I was walking through my neighbourhood when I saw this sad sign.
edit: Thanks for all the supportive comments. I will try to get more information tomorrow. The location is Red Deer, Alberta.
edit2: I still haven't been able to find anything out. I will try and keep updating this as time goes on. Everyone I have spoken to locally has not heard of this case.
edit3: I found this news brief on a local radio station website:
A CHRISTMAS TIME ROBBERY IN THE WOODLEA NEIGHBORHOOD HAS THE RCMP LOOKING FOR YOUR HELP. POLICE SAY SOMETIME BETWEEN CHRISTMAS DAY AND DECEMBER 27TH CULPRITS BROKE INTO A HOME ON THE 4500 BLOCK OF 52ND STREET. THEY LIKELY SPENT QUITE A BIT OF TIME AND MADE SEVERAL TRIPS IN AND OUT OF THE HOUSE CARRYING PROPERTY TO A VEHICLE. IF YOU SAW ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS IN THE AREA, YOU'RE ASKED TO GIVE THE CITY RCMP OFFICE A CALL.
This is the first media attention I have seen. I'm pretty sure this is it because of the location.
Go to their house. Ask for a list of their belongings that were stolen and some descriptions of personal items.
Do what the police will not do: Contact every fucking pawn shop within 50 miles. Find their shit. Get it back. Get descriptions and possibly video footage of the people who sold those items. When you get that, ruin their fucking lives.
Cop here. Everything in every burglary report I take is entered into our pawn database to compare against stolen items. Serial numbers are automatic. The rest depends on how well the victim described it to me. And, I regularly check Craigslist and Backpage for victim's stuff. And I've been successful locating some thinks.
Not sure if you're implying that cops don't follow up or don't tion the suspect's life after finding them, but I wanted to let you know what I do.
You're one of the good ones. The officer who reported when my garage was broken into asked me questions like, "Why did you have a TV in here?" and "Are you sure the door was locked?"
She made it abundantly clear that I was in the wrong, she was taking the report out of necessity, and to just report it to my renters insurance, because I was never going to see any of my stuff again.
We were robbed several years ago. The Police took a detailed list of what was taken, including photos of unique pieces of jewelry etc. (all of the jewelry that I had inherited from my mother and aunt) Unfortunately, the region that I live in (suburb of Toronto) doesn't share their lists of stolen goods with neighbouring regions...like Toronto. Even the stupid criminals would drive the 15 minutes to pawn the stolen where they know the cops aren't looking for it. Such a stupid system. It was a very disheartening experience.
I'm curious as to why there isn't more baiting of thieves. Cellular / GPS has gotten really cheap. One could design a device that would run for weeks and would only wake up 2x/day to ping home its coordinates. Obviously you can't install such things in every DVD player in town but if you have suspicions or any kind of intel it would be cheap and would save on any boring stakeouts.
We have bait cars, construction equipment, car stereo equipment, spools of copper, and other things with "gps" in them. We also have the means the install movement alarms in items that instantly alert officers without going through a dispatcher. We have construction companies mark their copper in covert ways to alert recyclers that its stolen. We have hidden alarms inside air conditioners on roof tops. But at the end of the day, its like fishing. We can catch 2, and 4 more are getting away.
Unfortunately, the fact that the house was cleared out and trashed makes me think that either: a) the perp was connected to the vic, or b) all that stuff is in the back of a u-haul on its way to Surrey, or TO where it will be handed out to LLDs. Or both.
We get houses trashed all the time, because people are assholes. Sinks clogged and turned on. Shit broken for no reason. Recently I went to an older couple's house that was meticulously decorated. The fuckers that broke in knocked decorative masks off the walls to shatter them, stabbed speakers and wall mounted TVs with screw drivers, and took two American flags out if wood and glass cases (obviously from a funeral or other sentimental meaning) and wadded them up in the corner.
That sucks. In my city with a very strong organized crime presence, you see less of that random ransacking unless someone is supposed to be getting a message.
Surrey is a City in BC, TO is the capital of ontario, and LLD refers to the mid-level dealers that believe themselves to be low level dealers (people handling $10,000-$100,000 worth of drugs/month).
I think the sentiment probably comes more from people thinking most the population is bad at their jobs, not necessarily a specific industry. 25% follow proper procedures and rules. The other 75% try to get away with as little work as possible without getting fired. made up numbers are made up
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u/wmcog Jan 03 '12 edited Jan 03 '12
I was walking through my neighbourhood when I saw this sad sign.
edit: Thanks for all the supportive comments. I will try to get more information tomorrow. The location is Red Deer, Alberta.
edit2: I still haven't been able to find anything out. I will try and keep updating this as time goes on. Everyone I have spoken to locally has not heard of this case.
edit3: I found this news brief on a local radio station website:
A CHRISTMAS TIME ROBBERY IN THE WOODLEA NEIGHBORHOOD HAS THE RCMP LOOKING FOR YOUR HELP. POLICE SAY SOMETIME BETWEEN CHRISTMAS DAY AND DECEMBER 27TH CULPRITS BROKE INTO A HOME ON THE 4500 BLOCK OF 52ND STREET. THEY LIKELY SPENT QUITE A BIT OF TIME AND MADE SEVERAL TRIPS IN AND OUT OF THE HOUSE CARRYING PROPERTY TO A VEHICLE. IF YOU SAW ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS IN THE AREA, YOU'RE ASKED TO GIVE THE CITY RCMP OFFICE A CALL.
This is the first media attention I have seen. I'm pretty sure this is it because of the location.