Fishin Fool
Well-known member
This is just a heads up for people living in Chattanooga. I have no idea if the county is having the same issues.
About 2 weeks ago my neighbor's daughter was coming home from college class and found 2 black men sitting in a car in the drive way. When she pulled in, they pulled out, almost running into her. She got out of her car to find that someone had broken into her mom's car by breaking a window and gotten a GPS out. She called her mom and her mom called 911. When she called 911 she was told that she could give a report over the phone, that they did not have the resources to send a car to every vehicle break-in. Mind you, this was in the middle of the day, about 1 pm. She explained that they had a description of the car, the people in the car. The dispatcher told her that she would still not send a car, but that they would take a report over the phone for insurance purposes!
My place was robbed at gunpoint about a year or so back and police responded fairly quickly to a silent alarm. We were told that a detective would be along shortly to gather evidence (we had the guy on video tape) and get statements. Finally after 3 hours of waiting and numerous calls (it was late, about 1230 at night) to the police department I left. 3 weeks later a detective called! Even then he didn't want to come by, prefering instead to take a report/statement by phone.
The story doesn't end here. About a week later I pulled into my business at night around 8pm and noticed a car sitting in a vacant bank lot across the street. There were two black males in it, watching my store. I went back outside in about 10 minutes and they were still sitting there so I called 911 and explained about being robbed the previous week. They said they would send a car. Long story short, I waited for over an hour, made numerous calls to the police and a car never arrived. I finally got in MY car, drove toward the two guys, only to have them panic and peel out of the lot. I chased them down Amnicola Hwy, and finally lost them at a light when traffic got in the way. They were so desperate to lose me that they ran INTO a ditch and torn part of the bumper off their car and kept right on going. No tags on the car at all. I drove back to my store, got there around 945, no cop. FINALLY as I was getting ready to set the security system, he showed up!
What is happening to the City Police? Is anyone else having this issue? These issues are not isolated either. When speaking with my customers I hear this day in and day out; no police response. What is going on?
About 2 weeks ago my neighbor's daughter was coming home from college class and found 2 black men sitting in a car in the drive way. When she pulled in, they pulled out, almost running into her. She got out of her car to find that someone had broken into her mom's car by breaking a window and gotten a GPS out. She called her mom and her mom called 911. When she called 911 she was told that she could give a report over the phone, that they did not have the resources to send a car to every vehicle break-in. Mind you, this was in the middle of the day, about 1 pm. She explained that they had a description of the car, the people in the car. The dispatcher told her that she would still not send a car, but that they would take a report over the phone for insurance purposes!
My place was robbed at gunpoint about a year or so back and police responded fairly quickly to a silent alarm. We were told that a detective would be along shortly to gather evidence (we had the guy on video tape) and get statements. Finally after 3 hours of waiting and numerous calls (it was late, about 1230 at night) to the police department I left. 3 weeks later a detective called! Even then he didn't want to come by, prefering instead to take a report/statement by phone.
The story doesn't end here. About a week later I pulled into my business at night around 8pm and noticed a car sitting in a vacant bank lot across the street. There were two black males in it, watching my store. I went back outside in about 10 minutes and they were still sitting there so I called 911 and explained about being robbed the previous week. They said they would send a car. Long story short, I waited for over an hour, made numerous calls to the police and a car never arrived. I finally got in MY car, drove toward the two guys, only to have them panic and peel out of the lot. I chased them down Amnicola Hwy, and finally lost them at a light when traffic got in the way. They were so desperate to lose me that they ran INTO a ditch and torn part of the bumper off their car and kept right on going. No tags on the car at all. I drove back to my store, got there around 945, no cop. FINALLY as I was getting ready to set the security system, he showed up!
What is happening to the City Police? Is anyone else having this issue? These issues are not isolated either. When speaking with my customers I hear this day in and day out; no police response. What is going on?
