That’ll teach ya
In London, the police are teaching people they should lock their doors by stealing from them. I guess the next step is to beat people up and take their money if they’re out too late in a bad part of town? You know, for their own good.
August 31st, 2009 at 10:35 am
The Chicago police and Cook County sheriffs do it all the time but they don’t leave notes.
August 31st, 2009 at 12:22 pm
I’m just old enough to remember when police work had a goal, however futile, to create an environment where citizens could safely leave their belongings unlocked. Sure it was unlikely to be achieved but the efforts were put into removing those who stole rather than the personal property of citizens.
August 31st, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Markie Marxist sez: “Hmm. Our Marxist/warrior/hero/government agents are expropriating private property from private citizens (or subjects or whatever Brits imagine themselves to be these days). It’s like the government agents are Marxists or something. Ha! Ha! We Marxists own what’s left of Britain! Take that, Orwell! We won! Ha! Ha!”
September 1st, 2009 at 6:33 am
And taxes are just the government’s way of telling you to find a black market job.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:02 pm
ST. PETERSBURG – The St. Petersburg Police Department has subscribed to an online service that will eventually give residents access to crime reports with just a keyboard stroke at their computers.
And, if residents want, they can sign up for alerts so they can be told of burglaries or other crimes near their homes.
The service is called CrimeReports.com. St. Petersburg police spokesman Bill Proffitt said it will cost the department only roughly $2,400 a year, and neighborhood associations and crime watches have been hankering for it for some time.
The department has not unveiled the system to the public yet, Proffitt said.
Once it does, a resident can sit at her computer, click on a map and look at the police calls for service in her neighborhood. The information is updated every 12 hours, Proffitt said.
A resident can also sign up for alerts for specific crimes, meaning CrimeReports.com will send her an e-mail if there is, say, a reported burglary in her neighborhood.
Information on sexual offenders is also imported into the system, so residents can be told whenever a sexual offender moves into the neighborhood, Proffitt said.
“It’s like one-stop shopping,” Proffitt said.
St. Petersburg is the 500th law enforcement agency to enlist the Web site’s services, according to a prepared statement authorized by the company. Agencies in Los Angeles County, Washington, D.C., Boston, Baltimore, and Portland also use it. There are presently also 15 other Florida cities that do, too.
Reporter Stephen Thompson can be reached at (727) 451-2336