Saturday, October 01, 2005
Regina's Finest
Some days, I really admire police officers, especially their trained ability to adapt the manipulative techniques of criminals to the purposes of good. Other days, they frustrate me and I think that cops are just the hired goons of society. Last Monday was such a day.
Our next-door neighbour came around with the shocking news that their new Jeep had been stolen from in front of their house. It seemed as though it was a pretty sophisticated theft, since there was no evidence of broken glass and the vehicle had an alarm system which must have been disabled.
The neighbour was going door to door asking if anyone had seen or heard anything. This bothered me right off the bat. For most middle class families, a vehicle is likely the single most valuable moveable object they own, yet the police who are supposed to look after such things are too damn busy to investigate, although they still seem to have plenty of time for speed-traps and what-not.
The icing on the cake was that the neighbour told us that the police had a working theory. The officer who responded to the call theorized that perhaps a drunk Indian had come around looking for a free ride back to the reserve.
Well, first of all, our neighbourhood is about 10 blocks away from any bar. We are also probably a couple of miles or more away from the terribly impoverished neighbourhoods where most of the city's native people live. The few native families in our area are just as middle-class and bourgeois as the rest of us.
But the truly bizarre part of this theory is that the officer actually seemed to think is was possible for a heavily intoxicated individual to disarm an alarm system and open the door without forced entry.
Not exactly CSI material, is it?
And just for good measure, my neighbour happens to be Metis. I see a sensitivity class in your future, corporal!
posted by Mentok @ 10:37 a.m.,
2 Comments:
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At 7:31 a.m.,
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It's not just Regina, my good man. Saskatoon police are just as bad. They show an unwillingness to do anything more than take a report and issue a statement to the insurance company. A guy I work with had his house broken into and a lot of stuff stolen. When the police came, they took a report of what was missing and were on their way out when my buddy's wife asked if they were going to take any fingerprints. "This isn't CSI" was the response. Maybe not, but it is your job, ya slackass.
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At 4:33 p.m.,
NL-ExPatriate said...
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Just consider yourself lucky that the vehichle was in good working order because if the crook injured himself because it wasn't you could have be sued!
That poor kid from home alone will be paying forever LOL!
