So my stylist’s salon kept getting robbed. And the neighboring small businesses also kept getting robbed. The police wasn’t managing to catch the criminal because the robberies were done very professionally and there were no clues left.
So the stylist decided to take matters into her own hands, bought a secret surveillance camera online* and installed it in the salon. The next time the robber came, the camera filmed him.
And who do you think it was? It was a local police officer. He was so professional precisely because he was a professional. His colleagues had no knowledge that was superior to his, so they couldn’t catch him.
We have no crime in this town, so you can’t say that our police is overextended. It’s just that they don’t want to be bothered a whole lot, and citizens have to take matters into their own hands. At least, they did wake up for five minutes and arrested the robber after the stylist caught him.
* Somebody was asking who will do the policing work in the future. Here is the answer.
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Of course it was someone nobody* would suspect.
*In the game of cops and robbers, he was a cop! And a robber!
Somebody was asking who will do the policing work in the future. Here is the answer.
I don’t see the police going away for the Walton family or large corporations or banks. Of course they can easily hire private security.
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“I don’t see the police going away for the Walton family or large corporations or banks. ”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Cullen_Davis
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Oh, they did that a long time ago. Very rich people can murder, rape children, commit all kinds of horrible crimes but they never go to jail.
I meant in the sense of “Can I call someone else to use force and resources on behalf?”, not “will the police turn a blind eye to crimes I might commit?” I haven’t heard of this guy but I did hear about a hedge fund manager who committed a hit and run but was only charged with a misdemeanor. He got a year’s probation with charity with 45 days of charity work. Let me know if the cop gets off lightly.
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That is disheartening.
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My mother always said that police and criminals are largely the same (that is the same personality profile is attracted to both and which side a person lands on is largely a matter of upbringing and character).
That’s one reason she always stressed the importance of utter courtesy to police. You don’t have to like (or respect) them but be courteous.
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Actually, there have been psychology studies comparing police and criminals and finding them to be very similar. Of course, we have to put this episode into the context of a small suburban St. Louis police department — and, well, gee, haven’t we had a number of stories about them recently? Is there a special problem with the people these little departments recruit?
Clarissa, would you mind if I mention this episode (with or without citation as you prefer) is a discussion group on Yahoo in which I’m involved?
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Yes, go ahead. It’s that same case you found online in your comment that has been quarantined. The blog doesn’t let through comments that mention my university.
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