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Jimmy_kong253 t1_j7utwa4 wrote

Yeah it takes a lot of patience and arm twisting to get a police report on much of anything nowadays. Had my sister's scooters stolen and it was insured the company wanted a police report and you would have thought I was asking the police to give me their first borns

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Tatar_Kulchik t1_j7v2sc1 wrote

I sometimes hear 'everyone hates the police unti you need them'

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FOr me it was more like 'I was fine with the police until I needed them and then realised how lazy and incompetent they are'

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Oisschez t1_j7wk28a wrote

So true, I hated the police before. I had an identity theft so had to file a police report. Hated them event more after they came into my apartment, started yelling at each other about unrelated BS, and then constantly interrupt me so I can barely get a word in edgewise.

That day I learned cops are called pigs because they both have the intelligence of 7 year olds

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murgurdurth t1_j7v4mjd wrote

I went to the local station to turn in a nice DSLR camera I found on a park bench. Clearly lost, it was next to me for over an hour. The guy behind the desk couldn't be bothered to do the paperwork until I insisted but not before he was like "bro I would have just kept it if I was you"

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goodiereddits t1_j7va98i wrote

When second-nature civil asset forfeiture matures to first-nature thievery.

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SolutionRelative4586 t1_j7vcjr7 wrote

Or maybe that's just the kind of person that becomes a police officer these days....

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Lima_Bean_Jean t1_j7xdg5n wrote

High school graduates who get six months of training.

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CaroleBaskinsBurner t1_j80lk4y wrote

Believe it or not, you actually have to have at least 60 college credits to become an NYPD officer (unless you're ex-military). So most cops you see around have gotten at least halfway to a bachelor's degree.

Which probably says a lot about higher education in this country.

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QueenOfKarnaca t1_j8088qm wrote

Bro I thought it was bad when lost and found on a college campus told me to keep some beats I found… yikes!

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Crimsonwolf1445 t1_j84ooj5 wrote

Found property with no listed owner will sit in a warehouse forgotten for decades. It will never get back to its true owner. Dont know why he was being such a dick about a voucher though. Its not that much work

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TonyzTone t1_j7v7tuv wrote

I had an upstairs neighbor in a previous address terrorizing me. Legit would blame my roommate and I for smoking even when we weren't there. He did things like super glue our locks, pour bleach from his apartment into ours, slash the tires of our cars.

Aside from the landlord who "couldn't do anything" (side note: pretty sure they were in cahoots with each other to increase turnover on a rent stabilized unit), the police literally looked at a video of him gluing our locks and said "we can't do anything."

I hate the world.

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Sagafreyja t1_j7wsbbb wrote

Police wouldn't take my report on a hospital worker copying my debit card and spending 2000 on ubers while I was stuck in the hospital for a month and they had my personal effects.

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newengineerhere t1_j7vpr32 wrote

I was rear-ended on the highway and an off-duty officer was a few cars behind me. He rushed to make sure everyone was okay and stayed with us until highway patrol and ambulances came. I guess it really depends on the cop you get.

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Jimmy_kong253 t1_j7wmrzh wrote

I mean of course there's good and bad in every profession but with police even if the good cops tried to make a change in regards to a bad cop historically their fellow rank and file isolates and pushes them out for doing so.. the issue with police in general

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bklynbiker2020 t1_j7z1y5p wrote

>Had my sister's scooters stolen

Why did you have it stolen? for the insurance money?

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Crimsonwolf1445 t1_j84oxap wrote

Depending on the value of the bike it would be considered a major crime and would have to be reported and investigated at the scene. Not the type of thing that can just be banged out on the fly at a precinct in a few minutes. The delayed reporting also makes things more tedious.

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