Report it to the police!
Steve Cole and Steve Petrick report: Last night, a female friend of the corporate family had an incident with a gentleman who appeared at her home, acted suspiciously, asked questions that made no sense, and asked her to lock up her dog so they could talk more. She told him to leave and made it clear that the dog was staying right where he was, in between her and him.
When she mentioned the incident to us in an Email this morning, we both told her to write down everything she could remember, call the police, and give the report to them. (We told her to do this three separate times and then compare the details and give the cops the most complete data she could, down to what kind of watch he was wearing, clothes he was wearing, car he was driving, specific phrases he used.) Everybody who has any encounter with somebody seriously suspicious should do this.
Sure, the cops are not going to "do" anything, not right now. They cannot go roust every 30 year old male in the county and put all 37,000 of them in a line up.
What they CAN do and presumably will do is file the report electronically and sometime, sooner or later, this guy will be in enough reports by enough women that data mining will link the cases. If you have six women attacked and/or threatened, and three of them all mention the same wrist watch, then you know those three cases are related. If you can then match the car that one of the wrist watch women reported to the other reports, the cops will know that all six are the same guy. Then they can take ALL of the details from ALL of the reports, including details only one woman mentioned, and build a much better picture of who needs to be in that line up.
Modern technology has seriously reduced the crime rate. Give the cops the information to build the case. If the police don't take you seriously, send the report to the FBI and the state police and the county sheriff.
When she mentioned the incident to us in an Email this morning, we both told her to write down everything she could remember, call the police, and give the report to them. (We told her to do this three separate times and then compare the details and give the cops the most complete data she could, down to what kind of watch he was wearing, clothes he was wearing, car he was driving, specific phrases he used.) Everybody who has any encounter with somebody seriously suspicious should do this.
Sure, the cops are not going to "do" anything, not right now. They cannot go roust every 30 year old male in the county and put all 37,000 of them in a line up.
What they CAN do and presumably will do is file the report electronically and sometime, sooner or later, this guy will be in enough reports by enough women that data mining will link the cases. If you have six women attacked and/or threatened, and three of them all mention the same wrist watch, then you know those three cases are related. If you can then match the car that one of the wrist watch women reported to the other reports, the cops will know that all six are the same guy. Then they can take ALL of the details from ALL of the reports, including details only one woman mentioned, and build a much better picture of who needs to be in that line up.
Modern technology has seriously reduced the crime rate. Give the cops the information to build the case. If the police don't take you seriously, send the report to the FBI and the state police and the county sheriff.
posted by Federation Commander at 1:14 PM
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