Thinks police should be more flexible in helping people
I was at Wal-Mart tonight (Friday) around 7:30 p.m. There was an older man in the parking lot with a cut on his face below the eye. He was asking for a ride home.
He told me that he had been mugged at McDonald’s (across the street) and filed a police report, but the police would not give him a ride home.
You can never be too sure about people today so I phoned 911 and asked for a police car to come get the man and take him home. The woman at 911 said to tell the man to call a cab. I almost shouted at her, “He’s been mugged! He doesn’t have any money for a cab.” She told me that’s all she could do. I again asked, “Can’t the police give him a ride home?” She again said they don’t do that. So I asked to be connected to a policeman. She said she would have someone call me. Nobody ever returned my call.
If it is the policy of our police department not to assist people in need, then something needs to be done to correct this.
Bob Raymond
Columbus
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