Should have kept this to yourself. Now the perp will know you are close.

I would expect to be disappointed by the police response.

That has been my baseline since this happened

I don't think that matters with the info we already have.

hey so we are online and we are divided by lots of political what have yous but most of us are real people and mostly want to be nice to our neighbors.

dont let the shit get you down.

Boy that's true, whe. It happened to me a decade ago I was told if I found who did it to let them know and they would consider doing something

Springfield Mo reddit > Springfield police? Who would have thunk it?

The devil on my shoulder kinda hopes the next update we get is that the perps got an ass whoopin'.

Yea I've known people who had full-face surveillance camera footage of the person in the act, and cops still told them they can't do anything about it. They're all useless at anything but perpetuating cycles of poverty to insulate the ruling class from real people's struggles.

Someone burglarized my neighbor with a U-Haul in broad daylight. I saw furniture and stuff being moved out but figured it was someone moving out with it being broad daylight and a U-Haul. A different neighbor has cameras and had the plate number of the U-Haul. All the cops needed to do was find out who rented the U-Haul. They did nothing. Neighbor never got any of his stuff back.

Inshallah brother

It's so disappointing, and frankly infuriating, that you were the victim and you're expected to track down the perpetrator, collect evidence, and be able to nail down who did it before the police will even consider doing anything...you know the people who are paid a full salary, numerous benefits, and a pension at taxpayer expense to prevent , investigate, and bring to prosecution criminals.

I'm sorry this happened to you.

Same thing happened in our driveway about 2 years ago. We had video ofnthe people, as did our neighbors who had their vehicle broken into too....Police showed up. Looked at the video (wouldn't even humor us by accepting a copy of it).

Makes paying my property tax this month a little bit bigger pill to swallow.

Yep. Countless stories of "I have find my device active, I can show you within 50 feet of where it is, and I know the person who has it " met with "No can do" from the police.

I really don't get it. They will blow a door off its hinges, shoot the dogs, drag kids out of their beds in the middle of the night over a suspected weed dealer, but you hand them a thief and they couldn't care less.

Almost like they only care about getting their rocks off and keeping poor people poor.

I do not understand it either, I hear arguments for being understaffed and overwhelmed. But even when all the leg work is done for them. Over the years I've just had to redefine what the role of a police officer is for me and it is not protector or crime fighter. They do not exist to protect the interest of common people.

You can expect the police to do absolutely nothing. They don't exist to help, only to keep you doing what your supposed to and make you pay more money. Had a wallet stolen, confirmed exact ATM they used, had cameras, gave to police, they closed it a month later with no "leads" never tried to do anything what so ever.

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They’re probably trying to ID who the person is by the ATM video/photos, if the person’s face is even visible. And they don’t get closed, they get suspended pending further leads. Banks are decent but some gas stations take months to provide police with surveillance video.

It was a bank and the never made any attempt what so ever

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It was 6 years ago lol

Stop by the municipal court and file a citizen's complaint. Provide a copy of the photos and whatever else you've got. No guarantees it will go anywhere, and it's muni court, so the worst that will be done is a low fine and maybe some jail time....but it's something more to do than wait on cops to work on it.

I will do that

SPD is 90 officers short. They won't do jack unless someone gets murdered

It's like I said in another comment, I've just had to adjust my understanding on what it is a police officer's role is.

And yet we get in trouble for taking matters into our own hands to fix our own problems:/

Might i suggest contacting ky3 and have them do a story. Seems like you embarrass the police in the news then they are willing to do something about it.

They actually did reach out to us, we were going to be interviewed today. They had to postpone and offered to do it later today I believe but the other party involved backed out and asked not to do it. I don't agree with the decision but like I said in the update, just respecting their wishes

Anyway to KY3 's credit, they did try.

If you would like to apply for the job there are plenty of openings. I don’t agree with your opinion on “redefining the role of police” but it is yours. I think anyone who wants to judge from the outside should at least try to do a ride along. They are incredibly short officers so lower priority calls like theft will be on the back burner while they deal with violent crimes or domestic situations which are very common for Springfield.

Respectfully, I do not need to do the walk in someone else's shoes thing when I am speaking from years of interactions and personal experience. Like you said, we have our own opinion, let's leave it at that.

My vehicle breakin/burglary report from 2019 remains unaddressed too. It was parked right underneath a security camera at a domestic violence shelter. The shelter won't release the footage to just anyone and encouraged me to file a police report for that reason, but nothing ever came of it.

Even a decade ago the police didn't do shit about theft, unless it was from a big corporate store or a McMansion in Ravenwood. "They are short officers" is just the latest excuse for them to not do anything at all to help the average person.

Most police officers are really made up of the average people, coming from mostly middle class or low income families so I don’t understand how people think they don’t help those people. Also most crime happens to low income people from low income people.

I don't care where they came from, I care about their actions, which show they're basically mercenaries for the rich and white.

That doesn’t even make any sense. Especially in Springfield with it being such a diverse community. I see your stance on things so there is no reason to continue.

Well, your first problem is that you think Springfield is diverse.

Any statement you make stems from your idea of the police being “basically mercenaries for the rich and white”. We just have different opinions so might as well leave it at that.

I wonder what could have possibly given me that idea? Surely it isn't the direct, obersavble actions of police departments across the country...that would be ridiculous.