An 18 year old kid was shot on my street last friday. I live in a pretty violent part of this hell hole country and despise the cops. I have a camera in front of my house over-looking the street, and the cops have came over twice asking to see the footage and both time I’ve refused (even though there is nothing on our camera).
I am feeling kind of guilty because if my camera had something on it that could catch the murderer i’d feel bad for withholding it for the families sake, but on the other hand cops here barely ever catch murderers and have basically gone on ‘protest leave’ after the BLM protests and my city voting in a ‘progressive’ DA so they pretty much let crimes happen in front of them and don’t do shit. All in all I am pretty conflicted on this and can use some advice. btw my camera didn’t catch anything, so now I’m just worried of the cops retaliating against me since I said no to them.
Also as I was typing this i just saw a news story on it that says the murderer was spotted ducking out into someones front yard on their camera two blocks away from me (he wouldn’t have passed my house) and then getting into a car and heading away from where I live (again wouldn’t have passed my house). The first officers who came by an hour after the murder wouldn’t have known that when asking for the footage, but the one who came by today definitely would have so wtf.
I had two people knock at my door one time, one knocked while the other took a position on the stairs that was unusual. The second person also kept their hands close to their body but didn’t let their arms hang naturally at their sides.
Very suspicious. Looked through my camera and decided, no I’m not going to answer.
They dropped a card in my mailbox.
Turns out they were plain clothes cops, and the second officer was definitely taking a position to cover his partner.
I assume they were going to ask for my camera footage since I went back and looked at the footage before they knocked and they were casing the block and noticed my camera, looked at it and walked back and forth a couple of times.
Never called them, because frankly if you’re standing at my doorstep, do not identify who you are, and are telegraphing with your body that you have a gun and are thinking about it, I’m just not going to be interested in answering the door or helping you.