About Filing a Police Report

[not_nadine]

Sorry to hear of your recent bad luck not_nadine. I have no advice except to say that if your internal radar or intuition went off on this person earlier then you have to start trusting your inner warnings and pay heed to your 'little voice' more often. All the best, mal.

You say true, mal. I will try, sad that I have to.

 

[Grandpa]

It's very easy for police reports to fall thru the cracks. There's a continuous stream of reports that come thru a police station, both on the patrol and the detective side. Literally the reports come night and day 365 days a year. It's like trying to swim in a flooded river trying to stay on top of your case load. It gets very stressful and when someone assists you with some of the leg work or takes some of the initiative to be pro-active on their end, it makes the case so much easier to work. It hardly ever happens which is why I was trying to give NN as many steps as possible to help get the ex-roomie hauled in for what he did.

I was a wise ass to a cop once....ONCE when I was sixteen. Ended up giving me a much deserved speeding ticket. The funny thing? When I go work for the police department ten years later, want to guess which officer was my shift supervisor?? Luckily he didn't remember me even though I told him about the ticket. He just laughed and told me something like "If I wanted to hear a story from you about getting a speeding ticket from me, I'd have you write a report"..lol

Not to hijack Nottie's thread - and dear lady, we are so sorry for these troubles besetting you and the position that it puts you in....

Seriously.

But yeah, the report that I filed with the Detroit PD over the phone. I was ripped off for $600, but it was software, so it wasn't real money, just the money from a sale from a stolen credit card, but I thought they should hear about it, particularly for the poor jaspers who had their card stolen. The PD folks weren't interested in hearing about it, but they said they wanted my statement, and I gave it, and I expected it to sink out of sight.

The motorcycle, though. That was in a small city, a college town (Normal, IL, believe it or not). I went out, the bike was gone, I called in late to work, called the PD, told them about it, and they said to wait and they'd send someone out. After waiting for an hour, I took off to look for it. Four-way intersection, I decided to go north. Passed a development of apartment buildings on the right, and I took one of the entryways. Went past apartment buildings, looked at one, and went behind it, and there was the bike. I parked the car, rode the bike back to the apartment, walked back, and got the car. It was the weirdest thing, finding it like that. Called the PD, told them I found it, and they said okay in a bored tone. So that had a good result - but no thanks to the police.

The traffic stops, no complaints (excepet the one). In fact, the last five or six times I've been pulled over, it's been the catch-and-release program. I was cooperative, polite, and got away with warnings or friendly waves.