Imagine being a citizen, just a regular schlub, and you get pick pocketed downtown. You head over to the district, wait for the desk crew to fill out a police report, maybe start making your calls to cancel credit cards and figure out how you're going to replace your ID and other crap you carry around.
If you're lucky, you might get a call from the detectives in a few days, maybe a week. If you have a conscientious detective, they might pull some video or try to find some tape that could assist in identifying a culprit, but reality being what it is, the wallet is pretty much a write-off.
Evidently, that isn't the case if you happen to have a parent who runs a large metropolitan police department:
If you're lucky, you might get a call from the detectives in a few days, maybe a week. If you have a conscientious detective, they might pull some video or try to find some tape that could assist in identifying a culprit, but reality being what it is, the wallet is pretty much a write-off.
Evidently, that isn't the case if you happen to have a parent who runs a large metropolitan police department:
- SCC, thought you'd like to know the sups daughter got her wallet taken in 018 and the case is assigned to "Area Central RBT". Not only assigned, but it got a 4-detective team to backtrack her movements. They pulled security footage of her entire route. The OT was 24+ hours for the team of dicks, almost like years past.
The RD number has been locked down so only the assigned detectives and certain supervisors can view the case report and any attempts to run it will raise a red flag at HQ. So whatever you do, don't run HV-184000. You will be answering a lot of uncomfortable questions.
It certainly is amazing that the homicide clearance rate is hovering around 30%, but the department can spare 4 detectives and a blank overtime check for a pick pocket case.
It certainly is amazing that the homicide clearance rate is hovering around 30%, but the department can spare 4 detectives and a blank overtime check for a pick pocket case.