and it has nothing to do with JWdom, but I am really bothered and would appreciate some feedback.
Thursday night there was a horrible hit/run in the street by my house. A man was run down by an angry youth. Our local law enforcement has waited until today, Tuesday, to return to the scene and do forensic analysis. They have been out there in a van for over an hour, setting up a table, wearing gloves, measuring, taking photos, walking up & down & all around.
My ?? is, why on earth would they wait four rainy days to return to the scene and look for evidence? What the heck do they think will still be there after the torrential downpours we've had since then? What will they recover with the surgical gloves that hasn't been compromised by the four days exposure to wind & rain? The scene was not taped off or touched until today. Cars have parked right on the spot where the guy was hit. Kids have skateboarded there, played kickball, driven RC cars. A neighbor swept up the site the day after the incident.
I am genuinely dismayed at this. The perp is still at large, although he has been identified conclusively. They can't seem to find the kid or the car he stole/borrowed to do the deed, although he has been around town and spoken to some of his peers at least thru Friday.
Is this typical police operating procedure? We live in a tiny rural county seat, it's not like crime is rampant around here, so I have to wonder what took so long for them to do this forensic sweep? Am I missing some obvious thing, or am I right to be appalled at this?
I tend to cast a jaundiced eye on governmental anything, residue of JWdom and freakdom, but even making allowances this still seems to me a form of shocking bureaucratic inefficiency. Maybe I just need schoolin' in police methodology?
Meanwhile we have no idea if the victim survived or not. Local press has reported exactly zip...
Gathering her gruntles, recently dissed,
Mommie D.