York Regional Police Needs Your Help - Caught in the Act

I clicked on the thread expecting to see cell phone pics of cops napping in a patrol car.
 
I don't get paid to solve crimes, or impart information onto the police. York police is beyond help. Spend more time training officers better, less time requesting the public to do their job for them.
 
Araqiels said:
I don't get paid to solve crimes, or impart information onto the police. York police is beyond help. Spend more time training officers better, less time requesting the public to do their job for them.
Click to expand...
It's called helping the community. Cops need peoples help in all kinds of cases. it has nothing to do with bad training. You would be the first one on the bandwagon if you were the one being ripped off. Karma is going to bite you in the *** hard, and the I will laugh my *** off. Need a vest?
 
LOL at the guy stealing empty kegs and returning them to the beer store for the $50 deposit, dude must be pretty hard up for cash.

actually, almost all of the crimes there are pretty weak, must be pretty safe place to live if this is the best that they can come up.
 
Araqiels said:
I don't get paid to solve crimes, or impart information onto the police. York police is beyond help. Spend more time training officers better, less time requesting the public to do their job for them.
Click to expand...

I'm sure that they could locate you a good Hookah shop even though they don't get paid for it.
 
Crime inflates prices for all. Also, there's not enough police officers out there to catch every single crime. Many of these "petty crimes" that the police solve involve knocking on doors and speaking with people. This website is a way to get that information out instead of solely relying on officers knocking on your door. This way is more efficient, and in no way replaces policing the way we know it. If you don't care, that's your prerogative, but if your car gets stolen or you personally know someone who has recently been victimized, you might want to reconsider your apathetic stance towards the state of society and crime in your own neighborhood. How about starting with the small things that affect us all...in our own neighbourhood. All we're asking is, "hey, have you seen this person before?". Is that too much to ask? This is for the benefit of your community, not the police. You can hate them all you want, but it's us who are victimized, not the police. It's our credit cards, cars, and property, that's being ripped off.
 
8500 RPM said:
Crime inflates prices for all. Also, there's not enough police officers out there to catch every single crime.
Click to expand...

Agreed, but it doesn't help that quite a significant number of the police is forced to waste their time bringing in revenue for the government via traffic tickets etc... A lot of them are regarded as revenue mules.

Most of the community does what it can to help the police because it's in our best interest.
 
oilycreek said:
It's called helping the community. Cops need peoples help in all kinds of cases. it has nothing to do with bad training. You would be the first one on the bandwagon if you were the one being ripped off. Karma is going to bite you in the *** hard, and the I will laugh my *** off. Need a vest?
Click to expand...

Worried that nobody will come to your rescue in a time of need, princess? Under pain of karma kicking me in the butt, I'm definetly going to have to start cooperating, and spending my time helping the community by offering people vests.

I'll let you know when to start laughing your butt off. In the meanwhile, keep serious.
 
The police have a PR problem that makes getting help hard for them. I have noted this before, the only one on one experience the majority of the public has with the police is with traffic cops. Usually the experience is VERY negative, not just because of the ticket but because of the officer's attitude and demeanor.

Now if the police were less concerned about revenue generation maybe they would hand out more warnings or set up the speed traps in areas where safety is actually a concern instead of assembly lines on major roads. If the officers had a nicer attitude when you are pulled over regardless of the ticket that might also help.

It goes beyond traffic detail, a month or so ago two officers (metro not york but it goes to "pattern") came looking for the son of the previous owner of my house (we bought the house nearly three years ago, talk about stale intelligence). They came banging (pounding) on the door, and once answered gave us the typical "I will intimidate you" cop attitude. Even after seeing my two and four year old standing there. This type of attitude does not work well with the public, do they really need to try and intimated a two and four year old? If the guy they were looking for was a dangerous offender (obviously not) then maybe there should have been more of them, in short no excuse--just attitude.

So when the police are looking for help (and it is in everyone's best interest to identify these people, because someone else just like us was and will be a victim) many people are just not going to do it because the police have built an "us vs them" feeling for the general public. It is also in everyone's best interest that they change this, I am not sure they understand or care.
 
Araqiels said:
Worried that nobody will come to your rescue in a time of need, princess? Under pain of karma kicking me in the butt, I'm definetly going to have to start cooperating, and spending my time helping the community by offering people vests.I'll let you know when to start laughing your butt off. In the meanwhile, keep serious.
Click to expand...
I won't need anyone to rescue me, but I am pretty you will need to be one day. You strike me as the 14 yr old that says crap to sound cool.
 
oilycreek said:
I won't need anyone to rescue me, but I am pretty you will need to be one day.
Click to expand...



Will being pretty one day help him to talk his way out of a ticket? Can you quantify this? How pretty are you? pics?
 
8500 RPM said:
Crime inflates prices for all. Also, there's not enough police officers out there to catch every single crime. Many of these "petty crimes" that the police solve involve knocking on doors and speaking with people. This website is a way to get that information out instead of solely relying on officers knocking on your door. This way is more efficient, and in no way replaces policing the way we know it. If you don't care, that's your prerogative, but if your car gets stolen or you personally know someone who has recently been victimized, you might want to reconsider your apathetic stance towards the state of society and crime in your own neighborhood. How about starting with the small things that affect us all...in our own neighbourhood. All we're asking is, "hey, have you seen this person before?". Is that too much to ask? This is for the benefit of your community, not the police. You can hate them all you want, but it's us who are victimized, not the police. It's our credit cards, cars, and property, that's being ripped off.
Click to expand...

US and THEM.... all through your post.
 
backmarkerducati said:
The police have a PR problem that makes getting help hard for them. I have noted this before, the only one on one experience the majority of the public has with the police is with traffic cops. Usually the experience is VERY negative, not just because of the ticket but because of the officer's attitude and demeanor.

Now if the police were less concerned about revenue generation maybe they would hand out more warnings or set up the speed traps in areas where safety is actually a concern instead of assembly lines on major roads. If the officers had a nicer attitude when you are pulled over regardless of the ticket that might also help.

It goes beyond traffic detail, a month or so ago two officers (metro not york but it goes to "pattern") came looking for the son of the previous owner of my house (we bought the house nearly three years ago, talk about stale intelligence). They came banging (pounding) on the door, and once answered gave us the typical "I will intimidate you" cop attitude. Even after seeing my two and four year old standing there. This type of attitude does not work well with the public, do they really need to try and intimated a two and four year old? If the guy they were looking for was a dangerous offender (obviously not) then maybe there should have been more of them, in short no excuse--just attitude.

So when the police are looking for help (and it is in everyone's best interest to identify these people, because someone else just like us was and will be a victim) many people are just not going to do it because the police have built an "us vs them" feeling for the general public. It is also in everyone's best interest that they change this, I am not sure they understand or care.
Click to expand...

Couldn't have said it better. It all comes down to PR and trust something that has been slipping away from police forces over the last few years
 
8500 RPM said:
Crime inflates prices for all.
Click to expand...

I wonder if that's an accurate statement. Is it crime, or our justice system and financial institutions doing the inflating? It would be nice to know what the actual total losses incurred due to crime are, verses what we pay as a society in crime prevention. The numbers have to be close when you consider salaries for judges, court reporters, cops, jail gaurds, jails, prosecuting attorneys, court houses, cop shops, housing and feeding criminals (especially when people are jailed for crimes with no actual material or financial loss to anyone in the community...ie drug charges). I think the justice sytem is broken, someone needs to come up with a better solution.
Forum Sponsor
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top Bottom