Seattlest: The Aesthetic Crimes of the Seattle Police Department

guest

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:41:04 -0800

An egregious aesthetic crime.

James Callan

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:17:23 -0800

Yeah, they took prints at the window the guy jimmied open -- smeary and unusable, though. And there were no witnesses. We live in Rainier Beach, so our officers were from the South Precinct on Myrtle; the return address on the letter we got is the Fifth Avenue office, though.

MSandison

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:24:37 -0800

My house was recently broke into also. What precinct did you receive this gem from? And did they really take the time to do fingerprints? Wow. There were any number of places in our house that could have yielded working prints (including a knife left behind by the perps), and all we got was the securing of our house along with some blank victim statements and a case number. Not to mention, our neighbor gave a pretty obvious description of the suspects as they left which lead to nothing. Ugh.

James Callan

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:26:02 -0800

We are amused.

guest

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:23:01 -0800

Wow, you guys all live in the same house? Cool!

Michael van Baker

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:20:04 -0800

James, this post is top-shelf stuff! "Comic Sans does you no favors." As true today as ever!

guest

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:34:46 -0800

my friends house was robbed during a party (lots of things stolen--including car/house keys, credit cards, cameras, phones, purses, etc.--and we called the SPD right away. Officers came and took a report. The next day, people were checking bank accounts and phone statements to see if the thieves had used anything, and one girl noticed several calls on her phone between 1 and 3am. One was to yellow cab. We put in a call to yellow cab and they said that they had a name, pickup/dropoff address, and a photo of the fair but that they would only release it to SPD. The other phone calls were to houses within 5 blocks of the party house. When an SPD "detective" called, she had no record of anything that the officers had written down the night of the incident. When told about the cab lead, which we gave her on a silver platter, she asked that we send her a note in "an internet", which we assumed meant "email". She then claimed after a four or five day wait that the cab company "didn't know what I was talking about" which is bullshit because when we called them back they said they had it. The "detective" called the other numbers on the list but said that "nobody wanted to talk to me" and basically threw her hands up. This was back in february. A few weeks ago the house where the party was held got a call from a "manager" of an "apartment" that said that they "found" purses and wallets with IDs and credit cards. "They" asked if we wanted them "back", and agreed to have us pick them up at the apartment building (an address was given). Nobody was at the "apartment" but then another call was made by the "manager" and the stuff was "across the street". Needless to say, the SPD was very unhelpful and said that because the value of the goods was less than 5,000 dollars or something it wasn't a "priority". Had the thieves come back in the middle of the night and stolen the car (which they had keys to), or had they robbed the house again, maybe the SPD would have done something. But then again. Maybe not.

guest

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:35:35 -0800

Also on the sans-comic-sans'dwagon: http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=07052007