OPINION and DISCUSSION WANTED
Do you think that a local police department should have a way for crimes to be reported anonymously?
Do you think that if someone requests to remain anonymous that the dispatchers should be allowed to harass them into making a report to them even if the person is requesting to speak to an officer? Especially when calling the NONE EMERGENCY LINE.
Do you think the dispatcher should be allowed to say "I can see where you are calling from on the caller ID so you might as well tell me who you are!"?
Do you think that a police officer should then be allowed to scold you when he does call you back 10 hours later, because you repeatedly asked to speak to an officer instead of to a dispatcher who would of put your name over the radio for all your neighbors to hear you called the police?
Call your local police department. NON EMERGENCY LINE
NOT 9 1 1!!!!
Ask them how you are to report a crime tip anonymously?
Write it down and share it with your neighbors.
Did you know in some counties they do not even want you to call 9 1 1 to report a drunk driver?
They want you to call the police non emergency line.
In my county they have no way for you to do that.
In my county they police tell people who called on them and you are more likely to have the person you called the police on show up at your door then you are the officer.
I am not just talking from personal experience. This has happened to me and others I know right here in the county.
Don't get me wrong we have a great sheriff and some good deputies but this continues through the last three sheriffs.
Recently I and a friend saw a group of kids (17 to 19 year olds) we know walking around town with a bucket and a gas can.
We could casually identify two of them and swear it was that person in court. Three we could not.
We did not think much of it till the next day as we heard of gas tanks being punctured over the last few weeks.
She tried to report it with out giving our names as we feared retaliation from the local family.
The dispatcher would not let it rest and let us speak to an officer.
This is how she had been told in the past to be able to report a crime and keep her name out of it.
Many hours later she received a call back and was scolded by the officer for not giving the details to dispatch.
The officer said well allot of good this does us we have had no crimes of gas siphoning going on in the county.
She then told the officer that the local power plant and a local teacher had both reported such crimes in the last three weeks.
He sure backtracked fast but still made her out to be the bad guy here.
We could of identified those people and they probably would of been caught last night as I saw them again out with the same implements.
But because of not being able to keep our names out of it we choose to say we could not identify them.
Was it wrong? YES
Was it prudent to our safety? YES
Can you say you would of done differently?
Praying for our youth and police officers today.
Blessings
HHC
Do you think that a local police department should have a way for crimes to be reported anonymously?
Do you think that if someone requests to remain anonymous that the dispatchers should be allowed to harass them into making a report to them even if the person is requesting to speak to an officer? Especially when calling the NONE EMERGENCY LINE.
Do you think the dispatcher should be allowed to say "I can see where you are calling from on the caller ID so you might as well tell me who you are!"?
Do you think that a police officer should then be allowed to scold you when he does call you back 10 hours later, because you repeatedly asked to speak to an officer instead of to a dispatcher who would of put your name over the radio for all your neighbors to hear you called the police?
Call your local police department. NON EMERGENCY LINE
NOT 9 1 1!!!!
Ask them how you are to report a crime tip anonymously?
Write it down and share it with your neighbors.
Did you know in some counties they do not even want you to call 9 1 1 to report a drunk driver?
They want you to call the police non emergency line.
In my county they have no way for you to do that.
In my county they police tell people who called on them and you are more likely to have the person you called the police on show up at your door then you are the officer.
I am not just talking from personal experience. This has happened to me and others I know right here in the county.
Don't get me wrong we have a great sheriff and some good deputies but this continues through the last three sheriffs.
Recently I and a friend saw a group of kids (17 to 19 year olds) we know walking around town with a bucket and a gas can.
We could casually identify two of them and swear it was that person in court. Three we could not.
We did not think much of it till the next day as we heard of gas tanks being punctured over the last few weeks.
She tried to report it with out giving our names as we feared retaliation from the local family.
The dispatcher would not let it rest and let us speak to an officer.
This is how she had been told in the past to be able to report a crime and keep her name out of it.
Many hours later she received a call back and was scolded by the officer for not giving the details to dispatch.
The officer said well allot of good this does us we have had no crimes of gas siphoning going on in the county.
She then told the officer that the local power plant and a local teacher had both reported such crimes in the last three weeks.
He sure backtracked fast but still made her out to be the bad guy here.
We could of identified those people and they probably would of been caught last night as I saw them again out with the same implements.
But because of not being able to keep our names out of it we choose to say we could not identify them.
Was it wrong? YES
Was it prudent to our safety? YES
Can you say you would of done differently?
Praying for our youth and police officers today.
Blessings
HHC
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