Posted on 05/07/2013 8:14:39 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
Police knocked on the door of the home where three missing girls were held captive for a decade - but found nothing, it was revealed today.
Officers visited the home on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio in 2004 as part of a child services' investigation but left when no one answered.
Police had been alerted to the man living at the home, Ariel Castro, now a suspect in the abduction, after he inadvertently left a boy at a bus depot while working as a school bus driver. No criminal charges were brought and no follow-up inquiries made.
Amanda Berry, 26, and Gina DeJesus, 23, and Michelle Knight, 32, escaped the home on Monday night, where it is believed they had been chained in the basement for ten years.
Questions will now be asked as to how police and federal investigators failed to find the girls who remained undetected at the home just three miles from the block where they all went missing.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“Officers visited the home on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio in 2004 as part of a child services’ investigation but left when no one answered.
Just like the sheriff’s deputies did here in Contra Costa County, California when called to the “compound” by neighbors who were suspicious that Jaycee Lee Dugard was being held there. But drive a couple of MPH over the speed limit, and these, “protectors of the public” will have you to the side of the road. LEOs, how far you have fallen from your sworn duties. Or is it that you just don’t care about anything but your paychecks and retirement?
I wonder if someone had reported a tea party looking guy with an AR at that residence what would have happened. Perhaps swarms of drones, SWAT from every possible local department, ATF, FBI, DEA, Homeland Security etc and a few armored vehicles. When no one answered, flood the place with tear gas and storm the door too??
There was an interview this morning on the radio with a neighbor who claimed that that house and its activities were reported several times — once by someone who said they saw 3 women being led around by 3 men.
“Expect more of this behavior with imposition of Sharia in the future !!”
And take a look at this camel humper in prison in Colorado for slavery who, by all account may well have had the warden in the facility killed. BTW, he’s a Saudi and connected to Obama’s ring kissing buddies in the Saudi “royal family.”
They still can’t do squat without a warrant.
“Without a warrant, yeah that’s pretty much it. “
What a laugh, a warrant? Just when do they need that to bust into your home? Take a look at what happened in Boston in the aftermath of the bombing! They don’t got to even show you no stinking badges! My guess is that it was past their coffee and doughnut break!
You have such a benign view of criminal justice.
I have always felt that a lot of these things break down at the 911 dispatch level. The dispatchers make the decision - and if you listen to the call even in this case, you can see that the dispatcher wasn’t taking it very seriously - and that determines the degree of police or emergency services response.
I had to call 911 about somebody who was having either a seizure or a major drug reaction in the middle of the street a couple of days ago, and they spent more time questioning me about myself than they did trying to get help out. I still don’t know if the woman ever got any help.
Just send the cops out to make a field report, if nothing else. (In my town, they’re not usually doing anything else anyway.) Who knows what they’ll find? For example, in the case I mentioned above, I suspect that the woman actually was “tweaking” in a major way, and I’m pretty sure she had just come out of one of the motels along the street where I was driving. So if the cops had come, they could have ended up doing a meth bust, since transients are always cooking meth in these motel rooms.
But the dispatchers seem to have other priorities, and I think we need to look at their approach.
and when they’re not lazy, they get called ‘jack-booted thugs’
The girls they kidnapped were between 17 and 20, right?
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Ah....no. Try reading the story.
All Police departments have thermal imaging equipment — the same that was used to locate the Joker hiding in the boat. The authorities have many ways of determining how many people are living in a house.
Baloney — if they knock on the door and no one answers and they know someone lives in there, they sure can.
How do you think they find people dead in their houses???
In this case they could have asked the owner and everyone else inside to step outside and answer some questions while thermal imaging equipment scanned the house.
“And here you are throwing a tantrum that they didn’t do the same this time.
Speaks far more poorly of you than it does police in Cleveland.”
Oh that’s rich! So let me understand you, the cops did all the could right? No mistakes were made here because they always follow the law. So what happened in Boston? Or in LA for that matter when they were shooting up pickups looking for the rogue cop? You’re so so articulate on this matter! Most cops have size 44 coveralls and size 4 hats. Give me a break!
Officers visited the home on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio in 2004 as part of a child services' investigation but left when no one answered.
jeez, no one's home lets come back in 10 years..
The police cheif should be FIRED...
The cops looked in the window and didn’t see any Gadsden flags or Bibles, so they left.
They weren’t investigating a kidnapping at the time. This is all 20/20 hindsight BS. The visit was based on the complaint of a bus driver leaving a kid at a stop. That’s not a “break the doors down if no one answers” type of call.
If it had been your house and the police broke in because you weren’t home in order to investigate a routine incident, how would you react? Outraged, I’d assume. So why is it OK to say that the police should have gone to these measures in this case when they were investigating a totally unrelated non-violent crime?
It’s the same thing as people hearing stuff that isn’t said...people will read/see what they want
You are nothing but a coward hiding behind your desire for selective interpretations of the constitution.
You’re no less a problem then the very people you call jackbooted thugs.
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