Cleveland police criticised as city asks: why were women not found sooner?

[TheMadMonk]

41. People DID report it. Not a great many, but a few.

It's a well known fact, that the majority of people prefer not to get involved.

That people project their own personal knowledge onto others, and figure that if no one else is saying anything, they shouldn't either.

They assume their own report would be superfluous, becasue some one else must have already reported something so egregious.

It's also well known that people who won't come all the way forward voluntariliy, WILL nevertheless respond to direct questioning.

All this and more is well known by the police, THIS IS WHY THEY CANVAS A NEIGHBOURHOOD when investigating a crime.


The failure was not in the community, the failure was in the way the police investigated the few reports that WERE brought to official notice. They, basically did the absolute minnimum necessary to close out the reports, and did so with the aim of sparing themselves trouble, little to no thought at all seems to have been directed at determining whether there was in fact a crime to answer for or not.