It’s happening far too often to be explained away by incompetence.
The police officers who go to the “wrong houses” are doing so because they expect they will receive no backlash for doing so.
And don’t worry, *next* time they’ll get the right address.
Besides, the ladder thief might have (gasp) shot AT our blue uniformed ‘hero’. A law-abiding citizen minding his own business and not on the alert for a trigger happy officer?
Easy prey.
“Easy prey.”
I once had a nice long conversation at my front door with a cop who had the wrong address. He never suspected that the hand he couldn’t see had a .44 magnum in it.