From: ahk@chinet.com

Peter Schleifer  wrote:
>On Sat, 02 Aug 2014 14:03:07 -0500, Stephen Sprunk  wrote:

>>I don't know how it is in NYC, but in Dallas, if you report a crime,
>>they'll try to discourage you from filing a report (or even refuse to
>>accept it), and if you do manage to get one filed, they'll tell you that
>>they're so overworked that nobody will do anything about it.  I can't
>>believe that such a scenario has no impact on crime rates.

>The reported rate of major crime is one of the metrics by which a
>precinct commander's job performance is measured in NYC.  So there is
>an incentive to discourage or downgrade a crime report.  Some
>commanders have been disciplined for blatant violations, such as
>altering a robbery report to say 'lost wallet'.

>I had a credit card compromised 5 years ago.  After the bank notified
>me of the fraudulent activity I stopped by the local precinct to
>report it - since if was likely a case of the card being cloned at a
>restaurant I thought the authorities would be interested in seeing if
>they could find a common location with other possible reports.  They
>really weren't interested and insisted on a notarized affidavit before
>they would even take any information,  Since I had no financial loss
>it wasn't worth my time to follow-up.

>There was a case several years ago where the police report said
>something like 'apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, weapon not
>found'

That's the worst case of suicide I've ever heard!

--- SoupGate/W32 v1.03
 * Origin: LiveWire BBS -=*=- UseNet FTN Gateway (1:2320/1)