I just do not understand anything… So far 11 dead bodies in a house and you can smell them out side and all around the house and no one called the police. The police came and talked to the killer and do not notice anything. Plus if you are talking to a suspect don’t you look, listen and smell? Don’t you use all your senses? The chief or someone said the police could not go in his house because he was not on probation. They could have asked to be invited in…They could have said why don’t we talk inside…or something.
Police must have been on patrol in the area and they never notice anything? Where they driving around with their windows all up. Even in the hot summer and cold winter I often had my windows down. Not all the time but much of the time… I was looking and listening and paying attention.
One time, a long time ago, I was working security at St. Joseph Hospital (Kansas City, MO). I had a four channel crystal scanner…That is how long ago it was…I was working in the parking lot. I could hear in an apartment building next to the parking lot a couple screaming at each other…Then I heard the KCPD dispatch an officer to check the area for a couple fighting. I saw the officer drive up and stop in front of the building. I could hear the screaming from where I was…He had his windows up on his car and I heard him on the radio call in and say he could not hear anything and it was an un-founded call and he would be back in service.
One time in the same parking lot two officers from a special unit parked in the parking lot. They were there to respond to the bank on the next block if it was held up. The both fell asleep in the car and their car run out of gas.
I suspect now things are worst. You are going to office police and security officers on their cell phones all the time talking to their wife and then all day to their girl friend. Or you are going to have them on laptop computers playing a game or surfing the Internet.
I know high tech hardware and software costs money but we need more of it in many areas. Most of all in police work. All police cars should have video units. Dispatch and Supervisors should have the ability to access the video in real time. I think the way it works now is if something happens then they look at the video.
All police cars should have GPS tracking devices. Dispatch should have the ability to see on map their location at all times and details such as speed and other information.
Back in the early 70s I worked for a private security company called Watchman’s Service. They were located in Overland Park (KS). All their cars had a big device in the trunk of the car and this device had a round paper in it and everything about our car was recorded on that paper, in ink, how long we drove and at what speeds, the RPM of the car etc.
How did i get on this subject? God help me.. I am getting to old.
I think the police need to get back to basic police work… There are to many special units and people running around doing nothing. I bet their are to many “police officers” sitting in offices typing on computer screens.
If I were the chief of police of a major city I would spend one hour of my day in a patrol car. If the mayor needed to talk to me he could just get his ass out of his office and come out side and get in the patrol car with me. Then all of the officer under me would have to do the same thing except they would have to spend more than one hour in the patrol car.
Oh well..enough of this… No one is listening and no one cares.
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The root of the problem is the ratio of good officers to citizens. Note I said good officers because even back in the day when areas had officers walking a regular beat, many of them could be bribed, or worse, they made people pay for their “close attention”. So no perfect answers.
As to how it may have smelled from the front door? Who knows what the neighborhood itself smells like on any given day? I didn’t follow the story closely, perhaps some links to it would have helped? Did they specifically mention a stench inside the house after they eventually did get the warrants and enter?