In the case of missing women, I'm kind of split down the middle on that. There is an absolutely insane number of missing women (missing people in general, really) in Cleveland - black, white, Hispanic and more - and I think the lack of effort put into searching for them has more to do with their record and less to do with their race. I definitely can't say that for certain, and I'm also not saying that makes it any better, but missing persons cases tend to get pushed to the back burner in Cleveland, especially when the person in question has disappeared before.
Our police department is usually responding to the daily calls of domestic violence, gang violence, shootings, stabbings, discovery of dead bodies - all the usual stuff. In fact, when I first heard the news last week of "two decomposing bodies discovered in East Cleveland house," I didn't even really bat an eye. I hear about it so often that I've grown numb to it (which disturbs me on a personal level, but that's a different story).
Point is, the police department stretched beyond thin in a city that has a crime rate four times as high as the national average. We have incompetent officers on the streets. The city is pretty damn broke, and there was a lack of funding for hiring and training new officers. Their solution? They moved what essentially amount to rent-a-cops from Cleveland Hopkins airport to the streets.
I'll refrain from getting into the corrupted city government, which I think has trickled down into public safety. It's a shame, because Cleveland really is a great city; it's just that there's nobody looking out for it.
What sets off my hackles it the fact that the smell of a cadaver is not like the smell of a sausage, and you'd think the police would be trained to recognize that smell. Considering they were at the guy's house the very same day he assaulted another woman (and only a few weeks after another woman jumped out of the friggin' bedroom window), what's the reason for the lack of suspicion? Seriously, how many red flags does it take?
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Date: 2009-11-05 04:29 pm (UTC)Our police department is usually responding to the daily calls of domestic violence, gang violence, shootings, stabbings, discovery of dead bodies - all the usual stuff. In fact, when I first heard the news last week of "two decomposing bodies discovered in East Cleveland house," I didn't even really bat an eye. I hear about it so often that I've grown numb to it (which disturbs me on a personal level, but that's a different story).
Point is, the police department stretched beyond thin in a city that has a crime rate four times as high as the national average. We have incompetent officers on the streets. The city is pretty damn broke, and there was a lack of funding for hiring and training new officers. Their solution? They moved what essentially amount to rent-a-cops from Cleveland Hopkins airport to the streets.
I'll refrain from getting into the corrupted city government, which I think has trickled down into public safety. It's a shame, because Cleveland really is a great city; it's just that there's nobody looking out for it.
What sets off my hackles it the fact that the smell of a cadaver is not like the smell of a sausage, and you'd think the police would be trained to recognize that smell. Considering they were at the guy's house the very same day he assaulted another woman (and only a few weeks after another woman jumped out of the friggin' bedroom window), what's the reason for the lack of suspicion? Seriously, how many red flags does it take?