[pmorici]

"police protection"

I've had the misfortune of having to deal with the police of two different police departments this year. In the first instance my car was stolen, in the second someone ran into my car that was parked on the side of the road. In both instances the Police were totally incompetent and arguably caused me more financial damage than the criminal and the out of control driver.

Here is how; Once the Police "recovered" my stolen car I had to pay their towing company of choice about $400 to get my car back. In the second case they have taken over a month to issue the police report about the accident; my insurance company won't pay to have the car fixed until they have the report so I've had to front the costs in the mean time and hope that they get their act together at some point.

I think I would have been better off in both situations if there had been no police and my taxes were a bit lower.

[sophacles]

So you'd rather pay some company the hourly to locate you car because they throw a tow in for "free"?

[pmorici]

I'd rather they just left it where it was found and let me know where it was so I could go get it. The car was only worth a couple grand to begin with so paying 400 bucks to bail it out of car jail was not something I wanted to do and on top of it they said if I decided it wasn't worth it they would sell it and come after me for the 400+ bucks anyways. Had I realized the police were so predatory I would have just installed a GPS tracker on it so in the event it was stolen I could recover it myself.