Good article. My opinion of Neighborhood Watch programs changed after I was a watch captain for several years. The dispatchers that I called to didn’t really want to hear from me. Reports called in messed up the normal day to day activities of deputies and state cops, and you quickly become a nuisance. If you call in real crimes, you are making them look bad, and because you know something about crimes in your neighborhood, you become a suspect. Neighborhood Watch captains should expect to be treated with suspicion, maybe even followed by cops for miles and miles (They have your cell phone number!). You might even have a surveillance van hang around your home. Nowadays I see nothing.
Mainly because police who actually want to do their duty are about 5% of the total now, it seems. The rest want to get paid for driving around, eating pizza, and shooting dogs.
August 21st, 2013 at 8:07 am
Good article. My opinion of Neighborhood Watch programs changed after I was a watch captain for several years. The dispatchers that I called to didn’t really want to hear from me. Reports called in messed up the normal day to day activities of deputies and state cops, and you quickly become a nuisance. If you call in real crimes, you are making them look bad, and because you know something about crimes in your neighborhood, you become a suspect. Neighborhood Watch captains should expect to be treated with suspicion, maybe even followed by cops for miles and miles (They have your cell phone number!). You might even have a surveillance van hang around your home. Nowadays I see nothing.
August 21st, 2013 at 4:20 pm
Mainly because police who actually want to do their duty are about 5% of the total now, it seems. The rest want to get paid for driving around, eating pizza, and shooting dogs.