OK, some of you know this already, but one of my assistants is married to a detective in Chicago working out of the station at Addison and Halsted (yes, I have a get-out-jail-free card for being a drunken idiot after a Cubs game). He's off duty during the days, so I asked his wife/my assistant to patch him through when she talked to him next.
I ran your scenario by him, Will.
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Originally Posted by Chicago Police Detective
Are you fucking kidding me? We get those calls all the fucking time, and they're almost always from exes looking to put one over on each other. People with jobs don't do that shit to each other.
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When I told him that someone was serious about it
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Originally Posted by Chicago Police Detective
Really? Why would someone want to try to fuck someone over like that? Do they have a score to settle? .... If we got that kind of call, we'd still figure it was a crank unless the caller said something about selling it or something. I've got better things to do with my time than busting random yuppie cokeheads. You know, like figuring out who's selling the shit or why they killed someone. You know, real fucking crime....
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Some of that is paraphrased, but it's as close as I can get without a recording.
So that's what an actual cop says. Perhaps the San Jose cops have time to deal with this, it being a giant suburb and all, but Chicago cops don't (or at least that particular Chicago cop who would be one of the ones who got the actual "anonymous" call).
I still maintain that it's a bad idea with no good outcome for anyone, including the caller. IF the cops listen, AND the guy doesn't get fired AND he cleans up his act, then the caller basically keeps doing his job like he's always done. That's the best possible outcome I can think of. Too many ifs and too many "uhohs" for me.