RE: The Police took TWO HOURS to Show Up! ~#privatizeeverything
I can relate. My car was stolen years ago and I actually found it on the street a few days later the next neighborhood over from mine. I called the cops immediately to get assistance with retrieving my car. I had the keys but I wanted to avoid a violent confrontation with the thieves who stole it, so I just watched it until they arrived, just in case someone got in and drove away. The police took two whole hours to come help me out with it, then did zero investigation. Finally after quite a few questions from me and pointing out the gang tags on the inside of the car done with magic marker, they snapped some pictures of the tags. That was it. No talking to anyone in the neighborhood, no dusting for fingerprints, nothing. Never heard from them again. I guess my POS car that I needed to get my poor ass back and forth to work wasn't worth it to them, but it certainly was to me. I'm so glad I've been paying taxes all these years in order to "use the roads and police services."
My tires were slashed one Thanksgiving. I had arrived at a friend's place, and parking is limited on their street. Since it was a mail holiday, I parked in front of a mailbox. I arrived late in the afternoon, so people would have had a good 24 hours to empty their mailboxes before I arrived. I left late at night - well, tried to leave. Some asshole slashed both passenger tires. The cops showed up in a mere 20-30 minutes, and then proceeded to do jack shit to find the perpetrator so I could get restitution despite numerous neighborhood reports of a specific individual who had threatened to slash tires.
At least they had the common sense to not ticket me. But that's it. Fortunately, I had added a full-size wheel to the trunk in addition to the donut spare, and thus had replacements for both wheels to limp 25 miles home.