Why do you dislike law enforcement?

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I love the Capitol Hill police -- or at least those who tried to protect Congress instead of opening the gates and looking the other way. I love my sweet, non-racist cousin who is a cop in Texas. There are probably many good people doing a job that, as another poster said, I don't want to do.

But I've twice had my credit cards stolen from me (in places where there were cameras) and then used to spend thousands of dollars (in places where there were cameras). Police took the reports and did nothing. I checked with the grocery store three days after the first incident and learned that the police even asked for the video footage.

Soon after the first incident, I went onto my neighborhood listserv in Great Falls. One of my neighbors was talking about what happened to me because I had just moved into the neighborhood and she felt sorry for me. A representative of the police department actually joined the chat to blame me for stepping away from my purse in my shopping cart. First of all, victim blaming. Second of all, BS because my baby was in that cart and I would never have walked away from him. Third of all, why are you commenting publicly about this to deflect responsibility -- maybe you had a personal interest? I found out there there was a rash of similar thefts in the area all within an hour of mine, so it was a coordinated effort. I think the local police were in on it because no arrests were ever made.

The second incident took place at a school very well respected on DCUM. Four of us (all employees) had our wallets stolen. There was a camera at the entrance to the building. Our credit cards were all used first at a gas station for $1 (to check that they were active) and then for huge amounts at Target. How hard would it have been to find the criminals?

So, yeah, I no longer donate when I get those fundraiser calls. I realized through these experiences that some of them are just as corrupt as the people that are being charged.

Texas cops? Now those are some cowboy SOBs. They can shoot people in the back.

Who gets their credit cards stolen once let alone twice! I love the anecdote about the police being involved in a coordinated credit card theft operation. That was the icing on this silly cake. Were the thieves wearing hoods and masks? If you can’t identify someone that makes them hard to arrest. Maybe you should switch to Apple Pay.

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Anonymous wrote:This black-and-white thinking is so MAGA. Can't make it perfect, so no choice but to let the status quo run to its worst impulses. All or nothing. Free rein for police bullies, or no police at all.

Where's the nuance? Where's the interest in incremental improvement? Are you that incapable of critical thought?

Please explain to us the nuance in the Democrat platform plank: abolish ICE.

I've never heard a democrat make a move to abolish ICE. I hear calls for due process, which are rejected out of hand by trump toadies. I hear pleas for compassion and decency in the face of human suffering, which get sneers and actual laughs from MAGA. I hear proposals that get shot down with wild edgecase thinking, no research or testing needed.

Why won't the right TRY anything new?? Why is the default position to dehumanize vulnerable people? Case in point, walking to Whole Foods on P St the other day with my kids.
Cops have a man in cuffs.
Their cruiser is in an alley, but really parked directly across the sidewalk.
The man is slumped against the cruiser, obviously dehydrated, not obviously inebriated, or raving, or fighting. Just restrained and passive. I only have field medical training, but it was clear as could be that the man needed IV fluids.
And the four cops were standing around joking with each other, ignoring him, forcing pedestrians to walk into the street, with a man on display and suffering. They were still there, still joshing around, still blocking the sidewalk, when we walked back 20 or so minutes later. But now they had smoothies.

If they had probable cause, why hadn't they taken him in for processing? Why hadn't they put him in the car, at least? Why didn't they move the car back 10 feet to clear the sidewalk? There was nothing behind it in the alley.

I see this kind of thing ALL THE TIME. Casual low-level cruelty and arrogance when so many other avenues are open.

All pedantry aside, this is why I dislike law enforcement.

How do you diagnose dehydration from 10 feet in the few seconds it took to pass the alley? Maybe the person wasn’t drunk. Perhaps he exposed himself to kids like yours. None of us will ever know. The man in cuffs could have asked for a supervisor. That’s the new Google U law degree tactic for people in handcuffs. I’m certain police officers don’t carry IV fluids. Maybe they didn’t put him in the car because he deficated on himself.

This is why I dislike law enforcement. I'm not going to respond to your sea lioning because I know what I saw, and you weren't there, and I see it ALL THE TIME. And having people like you here to make endless knee-jerk excuses for them, even when you know nothing of the facts of a case, will ensure that nothing ever gets better, that vulnerable people continue to face heightened risk at the hands of LE. They know you have their back, whether they shoot a sleeping man in his bed, or kneel on a guy's neck til he suffocates, or beat a kid bloody for swiping a bag of chips.

Why can't we expect them to do their job-- enforce laws-- with any measure of proportionality? Because they, and people like you, like cruelty. You see it as people beneath you getting what they deserve, a reassertion of your rightful place in the hierarchy, and also as entertainment. You have no compassion, no larger sense of human rights.

I think a lot about that New York Times reporter who died, here in DC, of a head injury, because he was found disoriented after having been attacked and the cops just laughed him off as drunk John Doe. Aggressive bully cops maim and kill people. Arrogant, uncaring cops let people die. That is why I dislike cops.

Explain the facts of the man’s case that was in cuffs. What you saw was viewed through a biased lens. You don’t like police. That’s your right. What you are incapable of is diagnosing dehydration at a glance or knowing anything about the circumstances surrounding the man in cuffs. It’s all assumptions.

I'm actually really good at it. I worked in humanitarian assistance in Africa and the Middle East for several years, and saw it a lot. The newly arrived HAWs are bad at keeping up with their hydration needs.

But that's beside the point. The point is that I saw someone in nonspecific distress, and that distress was being caused-- or at the very least unalleviated-- by police officers, who were having a high old time drinking smoothies, forcing pedestrians into the street, and ignoring the man wheezing and listing on the ground next to their car. And I see this frequently. Keeping detainees on display rather than moving along with the process. I'm sure in your mind each and every one of those cases has an ironclad reason for doing so. But that's because you lack compassion, and also imagination for how it could be better. The status quo is working for you, so fcuk everyone else.

Police officers aren’t paramedics. They have limited medical knowledge. The only distress they can successfully alleviate is an opiod overdose. If you’re dead they can do CPR. If you’re bleeding out or have a sucking chest wound they can delay death until EMS arrives. Did you stick around to see if an ambulance showed up? Do you think people in cuffs prefer to be stuffed in the cramped backseat of a police car? Just because you feel bad for people in handcuffs doesn’t mean the officers have done anything wrong.

Seriously just go away and let the adults talk. Anyone with real life experience beyond a sheltered and privileged life would know better than almost everything you just wrote.

This topic has exposed the nonsense “adults” here believe about law enforcement.

[Anonymous]

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I like some police. I dislike others. They’re people right?

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When people look at a race, religion, or ethnic group, they often see a small percentage that they don’t like. When they generalize that feeling & condemn ALL members of that group, it is called bigotry. That is exactly what many of you are doing with police officers.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I love the Capitol Hill police -- or at least those who tried to protect Congress instead of opening the gates and looking the other way. I love my sweet, non-racist cousin who is a cop in Texas. There are probably many good people doing a job that, as another poster said, I don't want to do.

But I've twice had my credit cards stolen from me (in places where there were cameras) and then used to spend thousands of dollars (in places where there were cameras). Police took the reports and did nothing. I checked with the grocery store three days after the first incident and learned that the police even asked for the video footage.

Soon after the first incident, I went onto my neighborhood listserv in Great Falls. One of my neighbors was talking about what happened to me because I had just moved into the neighborhood and she felt sorry for me. A representative of the police department actually joined the chat to blame me for stepping away from my purse in my shopping cart. First of all, victim blaming. Second of all, BS because my baby was in that cart and I would never have walked away from him. Third of all, why are you commenting publicly about this to deflect responsibility -- maybe you had a personal interest? I found out there there was a rash of similar thefts in the area all within an hour of mine, so it was a coordinated effort. I think the local police were in on it because no arrests were ever made.

The second incident took place at a school very well respected on DCUM. Four of us (all employees) had our wallets stolen. There was a camera at the entrance to the building. Our credit cards were all used first at a gas station for $1 (to check that they were active) and then for huge amounts at Target. How hard would it have been to find the criminals?

So, yeah, I no longer donate when I get those fundraiser calls. I realized through these experiences that some of them are just as corrupt as the people that are being charged.

Texas cops? Now those are some cowboy SOBs. They can shoot people in the back.

Who gets their credit cards stolen once let alone twice! I love the anecdote about the police being involved in a coordinated credit card theft operation. That was the icing on this silly cake. Were the thieves wearing hoods and masks? If you can’t identify someone that makes them hard to arrest. Maybe you should switch to Apple Pay.

Wait a minute - are you blaming me for having my credit cards stolen? Like it's my fault somehow? Once my wallet was stolen from my purse in a grocery store. Once from my desk in an office in a school that charges $55K for your child to attend. So, you'd kind of think it was safe. And yes, stores in the same shopping area reported that there were multiple thefts within the same hour. And the police were publicly blaming the victims (as you're doing) instead of finding the thieves. What motive would they have for that? As for masks, what are you talking about? If the thieves had been wearing masks walking around a grocery store, someone would have noticed. Their faces would have been visible on the store's video if the police had just asked them for it. You may not find all that suspicious. But at the very least, it's lazy, incompetent police work. And at the most, they didn't find the thieves because they had some reason not to look.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I love the Capitol Hill police -- or at least those who tried to protect Congress instead of opening the gates and looking the other way. I love my sweet, non-racist cousin who is a cop in Texas. There are probably many good people doing a job that, as another poster said, I don't want to do.

But I've twice had my credit cards stolen from me (in places where there were cameras) and then used to spend thousands of dollars (in places where there were cameras). Police took the reports and did nothing. I checked with the grocery store three days after the first incident and learned that the police even asked for the video footage.

Soon after the first incident, I went onto my neighborhood listserv in Great Falls. One of my neighbors was talking about what happened to me because I had just moved into the neighborhood and she felt sorry for me. A representative of the police department actually joined the chat to blame me for stepping away from my purse in my shopping cart. First of all, victim blaming. Second of all, BS because my baby was in that cart and I would never have walked away from him. Third of all, why are you commenting publicly about this to deflect responsibility -- maybe you had a personal interest? I found out there there was a rash of similar thefts in the area all within an hour of mine, so it was a coordinated effort. I think the local police were in on it because no arrests were ever made.

The second incident took place at a school very well respected on DCUM. Four of us (all employees) had our wallets stolen. There was a camera at the entrance to the building. Our credit cards were all used first at a gas station for $1 (to check that they were active) and then for huge amounts at Target. How hard would it have been to find the criminals?

So, yeah, I no longer donate when I get those fundraiser calls. I realized through these experiences that some of them are just as corrupt as the people that are being charged.

Texas cops? Now those are some cowboy SOBs. They can shoot people in the back.

Who gets their credit cards stolen once let alone twice! I love the anecdote about the police being involved in a coordinated credit card theft operation. That was the icing on this silly cake. Were the thieves wearing hoods and masks? If you can’t identify someone that makes them hard to arrest. Maybe you should switch to Apple Pay.

Get past your Texas bias. Three of the top 10 largest cities in the country are in Texas. These "cowboy" police are hardly riding horses, and they're no different from DC police. My cousin is a great guy who knows everyone in his neighborhood "beat."

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I don't really like the sting operations. I feel like it's instigating crime and has the opposite effect of what it's intended to do. It also takes away resources from other crimes.

I also don't like how everything in the criminal justice system revolves around the perpetrator and not the victims. Victims sometimes get safety from a person for some time and sometimes monetary compensation, but many get nothing at all even if the perpetrator is found guilty.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I love the Capitol Hill police -- or at least those who tried to protect Congress instead of opening the gates and looking the other way. I love my sweet, non-racist cousin who is a cop in Texas. There are probably many good people doing a job that, as another poster said, I don't want to do.

But I've twice had my credit cards stolen from me (in places where there were cameras) and then used to spend thousands of dollars (in places where there were cameras). Police took the reports and did nothing. I checked with the grocery store three days after the first incident and learned that the police even asked for the video footage.

Soon after the first incident, I went onto my neighborhood listserv in Great Falls. One of my neighbors was talking about what happened to me because I had just moved into the neighborhood and she felt sorry for me. A representative of the police department actually joined the chat to blame me for stepping away from my purse in my shopping cart. First of all, victim blaming. Second of all, BS because my baby was in that cart and I would never have walked away from him. Third of all, why are you commenting publicly about this to deflect responsibility -- maybe you had a personal interest? I found out there there was a rash of similar thefts in the area all within an hour of mine, so it was a coordinated effort. I think the local police were in on it because no arrests were ever made.

The second incident took place at a school very well respected on DCUM. Four of us (all employees) had our wallets stolen. There was a camera at the entrance to the building. Our credit cards were all used first at a gas station for $1 (to check that they were active) and then for huge amounts at Target. How hard would it have been to find the criminals?

So, yeah, I no longer donate when I get those fundraiser calls. I realized through these experiences that some of them are just as corrupt as the people that are being charged.

Texas cops? Now those are some cowboy SOBs. They can shoot people in the back.

Who gets their credit cards stolen once let alone twice! I love the anecdote about the police being involved in a coordinated credit card theft operation. That was the icing on this silly cake. Were the thieves wearing hoods and masks? If you can’t identify someone that makes them hard to arrest. Maybe you should switch to Apple Pay.

Wait a minute - are you blaming me for having my credit cards stolen? Like it's my fault somehow? Once my wallet was stolen from my purse in a grocery store. Once from my desk in an office in a school that charges $55K for your child to attend. So, you'd kind of think it was safe. And yes, stores in the same shopping area reported that there were multiple thefts within the same hour. And the police were publicly blaming the victims (as you're doing) instead of finding the thieves. What motive would they have for that? As for masks, what are you talking about? If the thieves had been wearing masks walking around a grocery store, someone would have noticed. Their faces would have been visible on the store's video if the police had just asked them for it. You may not find all that suspicious. But at the very least, it's lazy, incompetent police work. And at the most, they didn't find the thieves because they had some reason not to look.

If you left your credit cards unattended that’s your fault. My credit cards have been all over the world in my 60 years and they’ve never been stolen because I’m not an easy mark. Your fancy pants school apparently admits or employs thieves. Good luck with that. Please name the school so relatives can avoid it.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I love the Capitol Hill police -- or at least those who tried to protect Congress instead of opening the gates and looking the other way. I love my sweet, non-racist cousin who is a cop in Texas. There are probably many good people doing a job that, as another poster said, I don't want to do.

But I've twice had my credit cards stolen from me (in places where there were cameras) and then used to spend thousands of dollars (in places where there were cameras). Police took the reports and did nothing. I checked with the grocery store three days after the first incident and learned that the police even asked for the video footage.

Soon after the first incident, I went onto my neighborhood listserv in Great Falls. One of my neighbors was talking about what happened to me because I had just moved into the neighborhood and she felt sorry for me. A representative of the police department actually joined the chat to blame me for stepping away from my purse in my shopping cart. First of all, victim blaming. Second of all, BS because my baby was in that cart and I would never have walked away from him. Third of all, why are you commenting publicly about this to deflect responsibility -- maybe you had a personal interest? I found out there there was a rash of similar thefts in the area all within an hour of mine, so it was a coordinated effort. I think the local police were in on it because no arrests were ever made.

The second incident took place at a school very well respected on DCUM. Four of us (all employees) had our wallets stolen. There was a camera at the entrance to the building. Our credit cards were all used first at a gas station for $1 (to check that they were active) and then for huge amounts at Target. How hard would it have been to find the criminals?

So, yeah, I no longer donate when I get those fundraiser calls. I realized through these experiences that some of them are just as corrupt as the people that are being charged.

Texas cops? Now those are some cowboy SOBs. They can shoot people in the back.

Who gets their credit cards stolen once let alone twice! I love the anecdote about the police being involved in a coordinated credit card theft operation. That was the icing on this silly cake. Were the thieves wearing hoods and masks? If you can’t identify someone that makes them hard to arrest. Maybe you should switch to Apple Pay.

Get past your Texas bias. Three of the top 10 largest cities in the country are in Texas. These "cowboy" police are hardly riding horses, and they're no different from DC police. My cousin is a great guy who knows everyone in his neighborhood "beat."

I guarantee a DMV cop would be amazed by the pursuit policy, use of force continuum and overall general orders in Texas. It’s a different world.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I love the Capitol Hill police -- or at least those who tried to protect Congress instead of opening the gates and looking the other way. I love my sweet, non-racist cousin who is a cop in Texas. There are probably many good people doing a job that, as another poster said, I don't want to do.

But I've twice had my credit cards stolen from me (in places where there were cameras) and then used to spend thousands of dollars (in places where there were cameras). Police took the reports and did nothing. I checked with the grocery store three days after the first incident and learned that the police even asked for the video footage.

Soon after the first incident, I went onto my neighborhood listserv in Great Falls. One of my neighbors was talking about what happened to me because I had just moved into the neighborhood and she felt sorry for me. A representative of the police department actually joined the chat to blame me for stepping away from my purse in my shopping cart. First of all, victim blaming. Second of all, BS because my baby was in that cart and I would never have walked away from him. Third of all, why are you commenting publicly about this to deflect responsibility -- maybe you had a personal interest? I found out there there was a rash of similar thefts in the area all within an hour of mine, so it was a coordinated effort. I think the local police were in on it because no arrests were ever made.

The second incident took place at a school very well respected on DCUM. Four of us (all employees) had our wallets stolen. There was a camera at the entrance to the building. Our credit cards were all used first at a gas station for $1 (to check that they were active) and then for huge amounts at Target. How hard would it have been to find the criminals?

So, yeah, I no longer donate when I get those fundraiser calls. I realized through these experiences that some of them are just as corrupt as the people that are being charged.

Texas cops? Now those are some cowboy SOBs. They can shoot people in the back.

Who gets their credit cards stolen once let alone twice! I love the anecdote about the police being involved in a coordinated credit card theft operation. That was the icing on this silly cake. Were the thieves wearing hoods and masks? If you can’t identify someone that makes them hard to arrest. Maybe you should switch to Apple Pay.

Wait a minute - are you blaming me for having my credit cards stolen? Like it's my fault somehow? Once my wallet was stolen from my purse in a grocery store. Once from my desk in an office in a school that charges $55K for your child to attend. So, you'd kind of think it was safe. And yes, stores in the same shopping area reported that there were multiple thefts within the same hour. And the police were publicly blaming the victims (as you're doing) instead of finding the thieves. What motive would they have for that? As for masks, what are you talking about? If the thieves had been wearing masks walking around a grocery store, someone would have noticed. Their faces would have been visible on the store's video if the police had just asked them for it. You may not find all that suspicious. But at the very least, it's lazy, incompetent police work. And at the most, they didn't find the thieves because they had some reason not to look.

If you left your credit cards unattended that’s your fault. My credit cards have been all over the world in my 60 years and they’ve never been stolen because I’m not an easy mark. Your fancy pants school apparently admits or employs thieves. Good luck with that. Please name the school so relatives can avoid it.

Again. It's my fault a crime was committed against me. Let me ask you. Do you carry your credit cards around your office all day? Or do you put your purse in your desk drawer like every other normal woman does? You are victim blaming. Shame on you.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I love the Capitol Hill police -- or at least those who tried to protect Congress instead of opening the gates and looking the other way. I love my sweet, non-racist cousin who is a cop in Texas. There are probably many good people doing a job that, as another poster said, I don't want to do.

But I've twice had my credit cards stolen from me (in places where there were cameras) and then used to spend thousands of dollars (in places where there were cameras). Police took the reports and did nothing. I checked with the grocery store three days after the first incident and learned that the police even asked for the video footage.

Soon after the first incident, I went onto my neighborhood listserv in Great Falls. One of my neighbors was talking about what happened to me because I had just moved into the neighborhood and she felt sorry for me. A representative of the police department actually joined the chat to blame me for stepping away from my purse in my shopping cart. First of all, victim blaming. Second of all, BS because my baby was in that cart and I would never have walked away from him. Third of all, why are you commenting publicly about this to deflect responsibility -- maybe you had a personal interest? I found out there there was a rash of similar thefts in the area all within an hour of mine, so it was a coordinated effort. I think the local police were in on it because no arrests were ever made.

The second incident took place at a school very well respected on DCUM. Four of us (all employees) had our wallets stolen. There was a camera at the entrance to the building. Our credit cards were all used first at a gas station for $1 (to check that they were active) and then for huge amounts at Target. How hard would it have been to find the criminals?

So, yeah, I no longer donate when I get those fundraiser calls. I realized through these experiences that some of them are just as corrupt as the people that are being charged.

Texas cops? Now those are some cowboy SOBs. They can shoot people in the back.

Who gets their credit cards stolen once let alone twice! I love the anecdote about the police being involved in a coordinated credit card theft operation. That was the icing on this silly cake. Were the thieves wearing hoods and masks? If you can’t identify someone that makes them hard to arrest. Maybe you should switch to Apple Pay.

Wait a minute - are you blaming me for having my credit cards stolen? Like it's my fault somehow? Once my wallet was stolen from my purse in a grocery store. Once from my desk in an office in a school that charges $55K for your child to attend. So, you'd kind of think it was safe. And yes, stores in the same shopping area reported that there were multiple thefts within the same hour. And the police were publicly blaming the victims (as you're doing) instead of finding the thieves. What motive would they have for that? As for masks, what are you talking about? If the thieves had been wearing masks walking around a grocery store, someone would have noticed. Their faces would have been visible on the store's video if the police had just asked them for it. You may not find all that suspicious. But at the very least, it's lazy, incompetent police work. And at the most, they didn't find the thieves because they had some reason not to look.

If you left your credit cards unattended that’s your fault. My credit cards have been all over the world in my 60 years and they’ve never been stolen because I’m not an easy mark. Your fancy pants school apparently admits or employs thieves. Good luck with that. Please name the school so relatives can avoid it.

Again. It's my fault a crime was committed against me. Let me ask you. Do you carry your credit cards around your office all day? Or do you put your purse in your desk drawer like every other normal woman does? You are victim blaming. Shame on you.

My desk locks. Your husband feels the same way I do. You probably leave your car unlocked. You really should take your school to task for allowing thieves inside.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I love the Capitol Hill police -- or at least those who tried to protect Congress instead of opening the gates and looking the other way. I love my sweet, non-racist cousin who is a cop in Texas. There are probably many good people doing a job that, as another poster said, I don't want to do.

But I've twice had my credit cards stolen from me (in places where there were cameras) and then used to spend thousands of dollars (in places where there were cameras). Police took the reports and did nothing. I checked with the grocery store three days after the first incident and learned that the police even asked for the video footage.

Soon after the first incident, I went onto my neighborhood listserv in Great Falls. One of my neighbors was talking about what happened to me because I had just moved into the neighborhood and she felt sorry for me. A representative of the police department actually joined the chat to blame me for stepping away from my purse in my shopping cart. First of all, victim blaming. Second of all, BS because my baby was in that cart and I would never have walked away from him. Third of all, why are you commenting publicly about this to deflect responsibility -- maybe you had a personal interest? I found out there there was a rash of similar thefts in the area all within an hour of mine, so it was a coordinated effort. I think the local police were in on it because no arrests were ever made.

The second incident took place at a school very well respected on DCUM. Four of us (all employees) had our wallets stolen. There was a camera at the entrance to the building. Our credit cards were all used first at a gas station for $1 (to check that they were active) and then for huge amounts at Target. How hard would it have been to find the criminals?

So, yeah, I no longer donate when I get those fundraiser calls. I realized through these experiences that some of them are just as corrupt as the people that are being charged.

Texas cops? Now those are some cowboy SOBs. They can shoot people in the back.

Who gets their credit cards stolen once let alone twice! I love the anecdote about the police being involved in a coordinated credit card theft operation. That was the icing on this silly cake. Were the thieves wearing hoods and masks? If you can’t identify someone that makes them hard to arrest. Maybe you should switch to Apple Pay.

Wait a minute - are you blaming me for having my credit cards stolen? Like it's my fault somehow? Once my wallet was stolen from my purse in a grocery store. Once from my desk in an office in a school that charges $55K for your child to attend. So, you'd kind of think it was safe. And yes, stores in the same shopping area reported that there were multiple thefts within the same hour. And the police were publicly blaming the victims (as you're doing) instead of finding the thieves. What motive would they have for that? As for masks, what are you talking about? If the thieves had been wearing masks walking around a grocery store, someone would have noticed. Their faces would have been visible on the store's video if the police had just asked them for it. You may not find all that suspicious. But at the very least, it's lazy, incompetent police work. And at the most, they didn't find the thieves because they had some reason not to look.

If you left your credit cards unattended that’s your fault. My credit cards have been all over the world in my 60 years and they’ve never been stolen because I’m not an easy mark. Your fancy pants school apparently admits or employs thieves. Good luck with that. Please name the school so relatives can avoid it.

Someone who calls a school "fancy pants" because of the tuition doesn't have relatives who can afford it, much less be admitted. The thief walked in through the front door, and you're right, they certainly tightened up security after this. It doesn't absolve the police of having to do their jobs. Which they did not do. And that's my answer to the original quesiton about why I dislike law enforcement. This should have been an easy one for them. If they couldn't solve it with cameras everywhere, what good are they?

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I love the Capitol Hill police -- or at least those who tried to protect Congress instead of opening the gates and looking the other way. I love my sweet, non-racist cousin who is a cop in Texas. There are probably many good people doing a job that, as another poster said, I don't want to do.

But I've twice had my credit cards stolen from me (in places where there were cameras) and then used to spend thousands of dollars (in places where there were cameras). Police took the reports and did nothing. I checked with the grocery store three days after the first incident and learned that the police even asked for the video footage.

Soon after the first incident, I went onto my neighborhood listserv in Great Falls. One of my neighbors was talking about what happened to me because I had just moved into the neighborhood and she felt sorry for me. A representative of the police department actually joined the chat to blame me for stepping away from my purse in my shopping cart. First of all, victim blaming. Second of all, BS because my baby was in that cart and I would never have walked away from him. Third of all, why are you commenting publicly about this to deflect responsibility -- maybe you had a personal interest? I found out there there was a rash of similar thefts in the area all within an hour of mine, so it was a coordinated effort. I think the local police were in on it because no arrests were ever made.

The second incident took place at a school very well respected on DCUM. Four of us (all employees) had our wallets stolen. There was a camera at the entrance to the building. Our credit cards were all used first at a gas station for $1 (to check that they were active) and then for huge amounts at Target. How hard would it have been to find the criminals?

So, yeah, I no longer donate when I get those fundraiser calls. I realized through these experiences that some of them are just as corrupt as the people that are being charged.

Texas cops? Now those are some cowboy SOBs. They can shoot people in the back.

Who gets their credit cards stolen once let alone twice! I love the anecdote about the police being involved in a coordinated credit card theft operation. That was the icing on this silly cake. Were the thieves wearing hoods and masks? If you can’t identify someone that makes them hard to arrest. Maybe you should switch to Apple Pay.

Wait a minute - are you blaming me for having my credit cards stolen? Like it's my fault somehow? Once my wallet was stolen from my purse in a grocery store. Once from my desk in an office in a school that charges $55K for your child to attend. So, you'd kind of think it was safe. And yes, stores in the same shopping area reported that there were multiple thefts within the same hour. And the police were publicly blaming the victims (as you're doing) instead of finding the thieves. What motive would they have for that? As for masks, what are you talking about? If the thieves had been wearing masks walking around a grocery store, someone would have noticed. Their faces would have been visible on the store's video if the police had just asked them for it. You may not find all that suspicious. But at the very least, it's lazy, incompetent police work. And at the most, they didn't find the thieves because they had some reason not to look.

If you left your credit cards unattended that’s your fault. My credit cards have been all over the world in my 60 years and they’ve never been stolen because I’m not an easy mark. Your fancy pants school apparently admits or employs thieves. Good luck with that. Please name the school so relatives can avoid it.

Someone who calls a school "fancy pants" because of the tuition doesn't have relatives who can afford it, much less be admitted. The thief walked in through the front door, and you're right, they certainly tightened up security after this. It doesn't absolve the police of having to do their jobs. Which they did not do. And that's my answer to the original quesiton about why I dislike law enforcement. This should have been an easy one for them. If they couldn't solve it with cameras everywhere, what good are they?

Who pays big money for a school where an active shooter could simply walk through an open door? They’re lucky it was only a thief. Talk about gross mismanagement and an utter lack of security protocols.

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This sounds like SFS.