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They don't care AFTER a crime has been committed either. Every time I tried to report my bike stolen (happened a lot, unfortunately) they just laughed at me for wasting their time.
The one time I needed them for an intervention they showed up very late, obviously against their will and were downright belligerent (I was the victim of a crime, they barely registered it).
ACAB, no exceptions.
A bike? I had the same reaction trying to report my car stolen. Not worth their time. They couldn’t even cross reference their own data - a couple weeks later I was ticketed for abandoning my stripped car and charged for towing and storage fees. Reporting my car stolen was just an income source to them and I had to keep paying so it wouldn’t keep adding up
The guy we work with told us that there's a pusher living on the floor below his apartment. It's really sad because the police do nothing about it, even though there have been so many complaints from the neighbors. Narcotics are forbidden here, except for CBD-only products.
CBD being classed as a narcotic is wild.
My friend had his bike stolen. He insisted on filing a police report even though the cops were clearly annoyed and straight up told him it was pointless. A couple months later he saw his bike chained up on the main street in his neighborhood. There were 2 cops out on the street so he approached them and explained the situation. One laughed at him and said, "What do you want us to do about it?" The other told him he would have to provide proof that that specific bike was his and that it wasn't just the same brand which is basically impossible.
Then he said, "We won't be here much longer. Just go buy some bolt cutters and steal it back."
Fuck the cops but ngl that last bit of advice kinda slaps
In all fairness, this one time whilst living in London (UK) the police did recover my stolen bicycle.
Frankly I totally didn't expect it and had only reported the theft to make sure it ended up in the theft statistics.
I've been commuting by bicycle on and off for over 2 decades and got maybe 5 or 6 bicycles stollen in the meanwhile and this was the only one I ever got back.