“Serino just said that GZ was in vehicle when told not to follow —” Weren’t the dispatchers words something like “We don’t need you to do that”?
Our neighborhood has been burglarized several times and we now DO follow strangers who wander in and ask if there’s anything we can do to help them, ie Are they lost , etc. They just say no and leave. It takes upwards of an hour for any police to respond so a Neighborhood Watch may have prevented more crime.
The dispatchers wording were NOT an order to me. And, yes, everyone of those assholes got away with burglaries before we actually started watching.
Dispatchers worried about liability. Likely told to instruct people NOT to confront anyone committing a crime and just wait for police.