Anonymous
Post 04/15/2015 15:19     Subject: Re:Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Three separate adults, on three separate occasions, thought something was not right and called the police when they saw the 2 kids on their own.

If this had happened just once, I could blow it off as a randomly paranoid person. But three different people? on three different occasions?

It's not a minor thing to call the police/911. It's going out of your way. Why did these three people do that?

Seems to me that for average people out there, it looked like the children were either in a potentially dangerous situation or possibly being neglected.

I for one am glad that we live in a community where strangers care enough about the situation to call the police. You know there are children out there who are neglected, or abused, the signs are there and no one does anything (Relisha Rudd and others). Sounds like the situation on Sunday could have been handled better, but I for one am not faulting the police officer. Somehow the kids are flagged in the system for him to contact CPS. What was he supposed to do, ignore that? Just return the kids to their home, not knowing why they'd been flagged by CPS? What if the kids were truly being neglected? (and maybe they are)


Maybe because the 10 year old is little. Poor kid. Growth hormones would get CPS off their case.


maybe they are vegan, the parents look like death
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2015 15:15     Subject: Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
If the police had stopped and asked two little kids if they were all right and then let them go on their way, and then something bad happened to the kids between there and home, would lots of people be posting here wondering why the police officer didn't make sure that two very young children made it safely home?
Would they wonder why a police officer who had had a chance to make a difference just let two little kids go walking down the street by themselves?


Why do people keep referring to a 6-year-old and a 10-year-old as "very young children" and to a 10-year-old as a "little kid"?

And if the police officer wanted to make sure that the children made it safely home, the best way to do that would be to drive the children home. But CPS didn't let the police officer do that.


I guess everything is relative. When your oldest kids are 18 or older or if you work with kids, you realize how very young 6 and 10 are.


Then what are preschool kids? Very, very young children? Tiny wee kids?
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2015 15:14     Subject: Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
If the police had stopped and asked two little kids if they were all right and then let them go on their way, and then something bad happened to the kids between there and home, would lots of people be posting here wondering why the police officer didn't make sure that two very young children made it safely home?
Would they wonder why a police officer who had had a chance to make a difference just let two little kids go walking down the street by themselves?


Why do people keep referring to a 6-year-old and a 10-year-old as "very young children" and to a 10-year-old as a "little kid"?

And if the police officer wanted to make sure that the children made it safely home, the best way to do that would be to drive the children home. But CPS didn't let the police officer do that.


I guess everything is relative. When your oldest kids are 18 or older or if you work with kids, you realize how very young 6 and 10 are.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2015 15:10     Subject: Re:Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:

Maybe because the 10 year old is little. Poor kid. Growth hormones would get CPS off their case.


The parents are neglectful for not giving the child growth hormones!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(No, I don't actually believe that.)
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2015 15:09     Subject: Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:
If the police had stopped and asked two little kids if they were all right and then let them go on their way, and then something bad happened to the kids between there and home, would lots of people be posting here wondering why the police officer didn't make sure that two very young children made it safely home?
Would they wonder why a police officer who had had a chance to make a difference just let two little kids go walking down the street by themselves?


It would be really great if public officials didn't base their decisions on "What if something highly unlikely happens, and then I'd get in trouble?"
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2015 15:08     Subject: Re:Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:Three separate adults, on three separate occasions, thought something was not right and called the police when they saw the 2 kids on their own.

If this had happened just once, I could blow it off as a randomly paranoid person. But three different people? on three different occasions?

It's not a minor thing to call the police/911. It's going out of your way. Why did these three people do that?

Seems to me that for average people out there, it looked like the children were either in a potentially dangerous situation or possibly being neglected.

I for one am glad that we live in a community where strangers care enough about the situation to call the police. You know there are children out there who are neglected, or abused, the signs are there and no one does anything (Relisha Rudd and others). Sounds like the situation on Sunday could have been handled better, but I for one am not faulting the police officer. Somehow the kids are flagged in the system for him to contact CPS. What was he supposed to do, ignore that? Just return the kids to their home, not knowing why they'd been flagged by CPS? What if the kids were truly being neglected? (and maybe they are)


Maybe because the 10 year old is little. Poor kid. Growth hormones would get CPS off their case.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2015 15:07     Subject: Re:Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:Three separate adults, on three separate occasions, thought something was not right and called the police when they saw the 2 kids on their own.

If this had happened just once, I could blow it off as a randomly paranoid person. But three different people? on three different occasions?

It's not a minor thing to call the police/911. It's going out of your way. Why did these three people do that?

Seems to me that for average people out there, it looked like the children were either in a potentially dangerous situation or possibly being neglected.

I for one am glad that we live in a community where strangers care enough about the situation to call the police. You know there are children out there who are neglected, or abused, the signs are there and no one does anything (Relisha Rudd and others). Sounds like the situation on Sunday could have been handled better, but I for one am not faulting the police officer. Somehow the kids are flagged in the system for him to contact CPS. What was he supposed to do, ignore that? Just return the kids to their home, not knowing why they'd been flagged by CPS? What if the kids were truly being neglected? (and maybe they are)


Yes, three different people, on three different occasions, because all three people share the common modern-day societal belief that elementary-school-aged children should not be walking around without a parent. The something that was not right was two elementary-school-aged children walking around without a parent.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2015 15:06     Subject: Re:Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:Three separate adults, on three separate occasions, thought something was not right and called the police when they saw the 2 kids on their own.

If this had happened just once, I could blow it off as a randomly paranoid person. But three different people? on three different occasions?

It's not a minor thing to call the police/911. It's going out of your way. Why did these three people do that?

Seems to me that for average people out there, it looked like the children were either in a potentially dangerous situation or possibly being neglected.

I for one am glad that we live in a community where strangers care enough about the situation to call the police. You know there are children out there who are neglected, or abused, the signs are there and no one does anything (Relisha Rudd and others). Sounds like the situation on Sunday could have been handled better, but I for one am not faulting the police officer. Somehow the kids are flagged in the system for him to contact CPS. What was he supposed to do, ignore that? Just return the kids to their home, not knowing why they'd been flagged by CPS? What if the kids were truly being neglected? (and maybe they are)


Maybe because the 10 year old is little. Poor kid. Growth hormones would get CPS off their case.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2015 15:05     Subject: Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:
If the police had stopped and asked two little kids if they were all right and then let them go on their way, and then something bad happened to the kids between there and home, would lots of people be posting here wondering why the police officer didn't make sure that two very young children made it safely home?
Would they wonder why a police officer who had had a chance to make a difference just let two little kids go walking down the street by themselves?


Absolutely. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I, for one, am thankful that the 911 caller took the time and interest to be concerned about the welfare of the children and glad that the police took the situation seriously.

Anonymous
Post 04/15/2015 15:04     Subject: Re:Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Three separate adults, on three separate occasions, thought something was not right and called the police when they saw the 2 kids on their own.

If this had happened just once, I could blow it off as a randomly paranoid person. But three different people? on three different occasions?

It's not a minor thing to call the police/911. It's going out of your way. Why did these three people do that?

Seems to me that for average people out there, it looked like the children were either in a potentially dangerous situation or possibly being neglected.

I for one am glad that we live in a community where strangers care enough about the situation to call the police. You know there are children out there who are neglected, or abused, the signs are there and no one does anything (Relisha Rudd and others). Sounds like the situation on Sunday could have been handled better, but I for one am not faulting the police officer. Somehow the kids are flagged in the system for him to contact CPS. What was he supposed to do, ignore that? Just return the kids to their home, not knowing why they'd been flagged by CPS? What if the kids were truly being neglected? (and maybe they are)
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2015 15:03     Subject: Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
is this thread really still going??
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2015 15:01     Subject: Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:
If the police had stopped and asked two little kids if they were all right and then let them go on their way, and then something bad happened to the kids between there and home, would lots of people be posting here wondering why the police officer didn't make sure that two very young children made it safely home?
Would they wonder why a police officer who had had a chance to make a difference just let two little kids go walking down the street by themselves?


Yes, it something bad had happened to them, people would blame the police officer and the parents. Same as if the parents were there supervising, too. People are always looking for who to blame.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2015 15:00     Subject: Re:Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:

Lots of other countries don't require car seats either. So we can't require car seats?


1. Which countries don't require car seats?


Are you kidding? Much of Asia, to start with. At least in 2010, Mexico.


OK, then let's limit the comparison to countries that require car seats. Though I still don't understand what car seat laws have to do with a six-year-old's ability to walk home alone.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2015 14:59     Subject: Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
If the police had stopped and asked two little kids if they were all right and then let them go on their way, and then something bad happened to the kids between there and home, would lots of people be posting here wondering why the police officer didn't make sure that two very young children made it safely home?
Would they wonder why a police officer who had had a chance to make a difference just let two little kids go walking down the street by themselves?


Why do people keep referring to a 6-year-old and a 10-year-old as "very young children" and to a 10-year-old as a "little kid"?

And if the police officer wanted to make sure that the children made it safely home, the best way to do that would be to drive the children home. But CPS didn't let the police officer do that.


^^^unless of course the police officer got in a wreck on the way home, with the children not in car seats.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2015 14:58     Subject: Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police
Anonymous wrote:
If the police had stopped and asked two little kids if they were all right and then let them go on their way, and then something bad happened to the kids between there and home, would lots of people be posting here wondering why the police officer didn't make sure that two very young children made it safely home?
Would they wonder why a police officer who had had a chance to make a difference just let two little kids go walking down the street by themselves?


Why do people keep referring to a 6-year-old and a 10-year-old as "very young children" and to a 10-year-old as a "little kid"?

And if the police officer wanted to make sure that the children made it safely home, the best way to do that would be to drive the children home. But CPS didn't let the police officer do that.