Posted on 12/02/2008 5:30:50 PM PST by edcoil
Excellent idea and an obvious solution.
It once took a police department barely ten minutes away almost an hour to respond to a fight at my apartment complex.
It seems the cops in Amarillo, Texas arrest the complainants more than the perpetrators. I deal with them all the time. Tonight, it’s a 75 year old Sudanese refugee who was hit in the head with a large rock by hispanic gang-bangers yelling at her to go back to Africa. Her daughter called the police and the police arrested her daughter for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon because she had a curtain rod in her hand. No real attempt was ever made to find those who assaulted the elderly immigrant. (who by the way is here legally).
A local woman who has lived in her home for almost 40 years was threatened with death by her new next door neighbor because the neighbor wanted to add 2 feet of sheet metal to the top of her redwood fence and she wouldn’t let him. The neighbor & his wife practice witchcraft & wanted the fence raised so they could perform rituals around illegal fires in the backyard. The neighbor then killed her two cats and poisoned all of her vegetation on the side of the yard where they share a property line in retaliation for her refusal to let him alter her fence. Later, he assaulted her husband throwing a hubcap at him and hitting him in the stomach, called her very explicit names & threatened to kill her. The woman called the police and was told if they have to come back out there; she & her husband would both be going to jail; that SHE needs to do something to resolve this issue. The police never spoke to the neighbor.
I could repeat many stories. Is it burnout or pure laziness and corruption? What is a person to do?
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