Originally posted by CSATEXAS
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It might’ve been 20 years ago when a lady complained of drug dealing in her neighborhood and gave some information to the police. A few months later I was talking to her and she was complaining that the police never did anything with her information, they were lazy and blah blah blah. I asked her if they were still dealing in her neighborhood and she said that no, the best she could tell they were not but the police still did not help her.
Well I was on the raid with a warrant when we hit that house since I was on the swat team at the time. We found the drugs and filed the felony charges. The guy had already pleaded guilty to the charges and have been sentenced. The woman thought we did not take her complaint seriously but the guys were convicted partly from her information. It’s just takes time and I wish someone from the narcotics unit would have given her at least a little bit of the information but they did not. Since the guy pleaded guilty, there was no need for any other witnesses and she was simply not informed. She should have been at least out of a courtesy.
I think many times the police move forward with cases and the people that originated the complaint may not even know it and charges have been filed and maybe a person has already been to court. Even if they were informed, sometimes it takes so long to get to trial that it again, looks like nothing is being done. I’m not saying that some police are not without faults but a lot of times cases get hung up in the system. A lot of times, it isn’t the police out of the hold up. An arrest the day of the crime might not get to court for quite a while.
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