Originally Posted by
Medic Zero
In my experience, they (the police) just don't care. I was purposely hit by a car, with multiple witnesses who had the license plate number and the responding police officer refused to do anything. He said I could follow up with Homicide, who told me they were too busy (in Seattle!) to help with mere attempted homicide! They ever so helpfully pointed to a giant stack of mug shot books and offered for me to go through them to see if I could ID the guy. When I asked them to just look up his address from the license plate number they refused.
Lots of cops in the US are jerks.
That is when you bump it up the chain of command; all the while documenting who your talking to and what responses you are getting. Eventually you'll get to the DA; whom if they also refuse to respond now gives you ample evidence to go to a local news outlet (you did keep the records I just suggested right?) and/or a civil attorney.
The police are not the final arbiter, only the first ones you should contact about criminal activity.