Re: Stolen credit card details
From a victim's perspective, I WANT world peace, but nothing ever gets done without getting off your *** and doing something about it. From my point of view most cops are lazy slobs who only enforce the laws they think cause them the least amount of headaches. Ignored are any laws which require them to jump through any kind of hoops or cause any type of friction on an interdepartmental level. The .01% of police who may give a crap about enforcing ALL laws, not just the easy to enforce ones certainly don't fit the bill. Laws prevent citizens from persuing suspects, yet the police won't get out of their air conditioned cars unless they have something to gain from it or it will cause more of a headache not to. Citizen protection and justice never even enter the picture.
Prior to my identity theft 9 years ago, I found a stack of forged documents belonging to my roommate. I delivered them to the police department and they said there was no need for them to makes copies. A report was filed and nothing was done. Days later, the same roommate was charged with assault, my bank and investment accounts were overdrawn by over $100K (with a K) and I came home to a completely cleaned out apartment. Even after gathering evidence on my own (with no money mind you, since I no longer had any), the police refused to open even a fraud investigation and the FBI wouldn't even return my phones calls. To this day my credit is still a mess from that guy, I was sued for $40K that I didn't have, instead having all of my vehicles taken from me, and he served a whopping 4 years in prison after I practically staulked a DA until he prosecuted him.
To me, there is no such thing as a cop who gives two of anything for private citizens. If it doesn't negatively impact them, nothing will be done, no matter how many lives it ruins.
As for the forged documents the police didn't bother taking copies of? Two of them turned out to be DUI arrests he used my name in and I had arrest warrants out on me stemming from them. The police in both cases never even bothered to confirm his identity, as if they did one stitch of effort to check, they would have quickly realized I am a white male and he was a black male.. not too much confusion there. So never ever think you are safe just because you follow the rules. The police could care less if you did it or not. If some DUI crook says he is you, they will believe him. I had two arrest warrants against me proving that.
