Police text couple asking them to investigate a burglary themselves

This is us.........we were the ones that this happened to, I am still totally gobsmacked that this happened to anyone, let alone us!!

Makes me wonder why we have a police force more than anything.

Worrying message being sent to the criminals of the world.

Then what? The burgler calls the police?
"Hello. I'm afraid that I've done a remarkably terrible thing earlier by breaking into somone's shed and taking a few items that, clearly, did not belong to me. I feel just awful about it and wish to turn myself in. Recently learning how thinly spread you are, what time would be best for me to remove myself from society and pay for my guilty deeds? Alas, I was hoping to get a real officer instead of this recording so, my name, phone number and address is..."
Sheesh!

Well, this doesn't seem entirely unresonable.

The police got a call for someone stating they have seen suspicious activity -- now from the police's point of view this was not a call from someone actually being robbed, but rather someone claiming to see something that appeared to be a robbery in progress. Actually, the crime was already over and the criminals already fled by the time they called according to the article.

Now if you only have X number of officers and have Y number of crimes occuring you do need to prioritize. This seems resonable. We can't afford to have 1,000 officers on duty and just standing around in case there is a major uptick in criminal activity on any given occassion -- so, yeah, every once in awhile there may be more happening then there are officers available.

And in those situations you wouldn't want to divert officers en route to an assualt in progress to investigate a phone tip from a neighbor regarding a possible burglary.

And to be fair they didn't say go hunt down the alleged (at the time its possible the caller, from the police's point of view, may have mistaken what was occuring at the neighbors home as a robbery when it might not have been) criminals. They just asked for more information, such as what was stolen and where from.

I think it's revealing the police asked: where?

Did the caller give an address when he originally called?

Agreed that it was odd to send a text message, but from a certain point of view not sending out a squad car to investigate a tip phoned in by a neighbor regarding a possible petty larceny AFTER the robbers had already fled is kind of understandable (imho). Escpecially if you're short staffed at the moment.

One last thing....it's also possible that the message (byt the time it got to the responding officer) was a little confused.

It's possible, maybe even likely, that the officer who got the incoming call notice from the Sargents desk thought the person calling was saying that THEY were the ones robbed.

Now if this was the case and the officer had thought the couple was describing a burglary in their own home....then it wouldn't seem that odd to ask "What exactly did they take and where from?"

If you were calling the police to report a burglary in your own home isn't that exactly what they would ask?

I totally agree to a certain point, in that it may have been pointless, I mainly told my husband to call as we were not certain if he gained enterance- stole anything- hurt anyone-

Not only that but had someone reprted it the next day we could have backed it up....hence the call...........whats totally laughable is the message itself...........Why would we want to phone back with more info..........at 6am??

Guns don't kill people, cops who send untrained civilians into dangerous situations kill people.

I can't believe they didn't even call, and sent a text, though it's worrying enough that they weren't able to come round to the site of the burglary. Sends a very dangerous message to criminals that they can get away with such things because the police are too busy to deal with urgent calls...

disturbing.... guess that's why we have the right to bear arms...

They (the police) were probably too busy shaking down some law abiding citizens.....

Sounds like they are promoting vigilanteism....

Ride on!

It's the new, Please Hold.

well criminals already know they can get away with things like this otherwise they wouldnt do it.

but yea i do think its getting a little out of context here it is more about the police sending a txt, it is a little informal, but perhaps it is because it was by that time 6am, and they felt a phonecall would be disruptive to the household trying to sleep ?

Man these motherfuckers dont give a shit, everyone is out for theirs, cops too, they telling people, fuck you save your self and all we are having is more good cops being laid off, this type of shit you will just be seeing more of.

Don't feel too bad. I bought a house in a nice established QUIET subdivision. After a month of enjoying the peace and quiet, school was out. Since the beginning of summer until school started this week the neighborhood kids have enjoyed riding their atv's all hours of the night and day. Inside the city limits, unauthorized motor vehicle, minors, vandalism and trespassing. What did the local law enforcement do about this you ask? Nothing. Speed through town......14 cops on 1 impala with dark windows. TO SERVE AND PROTECT..........their asses!

They provbably had more important things to deal with than a poxy garden shed being broken into. Calls have to be prioritised, and this would come fairly close to the bottom of the list. Poor little dears, I bet they were shaking in their little bedroom slippers!

This story has been blown way out of proportion
'Having seen a man break into next doors shed, steal some stuff, then escape over the fence'
Actually if you read the original story the couple didn't
SEE ANYTHING they heard a bang and saw someone running around and people seem to be ignoring the fact that NO crime was actually committed here