Cops and snitching

[1-M-42]

31 years on, I've never heard of an officer dropping a dime on the calling party. That's just common sense.

[danger707]

That's whats keeping me from calling the cops on my neighbors everyday, I'm afraid they might tell them who called the cops on them. My downstairs neighbors are a bunch of teen (no one is older than 17)who have no supervision and all they do every f..ing day is smoke weed. I'm so sick and tired of smelling weed everytime I walk downstairs. What worries me the most is my little sister smelling it when she comes home from school, theres only one way to my apartment and we have to walk by their apartment everytime. My little sister complains about too, shes only ten and she know when there smoking. Frankly I don't care who smokes weed or you think if its good or bad I just dont want that around my sister. I haven't called the cops cause i don't want them finding out who called them, I know they wont stop with just one visit from the local PD I'm going to have to do it everytime I smell that stench so i could get them to stop.

[415dog!]

If it is not illegal I am thinking it SHOULD be.. No way a bad person should know who called on them... Total B.S.

my experience is that most of the "crimes" people want to remain anonymous
on reporting are crimes that are subjective to the reporting party being a "victim" . people call the police, remain anonymous and expect people to just comply with an officer's request. When i ask people if they want the person arrested under a private person arrest they say no. when we get calls that are anonymous, usually after the 2nd call we ask if they are willing victims, often times they dont call a third...

and +1 on the suspects know who called

[Gnome]

Having worked with Retired, I followed the same procedures as he did. Informant confidentiality is important.

I work for the same department as Retired and Ron. Our deprtment even has a radio code that lets us know not to contact the informant.

[fullrearview]

I am curious; is that your dept. policy or is it left up to the individual officer's discretion to either inform or not.

In either instance, are you or the dept. not worried about not only what could happen to the informant (acts of vandalism, informant attacked or even killed) as a result of the now suspect being told by an officer who the informant was, but also the liability that may ensue from providing that info in a civil trial.

Thanks.

No....The area I work is so small, they really know who made the call! Most of our calls come from one of two poop hole places. The rest from a ski resort, and the remaining from turning over rocks (proactive patrol). Nov. and Dec is dead call wise, so we have to turn over rocks to keep from going crazy!

I arrested most of our problem children, so its been even slower right now!

[tyrist]

You do understand if the Officers don't see the act and you don't actually advise them personally of the crime they won't be arrested.

Even if the Officers do see the act juvenile vandalism is handle by a citation not arrest.