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...but what do you sound like over the phone?

My mom never left her pocketbook in the car. She was afraid someone would break in and steal it.
This I remember from 40 years ago.
The police have been telling people not to leave valuables in their vehicles for decades.
Wouldn't it be great if the police didn't have to worry about victim-induced crimes?
Did you request a report be taken? Did the telephone Response Unit call you for a report? When they did, did they suggest, based upon your statement that USEFUL evidence was present, offer to have a Crime Scene unit to respond to collect the evidence?
You must report a crime- criminal activity is recorded in the software and indexed so that supervisors can look for trends and perhaps stop a crime in progress.(more on this later).

So you were irresponsible enough to leave a purse in plain sight inside your vehicle, and yet you want to complain about the police? I'm sure this must be a habit of yours, so odds finally caught up with you. You end up frustrated and probably need a police officer right there in front of you to say, "there there, it will be ok and we will find it".

Well here's a reality check for you. Anything that you don't lock up out of sight or duct tape to your body will eventually get stolen...be responsible! When your stuff gets stolen there probably isn't one good lead until it's pawned or a credit/debit card is used, or it was stolen right under a camera or in front of a witness. More reality...the police dept doesn't have enough officers to send one out just to hold your hand while a report is taken. There is no good reason to send one out when there are no immediate leads and the same information can be taken right over the phone. It's called resource management. Get used to it and don't lay your purse out like a big neon sign saying, "please break into my car!!!".

Are you telling us the police can ignore a white female as well as a black male.

Have you no compassion for the black victims?

Perhaps the reason they did not follow up on your call was they must have thought you were a black male.

Are you sure you are a white female?

i'm a large white male but like to dress up like a black or/and white female every 1st and 3rd weekend in the month.. i'm glad you gals told me the problems with purse snatching cause i have some fine bags. Do what i do girlfriends..put your junk in the trunk! and only call dah Poleeeece if you need a ride or want to be frisked.

Chucka, I've got plenty of junk in my trunk, don't know if there's room for a handbag!

Seriously, though, people, don't leave your bags in your car! Also, ladies, leaving a gaping handbag in the kiddie seat of your shopping cart while you're off squeezing tomatoes is an invitation to theft. How many times have I seen ladies at the Teeter do this? Do they really trust their fellow man that much? Crazy! Although I'm not a fan of blaming the victim, sometimes the victim makes foolish choices.

The LTE writer is lucky the police did NOT come out! Has anyone ever seen the mess that fingerprint dust leaves? The police don't clean it up before they leave either. The dust is like a fine, charcoal powder and sticks EVERYWHERE and is quite difficult to clean from surfaces. My bet is, had the police come, we would have still seen a letter from Karen Finch ..... complaining about the mess the police had made.

Sorry, but imo, only someone just shy of an idiot leaves a purse (or anything of value) in the car in plain view!

"Are you telling us the police can ignore a white female as well as a black male."

Not only are the police racist but sexist as well. Look forward to a letter from a white gay male who's car got broken into so we can call them homophobic as well. Or perhaps a Jewish person so we can call them anti-semetic, etc, etc.