tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post3522351496731876119..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-12674409964003652332009-07-12T06:58:08.954-05:002009-07-12T06:58:08.954-05:00<b>CT, police arrest people all the time because they &quot;think&quot; a crime has been committed. That&#39;s their job.</b><br /><br />What are you talking about? Police, hopefully, arrest people when they have probable cause to believe a crime has been committed. Police, hopefully, detained a few of these customers when they had reasonable suspicion that criminal activity was afoot.<br /><br />Just because someone shows up with some scrap metal doesn&#39;t mean a crime has been committed. The problem with these cases are that they usually lack a victim. The question is, did anyone from IMPD take these informational reports and try to match them to reported thefts in the metro area?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-17483985618043298582009-07-11T22:52:03.921-05:002009-07-11T22:52:03.921-05:00CT, police arrest people all the time because they &quot;think&quot; a crime has been committed. That&#39;s their job.Paul K. Ogdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16137003328850866711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-48293511150394876842009-07-11T20:13:25.652-05:002009-07-11T20:13:25.652-05:00I suppose it&#39;s all how you look at it. There&#39;s this quote from the story:<br /><br />Boomershine said the officers who filed reports clearly had concerns about the sales they witnessed. He said some of the reports resulted in arrests, and some of the items were seized and held as evidence. But he said that in many other cases, suspicious items were later melted down, recycled and resold by OmniSource.<br /> <br />So they had concerns. They had concerns about other scrap metal yards and sent undercover officers in to arrest those dealers. OmniSource wasn&#39;t similarly targeted and it profited from the activities.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-18387361918982931882009-07-11T19:29:14.576-05:002009-07-11T19:29:14.576-05:00I think you are being a little harsh on the police according to the facts stated in this article.<br /><br />The article said the officers made a police report on the suspicious articles. That&#39;s all they can do.<br /><br />They can&#39;t arrest someone because they &quot;think&quot; the articles may be stolen. Get real.<br /><br />If the cases were NOT followed up on by detectives, maybe you should blame the chief of police.Concerned Taxpayerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952241910289966736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-45739460109099748752009-07-11T13:14:52.959-05:002009-07-11T13:14:52.959-05:00why would you ever think that Brizzi had ethics????artfugginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05364503656694166926noreply@blogger.com