Topic: Is there any way to get increased police presence in a neighborhood?

[Bill, Idaho]

    I work for Canyon County Sheriff's Office and have for the last 20 years. I know of NO time when our dispatch has ever received a call for a "burg-in-progress"  and we haven't responded. That simply does not happen.   A burg-in-progress call is WAY up the priority list. Even if every deputy was already on a call at the time of the call coming into dispatch, they would clear at least one deputy and drag a few out of civil, and/or even the detectives.
     And to say we didn't even take a report sounds highly inprobable.  The public wouldn't believe what we take reports on.  There is no way a "burg-in-progress" call would come into dispatch that we would not go to, investigate, and follow-up on, much less without a paper trail (report).   
    Depending on exactly where is is in relation to Linden and Farmway, it very well might have been Caldwell Police, not Canyon County Sheriff's Office. There are numerous enclaved areas around there.
    And I am not making it sound like I'm pawning it off on CPD. They have almost the exact same response/paperwork policies.
   (Off the record:a  "burg-in-progress" call is the kind of call we jump over each other to go to! Usually the shift supervisor has to throttle us back, rather than prod us to get going! We don't get very many chances to catch a burglar in the act, so we hop on them.)

[Bill, Idaho]

And by the way....... I was talking about coyotes earlier.   

[carracer]

To update my previous post about the burglery in progress.

I just phoned my sister in law to get clarification.  It occurred about 20 years ago (My how time flies when you get old!).  They did not call ccso directly.  They dialed 911, so it's hard to say who they talked to.  They do live in CCSOarea, however, and not in Cald PD area. 

Still amazes me that one of the departments should have been dispatched the call and no report was taken.  Perhaps the 911 dispatch didn't know who to notify so didn't notify anyone?

[Batwing]

Several years ago my Bro-In-Law, with my children in his car with him, came home to a burglary in progress at his house.  Scumbags packing out his stuff into a vw microbus in his back yard.  He called Canyon Co. Sheriff dept. while watching them.  Not only did they not respond, they didn't even come out to take a report.  Not like he lived way out of town...farmway and linden.

What? No way.


I've spent a lot of time in that PSAP and heard a lot of calls come in and get dispatched and
all calls are treated as they should be.  Those dispatchers would never do something like that, and neither would the guys in the field.  Like Bill said, a call like that would result in a "flys on shit" situation. 
That 911 center dispatches all agencies in Canyon County EXCEPT Nampa PD and Fire, and I am not sure what agency precisely is responsible for that area of patrol (CCSO vs CPD).

[carracer]

As I mentioned in my above post.  Turned out to be 20 years ago insstead of "several" and the call went to 911 not directly to ccso.  As confirmed by my sister in law the results I remembered were accurate.  I'm sure those in positions of authority or response at any level are retired or have left service sometime ago leaving a more responsible department.

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I'm just advancing a donut stereotype.

[Batwing]

Probably. 


Sure would not happen today though.