Moral obligation to the community?!
The fact that well experienced thugs are running around the community pretty much puts the lie to that statement. The community failed Mrs. Polynikes a long time ago by letting these thugs get away to rob again.
Perhaps if you live in a community where police actually care about crimes that do not involve physical injury that might hold water. Or where violent thugs actually were sent away to jail for a looooong time.
I live in a fairly good town but when I have called the cops for a couple of incidents of encounters that did not quite result in personal injury or property damage the police have literally said they are too busy to respond to non-injury calls and hung up. Neither time did they invite me to file a report before hanging up. And our police dept is pretty well funded. They have no shortage of personnel, cars, bicycles, Segways, SWAT or tactical gear from my observation.
Personally I would try to report it just in the off chance someone at the police dept gave a rip about a non-injury offense. But if someone else chooses not to and I was attacked by that same person, I would not blame the previous victim. I would blame the courts, DA office and police for why a well experienced mugger/rapist/kidnapper (who knows) is running around loose. He probably has been arrested several times before. I doubt he is clean on arrests.
Good awareness and reaction by Mrs. Polynikes. Her reaction is probably going to do more to make these scum bags think twice than having a report sit in the file cabinet at police HQ.
The fact that well experienced thugs are running around the community pretty much puts the lie to that statement. The community failed Mrs. Polynikes a long time ago by letting these thugs get away to rob again.
Perhaps if you live in a community where police actually care about crimes that do not involve physical injury that might hold water. Or where violent thugs actually were sent away to jail for a looooong time.
I live in a fairly good town but when I have called the cops for a couple of incidents of encounters that did not quite result in personal injury or property damage the police have literally said they are too busy to respond to non-injury calls and hung up. Neither time did they invite me to file a report before hanging up. And our police dept is pretty well funded. They have no shortage of personnel, cars, bicycles, Segways, SWAT or tactical gear from my observation.
Personally I would try to report it just in the off chance someone at the police dept gave a rip about a non-injury offense. But if someone else chooses not to and I was attacked by that same person, I would not blame the previous victim. I would blame the courts, DA office and police for why a well experienced mugger/rapist/kidnapper (who knows) is running around loose. He probably has been arrested several times before. I doubt he is clean on arrests.
Good awareness and reaction by Mrs. Polynikes. Her reaction is probably going to do more to make these scum bags think twice than having a report sit in the file cabinet at police HQ.