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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.   [/quote]

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