Good article. My opinion of Neighborhood Watch programs changed after I was a watch captain for several years. The dispatchers that I called to didn’t really want to hear from me. Reports called in messed up the normal day to day activities of deputies and state cops, and you quickly become a nuisance. If you call in real crimes, you are making them look bad, and because you know something about crimes in your neighborhood, you become a suspect. Neighborhood Watch captains should expect to be treated with suspicion, maybe even followed by cops for miles and miles (They have your cell phone number!). You might even have a surveillance van hang around your home. Nowadays I see nothing.
Mainly because police who actually want to do their duty are about 5% of the total now, it seems. The rest want to get paid for driving around, eating pizza, and shooting dogs.
Uncle Pays the Bills Again
We say more dumb shit before noon than most people say all day.
August 21st, 2013 at 8:07 am
Good article. My opinion of Neighborhood Watch programs changed after I was a watch captain for several years. The dispatchers that I called to didn’t really want to hear from me. Reports called in messed up the normal day to day activities of deputies and state cops, and you quickly become a nuisance. If you call in real crimes, you are making them look bad, and because you know something about crimes in your neighborhood, you become a suspect. Neighborhood Watch captains should expect to be treated with suspicion, maybe even followed by cops for miles and miles (They have your cell phone number!). You might even have a surveillance van hang around your home. Nowadays I see nothing.
August 21st, 2013 at 4:20 pm
Mainly because police who actually want to do their duty are about 5% of the total now, it seems. The rest want to get paid for driving around, eating pizza, and shooting dogs.