Bring the 12-gauge!

 

Yea, I gues you gotta give them the opportunity to rectify the situation, as afterall, it IS their duty to serve and protect...but that sucks to see them drop the ball. If you could find out for sure it was him, i'd say it would then be time for some "personal satisfaction". Theivin' bastards.

 

Figure out where the guy lives and follow his *** discretely get him stealing **** on tape and get him screwed by the long arm of the law

 

that is totally ridiculous that the police didnt do anything. Your tax dollars pay their salaries.

 

+1

 

So nothing happened and they did not even fallow your leads WTF?

 

yeah pretty much.. I mean I'm sure if one of their police cars were broken into and the computer was taken they would have been more interested if I found it on ebay.

 

Id be contacting the Mayor of your city/town w/e. dont drop the issue until you have gone as far up the ladder as you can.

 

take into consideration that in some cities, crime rates are high compared to the number of officers being on duty making some crimes like this harder to get to. not sure if your city is making big changes due to money, but our department cutted 5 percent of our officers due to money, and what makes it worse is that my city has the highest percentage of violent crimes comittted and etc, ehich in theory is only gonna get worse until some people become more human.so in that case, most officers would attend to a higher need of situation before they focus on a felony such as a burglery thats not in progress.what you should have done since you have the serial # was bid on the item, win it, match the serial #, and then reported it to the local police.

 

Doesn't suprise me one bit that they didn't do anything.

When I had my stereo equipment stolen out of my car, cops did nothing, told me not to do anything. And I could have even taken them to the house of the person who stole it, looked around probably dound it, boom-ba-da-bing. Second time my stereo stuff got stolen, almost exactly one month later. Same thing, I KNOW WHO THE **** IS STEALING MY CRAP. But they say they don't have any evidence or probable cause to investigate him and all that. Well I finally get tight on my stuff, light the driveway up like a runway. Several months later, I have a new mountain bike in the garage, haven't had it two weeks. I come out to the garage and it's missing. I say Fu*K this! I get my Dad and we go to the guys damn house. My bike is sitting right there behind a car beside the driveway. I saw it with my own eyes. I throw my bike in the truck, we already called the police, but the call them again to tell them where we are.

Guess what, that don't do a damn thing. The officer that arrived on the scene even went to highschool with my Dad and said that he can't do anything beucase they actually have to see the ****** take the bike, catch him red handed. WTF just happened. My Dad nearly blew it right then. I was in disbeleif that this kid was getting away with it stealing from me for a third time.

Several months to a year after that, the kid gets caught walking into someones home to steal stuff and finally gets arested and even admits to stealing my bike and stuff while in custody. I really lost alot of respect for LEOs after thoes events.

 

I'm sorry dude, but for the most part cops are useless. I'm not saying that ALL police are no-good, but a majority of them don't do anything but sit on their asses and harass people. I can't tell you how many times in a week I just want to start flashing my lights at the local P.D. to pull them over, they never use their blinkers, drive at a minimum of 10 over the speed limit and all around drive like morons, but they can get away with it simply because they are "the man."

I don't say any of this out of spite, because I haven't even been pulled over by the police since I was 16 years old, but these guys are supposed to be setting a precedent and showing people how to behave and drive their vehicles according to the law.

I will say this, though.. When it comes to entering or investigating someones home, police are really hampered simply by all of the red tape and propaganda of our legal system. It's made up of so many loop-holes that it would be nearly impossible to do anything without some hard evidence.

 

Sorry to hear it didn't end up leading anywhere Dave. Should have bid on it, got the package, and drove to the sending address and took care of some ****.

Wow man. **** that ****! I'd be busting his windows getting my **** back. He wouldn't dare report that his stolen items were stolen.

 

Does your insurance cover items in the car? That's one of the great things about mine is that it covers items inside the car that are not stock as long as I have photos of them to prove I own them.

 

My insurance is like that, too. My dad took pictures with me next to almost everything before it was installed it on the car. With the headers, I held my license above then when they were installed just so there were no questions that it was mine.

 

allstate would have covered the things in the vehicle such as the radio only if it were installed in replace of the factory radio located in the same location as it was manufactured. So since I had an XM radio and the stock radio it was considered a loss. I could have put it on the homeowners policy for the stolen items but my deductible is 1000 for that which is the amount that was stolen so it wasn't worth it to file a claim there

 

wow sayin cops are useless...dont you think that is a stretch. those guys put their lives on the line everyday so they can attempt to make your life easier...im sorry but a little radar detector is and will be considered a loss when it comes to manpower huinting the culprit down. the perp will eventually be caught and thats probably how the detective took it...time is on their side even though you are the one who is suffering from the cost of replacing everything.

Chalk it up as TO NOT TO LEAVE YOUR **** IN PLAIN VIEW...i dont care where you live.

BASHING LE c'mon people you're better than this.

 

This is true. Now all departments are different. Im required to follow EVERY lead possible until I hit a dead end. With your case Dave, the eBay deal would be a decent lead, but not set in stone. I would absolutely contact eBay, state the reason for suspicion on the seller, and see if they would hand over his name. Their privacy contracts may not allow that but it would be a lead worth following.

I wish it were as easy as going to someone's residence and searching whatever we want to search without needing a damn good reason. Cant do that here in Maryland. If we know a residence is hiding stolen items or drugs, we have to have MULTIPLE keys of evidence to draw up a search warrant. We have to take the search warrant in front of the judge and have him sign off on it. If he doesnt think theres enough raw evidence against the suspect then he wont sign it and your back to square one. I could always question the guy.....toss a few things at him to see if he gives up any info...but if he denies it and I have nothing else.... what else can you do. Fingerprints would be ideal. Process the car for any fingeprints. Have them take your prints as well to eliminate your print as a possible suspect (unless you DID do it and just want insurance money ) Im just throwing out ideas here.

I wouldnt say were worthless. There are some cops that are lazy and just wanna run traffic all day. I cant do that. I spend most of my time in a bad area dealing with crackheads that wanna run, fight, spit on you if you get close. Thankfully I havnt been shot at.....dont wanna get shot at. Ive recovered guns and other weapons, but luckily I got to em before they did.

Dave, I hope it works out for you. I really do. God bless.

 

wow excuse me?? Maybe you haven't read any of my prior posts before you typed that... I never bashed them I just think I should have had the courtesy of them CALLING me to update me about the situation like they said they would instead of NEVER hearing back from them. 1) i don't keep stuff in plain view you would have known that if you read any of the other stuff. 2) just a radar detector? yeah I agree but what are you telling me about the other peoples belongings that the same crook stole which by the way totaled up to $7,000 in ONE night.... do you still not think that's significant?? Sorry I was only able to find the radar detector on ebay... its called a lead hence maybe it would LEAD to the rest of my crap that got stolen and possibly get back everyone elses belongings.. Saying that only police should go after people that murder/more serious crimes is BS. You break the law you break the law and law enforcement should go after any crime that's broken. So the next time someone breaks into your house you expect us to just tell you not to call the cops because they should be out there tracking down real crimes?? ooooooooooooooooook

 

DAVE FTW!

 

yup.

 

It would definitely be interesting to catch someone breaking into my car/house...

I say you do what Jack did...get a video camera or something and monitor where your car is parked (record)... that and a Remington 870 police. lol

but that's a shitty situation

 

Did they just take the radio, or the mount too? I have a brand new, never activated, Roady XT sitting around. No hardware though, just the radio unit. I swap my radio between two different cars, and at the time it was the same price to buy a second whole kit from Costco then to get a second installation kit online. You can have it for mad cheap if you want. - Nick

 

Thanks Nick, XM sent me a new radio and just charged me 9.99 because of the situation. Had to buy all the wiring myself though to hard wire it again but the radio equipments all back together and working again

 

nope, didnt realize this was a sequel to another thread... OOPs. my post was driven off of someone callin LE "useless"...cops are the most hated people until they are needed, which is fucked up...anyway

1.) sure you dont...
2.) dont know how you came up with that figure but ok...probably the cops letting out info they shouldnt.

still sounds like you live in fantasy land where we have endless amounts of police officers. like what was said above there most likely wasnt enough INFO to go off of...red tape whatever you want to call it.

i would of bid on the damn thing and would of asked to exchange money/item in person...



lower your deductibles and you could of collected a sweet insurance check. if you cant than keep less expensive **** in your car...this is just my habit because i grew up and lived in some unsavory neighborhoods. i know the outcome when my property is stolen and the police are involved...not a damn thing.

 

I live in a University apartment complex.. its not difficult to walk outside see numerous broken car windows and then since your considered a victim your given a police report that has everything listed that was stolen from everyone. Therefore a figure. Considering some people in this thread thought i had a detector mounted under my driver seat that clearly shows that I leave a bunch of stuff blatantly in view. I'm done

 

look ******* i dont kow you...just because your ***** hurt about police not bending over backwards for you doesnt mean that they dont do their job.

 

If someone breaks into my car, all they'll end up with is a cheap-*** radar detector, a cheap-*** pair of woman's sunglasses, a sun visor, an emergency kit, a California car duster and a 3' tall plastic skeleton. Oh, and maybe $2.50 or so in change.

They will also end up with buckshot from a 12 gauge shotgun stuck in their *** if I get out there in time.

 

yeah your damn right you don't know me so quit making assumptions that I live in a "fantasy land". I made this thread to ask for input on what to do. I came back to just give an update that nothing happened. Then some people called LEO's lazy and then you start getting on my *** about bitching about a radar detector. So yeah your damn right I'm not just going to sit there and let you come in and start calling me a dumbass and how I think the world is just one big happy orgy

 

Oh ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fight fight fight fight fight...... lol

Dave. Thats cool BTW that XM hooked you up. good to know they take care of their customers

 

I don't recall him saying anything about expecting police to bend over backwards for him. I don't recall him saying anything about how police are useless, either. He actually said on the first page something about how the police chose to ignore the lead and then typed... 'oh well' afterwards. I think most of us would be upset if we were in his situation. I know I would be. But he has accepted his loss and is legitimate with his feelings. There's no need for any of us to be a dick about it, especially when it is in regards to something someone didn't even say in the first place.