In a message dated 7/17/2002 9:33:33 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> All the advice Dan has gotten so far relates to how to make sure his car
> is not broken into again. Important, yes, but what about the lack of
> response from the police department when it seems clear that
> SuperAmerica has evidence, but the MPD seems unwilling to even look at it?
>
> Any advice for Dan on how to deal with that?
>
> Cara Letofsky
> Seward
The case of Dan's stolen credit card was probably closed after the
preliminary report was filed. The MPD assigns 2 officers per police precinct
(there are 4 or 5 police precincts) to investigate residential property
crimes, and
they generally don't investigate car thefts and car break-ins, even in some
of the city's more fashionable neighborhoods.
On two occasions I have had the privilege of getting two separate cars
stolen from me in the city of Minneapolis.
On the morning of Friday, April 12, 2002 I got a call from a Minneapolis
resident who told me that my car had been stripped-down and abandoned
in a parkling lot near 38th and Portland, and that over a dozen other
stripped-down cars had been dumped in that particular lot during the
past year. The police were on the scene. My car was totaled: the
steering column was destroyed, the doors had been removed, the
truck lock was punched out, etc.
In 1985, I initially reported a car as "missing." It was recovered, parked
illegally next to a fire plug, with a broken window, and the collar on the
steering column was cut away. A tool used to turn the ignition switch,
a modified screw driver, was left on the floor. I was charged with parking
it illegally. An employee at the impound lot laughed and said "you got
to be kidding" when I said that I wanted the police report amended, or
have a new one filed, so that the theft of my car would be investigated.
-Doug Mann, King Field, the new 8th ward
>
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