Letter to the Editor: Some protection
By Delbert Majors, Tulsa
Last Modified: 12/11/2011 3:24 AM
"I am absolutely astounded and appalled. On the evening of Nov. 25, our family was watching a movie on TV when we received a knock on the door. It was a neighbor from across the street, asking if we had seen or heard anything unusual in the last 30 minutes or so. We hadn't. He was asking because several of the windows in his Lincoln Navigator had been broken - obviously by someone or ones who were just bored because they didn't steal his high-dollar stereo or anything.
What was astounding was when I asked him if he had called the police, he replied he had and they referred him to a web page on the computer to fill out for their police report. This absolutely flabbergasted me. The police won't follow up on crimes committed in a neighborhood.
The big kicker happened the next morning. We love just living a few blocks from Riverside. One of our guests went for his morning run. When he got back, he said, he saw several cars with broken windows.
This means if the police had come when they were first called, there would have been a good chance they would have captured the offenders. Especially when I just read a few days before, they were graduating a new class of policemen from the academy. They were going to be looking for drunk drivers and seatbelt offenders. Drunk drivers, yeah. But come on, shouldn't robbery and vandalism be put ahead of seatbelt offenders?
Again, I can't tell you how appalling this type of "police protection," or lack thereof, is to me."
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