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"It’s tough that the Tulsa Police Department can’t get enough budget and manpower. But they avoid paperwork and investigation like a vampire avoids garlic and it’s hurting the rest of us. I also suspect that it’s coming back on them and affecting their murder clearance rate, because people don’t trust them to look out after the small guy if the small guy steps up to help. Or asks for help.
Say you get hit by some unlicensed, uninsured, hit and run bum. Of course you can’t get all the needed information right away. The bum hit and ran. But will the TPD help? They have a dozen excuses why not. They didn’t see it. There weren’t any witnesses. The bum and vehicle aren’t there. The city attorneys won’t prosecute. It’s not policy to investigate such minor occurrences. Or maybe it happened on private property. Even if you collect evidence, identify the vehicle and owner or driver, find a witness that heard the bum bragging that he hit someone, and find out that the bum doesn’t even have a license or insurance like you do, still no help from the TPD. And because you can’t afford the deductible on your insurance and the bum doesn’t have any, the bum gets off free and clear to do his damage over and over again. Until someone gets hurt and possibly the State Police investigate.
Say someone breaks into your home, steals just a few things and commits malicious mischief to confuse things. It works on the TPD. The responding Officer will likely find some way to blame you for the results and claim that it doesn’t look like a crime just to avoid filling out a report. Even if you call an Officer back when you get more information that shows a break-in and a likely suspect, still no help. Maybe a budding juvenile criminal gets the idea that he’s immune. Maybe he is. Nor can you get any help if you feel that your neighbors or yourself are threatened and mistreated. TPD will not investigate until there is a dead body.
Or say someone makes a false complaint about you. If the liar has more social, political or business clout than you do, you can get arrested and incarcerated without any investigation. The TPD do not feel obliged to interview your coworkers, neighbors and/or friends and determine any other circumstances besides those presented to them by the liar.
This accumulates such a feeling of contempt and distrust towards the TPD that many have given up on them. Why cooperate with the SOB that yesterday wouldn’t address your complaint, or enforced a false complaint against you? Then when the TPD does get a dead body that they feel is worth their time to investigate, they just can’t understand the “don’t snitch mentality”.
Maybe it’s not about snitching. Maybe it’s about not being able or allowed by the TPD itself to trust a law enforcement agency that doesn’t think you are worth its time to protect and serve. Maybe that’s why the murder rate is so high.
– ain’t lying ‘bout that "
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