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Subject: The importance of filing police reports

Author:
Brigid

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Date Posted: 18:30:07 08/28/02 Wed

Not to badger you or insult anyone's intelligence, but I'd like to stress the importance of filing police reports in the unfortunate event that something happens to any of you. If you haven't filed on a previous incident... i doubt it's too late to do so.

The reason I'm stressing this is actually because I came into contact with a police officer -- a really lovely guy --who is in the 83rd precinct's anti-crime division. We spoke a couple times on the phone and this past saturday he and 4 of his fellow plain-clothes officers stopped by our apartment to chat. They do care about our safety and would like to help more... but -- and this is important -- Police officers decide which locations deserve the most police presence each week after going through the past week's police reports. Thus, if 6 things happen in front of our one building in one week, and only 1 incident is reported, in the words of Officer Carito, "we assume things are pretty quiet on Lawton and on the neighboring blocks."

I'm sure this is nothing new to all of you... but filing police reports does help far more than you may think they do. If you think, "well, i couldn't identify my mugger anyway" or "it was a group of kids on bikes, i couldn't give a description and nonetheless, they didn't get any money off of me..." etc... it doesn't matter. The cops understand that a proper description isn't always possible... and are still very interested in the details of these punks' modus operandi -- and such details can be more incriminating than a description of a mugger's face.

Give it some thought. And stay safe.

Also, I'd like to give you guys my phone number... in case you want someone to walk somewhere with you or meet you from the train or whatever. During the academic year -- sad but true -- i rarely go out on weekends, but nonetheless, stay up late. So if you don't want to take a cab, give me a call. I'll bring my mace and my dog -- I operate under the false assumption that she (my dog) may just scare people!

my number: 718-574-6893

Brigid

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[> Subject: Re: The importance of filing police reports

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Dave
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Date Posted: 17:04:36 08/29/02 Thu

Good point Brigid, that's what they're there for; Even if they are sometimes surly on the phone because Bloomberg's not giving them their raise, all you have to do is ask for their badge number and they start doing their job right away. I'm around a lot too if anyone needs an "escort" - 718-453-7571. And guys, please be careful with the mace and anything else that's armed and dangerous you may be caring around. Many times the perps end up using it against you, or it goes off in an elevator or something.