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On Sun, 3 May 2026 22:33:59 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
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ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
"We've got rid of gonorrhea and replaced it with the clap."
A crime gets recorded on the basis of a lunatic making a complaint.
There has been no investigation, just consideration of the probability
that a crime occurred.
The record may only be removed by the chief constable.
Now is that the chief constable of the police service or is it the
local detachment chief?
I wouldn't be too worried if they were kept for say 14 days then
auto-cancelled if not confirmed by a senior officer.
If the police have evidence a crime MAY have been committed then by
all means investigate but if the evidence doesn't stand up then of
course it should be cancelled. I've seen a couple like that in our
neighborhood though don't believe they've led to charges.
And of course if there is more than one suspect they might well decide
they have enough evidence to charge A but not B (for instance, our
store was once burglarized and they got away with about $25000 of our merchandise. This was around 6 am and fortunately for us there was a
fellow across the street with a cell phone who photographed the whole
thing including licence plate number of the get-away car. They had
the driver and the burglar at a radar stop on the highway to a bridge
when the police radio'd out the plate number. In the end recovered all
but about $100 of the merchandise and the deductible on our glass
coverage) The burglar was convicted (so we got our stuff back which I
had to identify with the police sergeant - I got back to my car and
found a ticket on it which I took inside to the sergeant and said "you
know as well as I do what we were doing these last two hours" and he
just laughed said "official business" then said "give me the ticket"
and that was the last I heard of it)
The getaway car was owned by the burglar's mother and the driver was
acquitted of burglary since he never left the car nor entered our
premises.
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