Do you wanna know what the cops said one time when we called them to report
people who had broken into a (nice) empty home, and who were living there,
while also stealing all the personal belongings left by the former
residents, in addition to ripping off the fireplace mantle and any other
saleable items?
After refusing to go inside the building to get the bums, the cop said,
"Homeless people need a place to sleep, too."   !!!



----- Original Message -----
From: "Gayle Rodgers - Rodgers, Ramsey, Inc." <gayle@rodgers-ramsey.com>
To: <emca@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: *EMCA* Neglected vacant lots


> Great Scott!  This is definitely worth making an issue of.  I plan to
print it
> out and send it to both Sgt. Vollert and take it to a meeting with the
Captain of
> our district October 4.
>
> Could provide me with the dates of the specific incident with the men?
Please
> send directly to my e-mail at gayle@rodgers-ramsey.com or call me at
> 713-529-7010.
>
> Gayle Ramsey
>
>
> Jldag@aol.com wrote:
>
> > I had a similar experience, but I was hoping it was isolated.  I sent
e-mail
> > complaints four times and received no reply.  I went down and filled out
> > written complaints twice.  On my third trip, the (clueless) officer
checked,
> > and there was no record of any complaint.  Finally, six weeks after my
> > initial complaint, I got some response.  Interestingly, although HPD has
made
> > a big deal out of its claim that it will enforce code violations now,
the
> > officer told me that most of the things I was complaining about were
code
> > violations that he could not do anything about.
> >
> > I am utterly disgusted with HPD's responsiveness in our neighborhood.  I
> > never see cars patrolling.  They tell us to call about suspicious
persons
> > etc., but then they seem annoyed when we do.  We called at 3:00 a.m. one
> > morning because there were two men in the new constuction next to us.
The
> > officers responded, and we stayed on the phone with dispatch so we could
> > direct the officers to where the men were in the structure.  They
rousted one
> > of the an LET HIM GO.  Although we told them where the other one was,
they
> > never even went to look for him.  Twenty minutes later, the first one
was
> > back.  A few days later, there were two more men on the lot, one of them
> > chasing the other and beating him with a pipe.  We called 911 while this
was
> > in progress, and HPD showed up 30 minutes later.
> >
> > Finally, I have had so much stuff stolen from my porch and yard lately
that I
> > have started putting things I don't want out there knowing that someone
will
> > take them.
> >
> > Thanks for letting me vent.
> >
> >
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