Calling the police over potholes, garage doors being open and stray dogs? How about a report on how many of those calls actually resulting in police action.
Do note that these calls go back to 2004 and several of the pages are for a single call.
Neighborhood watch ain't exactly glamorous. (FTR, I don't participate in our formal NW program. Too many irons in the fire, plus I do enough watching & calling on the weekends & evenings from my street corner working on the house, autos, etc.)
I make several calls for stray dogs alone per year. Our house has some sort of, "Hi, I'm a dog and I'm lost. I bet you'll take care of me and find my owners <wags tail>." magnetism going on.
But, my big thing is calling on
stop sign runners. (I live on a corner, I can judge by ear if an auto is going to run the sucker or hammer the brakes at the last second.) If I can get the tag I call it in. I've probably called in more of those than Zimmerman made calls of all sorts since 2004. The only way to get police to come on out & do anything is be a pain in the tuckus and call in a whole lot. They'll plant a cop near the corner and he'll spend his shift reeling them in. The way I know my cop shop is not just a revenue generator but an actual peace-keeping organization is because they don't camp out there more often. Those tickets run $200 a pop and don't take long to write up. Open & shut case with dash cam.You'd think a stop sign inside a school zone in front of a school would get soem respect, but not hardly.
I'm pissed because it doesn't seem like the police did any investigation, they just took Zimmerman's word on what happened.
Just because Al Sharpton and the Chorus of Ignorance says so, don;t necessarily make it so.
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/state/witness-martin-attacked-zimmerman-03232012What Sanford Police investigators have in the folder, they put together on the killing of Trayvon Martin few know about.
The file now sits in the hands of the state attorney. Now that file is just weeks away from being opened to a grand jury.
It shows more now about why police believed that night that George Zimmerman shouldn't have gone to jail.
In my home state, EVERY homicide, no matter how unquestionably correct, goes to the grand jury. If you get no-billed, you can;t be sued civally or some such.
