Yes, absolutely report it to the Philadelphia Police, with as thorough a description of what happened,, where, date, time of day. Call the 18th District Community Relations Officer, PO Mike Davis, (215) 686-3268.
Even though your report may not result in an arrest for your crime, it can give police valuable information that could lead to their arrest in the future. Your report will alert the police that they should be on the lookout in your neighborhood for similar crimes. Your info, combined with reports from other neighborhood victims, will alert the police that there is a pattern of crime that must be addressed. Not reporting it leaves no chance of the perpetrators being caught.
Once the police realize there is a pattern as to location, time of day, what was done, description of the perps (if known), they can put the information out at police roll call (which alerts patrol officers as to what to look out for) and they can also put plain clothes cops out in unmarked cars in the affected area. This gives the police info that they can use in finding the perpetrators - they may not get apprehended for what they did to you, but if at least if the Philly PD knows about it, they can be on the lookout for similar activity in the area. Even if they turn out to be eight year olds.
As for reporting it to the UCD, the Philadelphia Police keeps crime stats, and they have to power to arrest. The UCD cannot arrest anyone.
The only way the Philadelphia police can fight crime is when they know it occurs, so please report it to them.
Karen
From: Kyle Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Kyle Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'University City List '" <[email protected]> Subject: [UC] our neighbors go a-wilding Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:22:50 -0400
Sometime yesterday we had an incident...
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