For sure they know, it’s just cops are lazy and aren’t paid to solve crimes
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frezik@midwest.social 1 year ago
I’m a little surprised the police didn’t already know about that method. Seems like they’d encounter enough CCTV footage that’d it’d be standard training.
I once again overestimate the training levels of the police.
fox@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Laticauda@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I imagine it’s utilized in more “serious” investigations and they just can’t be arsed for theft.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In the US most their training involves how to be more aggressive veiled as training to be assertive.
BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s a somewhat narrow situation. You won’t always have the object of interest in plain view of a camera. What if it’s behind a door? Well now you do have to scrub through all the footage
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They probably do know. They just aren’t meant for protecting your personal property
tiramichu@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Right.
What they really want to say is “We aren’t interested in investigating your personal theft. Things get stolen all the time and we really can’t be bothered. You are not important to us.”
But they can’t say that, so they instead come up with some excuse that puts the onus back on the other person.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 year ago
You dont quite understand.
They aren’t here to protect your property.
Or you, really.
Not unless you have a couple million in assets, then all of a sudden it’s all hands on deck, let’s get this bicycle back.
Vant@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m sorry about your head injury.
Rediphile@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
They can, and do, say that.
SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I dunno. “Don’t attribute to malice what can be sufficiently explained by stupidity.” I can totally believe that the average police officer has not thought this through. “5 hours of footage! We don’t have 5 hours to look for one bike.”
be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 1 year ago
Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
And Detective Conan Doyle O’Brien really did just let his bro fuck around and watch porn and even bring a stripper into the station during footage reviewing hours. Of course, Stuart was quite shocked to hear he was not invited to the stag do later that weekend