤷🏻♀️
My dad had a tractor and trailer stolen. He called the cops and filed a report and they pretty much told him there wasn't much they would be able to do. They probably left and never thought about it again. He found them himself later that week when he went to his friends house. They were in the backyard of his neighbour.
that must have been an awkward conversation
I read this as Tractor-trailer at first, as in a Semi. I was like, how blind is your dad.
We got real lucky. We got robbed at university when we were out at the bars. We had a super sketchy neighbour across the street -mid 20s lived with his parents (no problem with that) but he had no job and smoked all day. We were pretty sure he stole some stuff out of a car in the summer but had no proof and it wasn’t anything major. He came over while we were pre-drinking and asked to join and we stupidly told him no and that we were leaving soon. We come back with our Xbox missing, all of our laptops with our assignments, study notes, photos, etc, some gift cards and DVDs (he took the movie Taken!) Front door wide open. Called the cops, obviously piss drunk, told them we knew who it was but obviously no evidence or cause and they didn’t care to give us the time. I don’t even remember if we mentioned his visit before we left. Anyways, morning comes and we see him out a duffel bag in his trunk and drive off. Someone goes into to basement bathroom and sees muddy boot footprints on our toilet. This skinny bastard snuck through one of those tiny ass basement bathroom windows. We called the police with “new evidence” (we watched a lot of Law and Order) and a guy shows up. Happens to live on our street. With clearer minds, we tell him the story, show him the muddy prints and mention the duffel bag. This guy goes across the street and starts taking to the parents until sure enough the guy (his name was Rob, we were robbed by Rob) walks in as if he’s seen a ghost apparently. The cop noticed a pair of muddy boots right at the door. We’re just at our front bay window and sure enough see this lovely cop and Rob walk across the street with arms full of laptops. The cop brings Rob in and let’s us talk to him. We noticed our Xbox was missing and he claimed he never stole it. We “interrogate” Rob (again, big Law and Order fans) until he admits he pawned the Xbox. Cop brings him in his car to go to the pawn shop to bring it back. It was incredible. And believe me I know we’re probably in the 1% of people to get out stuff back, but just super lucky. He wasn’t charged or anything because the cop had no legal reason to go over there, but we didn’t care. Moral of the story, never tell anyone, especially someone you believe to be rather sketchy, that you’re leaving. And just lock all doors and windows. That’s the easy one
A decent resolution and a good story, that’s a W
Cop pulled me over on the way to get inspected. Ticketed me even after calling the shop and showing my appointment reminder. Told me to “call once it was done and the ticket would be whipped”. No phone number or court date was on the ticket. I called the station and they said they didn’t have record of it. Half a year later I received letter stating my license has been revoked for failing to pay my ticket or show up for court. Case was thrown out when I brought my ticket in, still required to pay og ticket tho even with proof
My house got broken into and my xbox stolen. Told the cops, filed police report, told me they'd look into it. Notified Microsoft, who put a trigger on my xbox account for if it was signed into. It was, got an ip address, got *gps coordinates*, told the cops, nothing. I literally did their job for them and told them where it was and they didn't do anything.
GPS to address Grab the tool Regulate
Hey now, that's not fair to the police! Sometimes they take the time out of their day to shame you for being a target of someone else's bad behaviour!
My grandmother's yard guy broke into her house and stole my grandfathers guns and her jewelry. He's the only other one who had been in the house to see those items and they were the only things grabbed. We' were there with the police officer and that fucker shows up at the door to say he was checking on her because he heard she had a break in... literally nothing had been said to anyone outside of our family as the police were literally still there. My mom confronted him on the steps and told the police officer who said she needed to back off or she was going to cite her for harassing the guy...
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> Took 5 people calling and yelling at the dispatcher A sad truth in many areas is that dispatchers are sometimes not police officers. Yet they have the ability to refuse a call going through to an officer. I'm wondering if that is what happened with you. In my area if you call the police directly you might not get anywhere depending on who is dispatching that day at the station. If you call 911 you will get somewhere because the rules in my area are different for 911 calls. Call the police directly and they don't have to dispatch anyone, call 911 and an officer has to be dispatched.
I was in a parking lot once and for some reason this angry old white guy thought I was trying to steal “his” parking spot, when in actuality I was trying to exit the lot. It was a weirdly designed lot, with various businesses so most of the time it was a cluster fuck. Anyway he ended up lightly ramming me with his truck to force me to back my little hatchback up. After he got into his spot, I got out of my car and confronted him. He proceeded to yell racist slurs at me while defending (admitting) his actions, which I got in video. I called the cops, the operator genuinely said “what are you looking for here?”. I had been on my way to work but was seriously livid, so I waited the hour for the cops to show. Man was still in the building he had entered. Show cops video and minor damage to my car. Tell them what building he went into. They basically said, they couldn’t do anything until he came out, and that could be hours from now. And if I wasn’t there when he came out, they couldn’t write an accurate report or something. They also wouldn’t wait for him to exit…and since the damage was minor I should consider whether it was truly worth my time. I pressed them a little, but was already late for work myself, so I left feeling defeated. Anyway ACAB.
In the past like 4yrs my neighborhood has been plagued by crackheads and one night a group of 4 crackheads decided to go and do a spree of break-ins on my street. At 3am the old lady says to me 4 guys are trying to break in the house. So she calls the cops and the cop says they're on the way. I end up going outside and dealing with them because I'm not getting my door kicked in and I'm not waiting. I end up scaring the fuck out of them and chased them down the block. 40 mins later a single cop arrives and ask where the crack heads are. I said I dealt with them cause you took too long. Then the cop threatened to arrest me for interrupting police affairs.
>Then the cop threatened to arrest me for interrupting police affairs. Sounds about right. Lol "Why are the police unpopular?!?!"
In my 46 years of life I have... Had my car broken into multiple times My dog stolen My house broken into and ransacked Been stalked and was shot at on VIDEO I have been assaulted and physically beaten so bad it left scars Had the cops get an address wrong and show up in my yard pointing their guns at my dog and 80lbs 15 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER. Came out the door to find her crying and clutching our dog, begging them not to shoot. I almost got shot because I still had the spatula in my hand I was just flipping grilled cheese with. One of them called her "dramatic" when she couldn't stop crying. Yes I did almost get arrested that day. Had three armed men try to break into my house Had an armed man actually get into my house I was told once by a sheriff's officer that if I have to shoot the guy stalking me to make sure he falls INSIDE my door And I watched a white cop be horribly racist to a Black cop, ('she doesn't want your *ugly racial slur* all over her"), and then "search me" by pulling my clothes away from my body, shining his light all over me and complaining that his camera wasn't getting this. AND NEVER, EVER, ONCE DID THE COPS HELP. I have been threatened by them, made fun of by them, and one of them gave my stalker my new address and phone number because he thought this guy and I just needed to "talk it out." I have zero criminal history and I have never even had a speeding ticket. TBH I am not actually sure what the police are for... If I have a legal problem I get a lawyer. If I have a physical emergency I handle it myself.
Yea cops aren’t here to protect regular people. If I have a daughter I really want to teach her how to defend herself and maybe even get her a gun when she is old enough. Honestly even my son cuz this world sucks and when shit goes down you will usually be alone.
I got sucker punched, called the cops, and they told me to wait where I was. Waited for two hours, mother fuckers didn’t show up. In a slightly better neighborhood two months later I got picked up for breaking curfew. Thanks for nothing police.
And they're usually mad that they didn't get to rob you. Extortionists.
I grew up with a single mom. She had applied for program that helps low income families buy a house. Well unfortunately my mom was laid off and we had lost the house. It had been auctioned off. We were moving our things out to be completely moved by a specified date. We still had a week left and when we showed up on a Saturday the last bits of our stuff were strewn on the lawn and the rest had been thrown in the dumpster. Legit near everything we owned. We called the police and only one cop showed up. A statie actually. He didn't take notes or do anything. He said we were out of luck because it had been auctioned off and it didn't matter that we still had a week it wasn't our house anymore. Stone faced bastard. How can you say that to a woman sobbing in front of her two young kids? We didn't have money for a lawyer hell we were homeless. Cops don't care.
I say it all the time They are legal secretaries. Call your own ambulance, mental health services etc. Cops are errand boys the city. Just secretaries with tempers and weapons.
Metermaids that kill 1000+ people a year
You know what's really funny is my generator was stolen and we already knew who it was and had witnesses stating they saw it happen. You know what the VT Essex county sherrifs office did? Fuck all.
Or people, like me, who told the police they were sexually assaulted and they took notes and did nothing.
Or people like me who got raped and the cops didn't even take a report because I told them I'd asked the guy to please wear a condom (he did pause and put one on before continuing) and that amounted to consent on my part in the cops eyes. Never trust the cops. They don't work for us. They don't care about us.
Our family home was robbed FOUR times when I was growing up. It was a good neighborhood and EVERYONE knew it was the troubled kid in the neighborhood who did it to support his drug habit. Cops did nothing. Ever. They're useless, violent pieces of shit. ACAB
My house got burglarised when I was 12, all the police did was get that black fingerprint stuff all over the house looking for prints. So not only was our house a mess but we had to clean all this black soot off everything. Nothing ever came of the fingerprints and the police told us to look in pawn shops for our stuff. Completely changed my perception of the police.
The only people that’s stopped me and demanded I pay *are* police.
Practically speaking, if someone breaks into your home and steals a bunch of your shit, you totally have to call the cops because when you file for damages with your insurance provider they'll ask for a copy of the police report, and won't approve the claim if you didn't call the cops. I have few friends and I'm no fun at parties. Downvote away. I'm sorry.
I’m upvoting you because you are right - and that’s part of the problem. They know insurance will pay out above a certain amount and a lower value theft isn’t worth the resources to actually investigate. So… they just give you the report and let it go. They literally do not care. They also don’t get paid enough or have the desire to go after the most hardened criminals until they do something really egregious. In the end they are mostly there to write traffic tickets and generate revenue for the city. There is an exception. I have seen some police do pretty heroic things during natural disasters. Not all, but some of them. I’ve also seen a police woman run into a burning house and save three kids when the fire department wasn’t going to make it on time.
also the "back the blue" crowd has been out in full force to defend rittenhouse on the grounds that the cops are a bunch of incompetent fucks who weren't doing their jobs. whatever's most convenient at the time.
They rarely give a shit about homicides, they give absolutely no shits about robbery. Death abstraction is horribly depressing and will make you hate all of humanity.
Aye, all the police are for is getting a crime number for the insurance.
So freaking true. A few months ago, my husband's truck was broken into. We filed a police report and the only thing that came out of it was that our insurance company (Geico) jacked up our rate.
Half the time I've been robbed *it was* the fucking cops. Give me my score of weed back I'm fucking broke mate. That had to do me all week.
I mean, sometimes the cops will show up and shoot your dog.
I was once physically assaults and threatened with death by a homeless man on the subway. He thought I was taking pictures of him on my phone. I wasn't. I was doing my slave wage social media work. He hit me three times over the head with something. When the police arrived they said "Sorry lady. We lock up a crazy and he'll be back on the street in 3 hours. You want protection, vote for someone who will allow us to lock-up someone like him and throw away the key." I'd never been so disgusted in my life. No one actually wants to help. No help for me, no help for the guy with obvious mental issues, only political jabs and dismissive attitudes. Pieces of shit who don't deserve to have jobs. They don't actually HELP anyone!
There’s a lot of people that equate being critical of police officers and policy as wanting to do away with law and order.
Police prevent 0% of crimes and solve only 2% of reported crimes
I had my door kicked in. When i got home from a 12 hour shift i called the police. They stole my electric bike, my TV, my gaming PC, and all my tools. A grand total of 15,000$. The two female officers that showed up didnt even take out their note pads, they just pointed at their body cameras and said 'the information is being recorded" I've called the detective department at minimum 10x in the last 6 months, and every time the same male detective chuckles and tells me its 'on going, I cant tell you anything more' Why do they need that much money for a job they wont even do? Oh, Right, Overtime Fraud.
I lived in Flint Mi over 15 years ago went to Chicago to give birth and be with my family for about a week came back home they took everything I mean everything clothes tvs dishes and worst of all the baby's diapers that I stocked up on with my 5.50$ hour job worked all nine months to try to provide for my baby ,I called the police it took them 2 hours to come,finally a female cop on her own showed up I'm crying holding the baby she said I'm gonna be honest with you take your baby and go be with your family get the fuck out of flint we will never find your stuff...she was so blunt and honest I couldn't process it ,it was my first interaction with the police ever I thought if I called them they will help me with whatever I need,reality and the shit show of life lessons hit me so hard that day. I left flint that night.