- Joined
- Oct 15, 2018
To Canadian posters (or anyone familiar):
If I were to walk into a PD in say Seattle with a hard copy of the info archived here to report, I would get an incident number or report number that I could report on myself or give to a journo for verification. Are there receipts that the RCMP gives you for reporting, either online or in person?
I think it depends. In my experience, usually when you report something (either to the RCMP or a Peace Officer), an officer comes, writes down what you say, chats with you a bit, then goes on their way. If you have evidence, they usually bag it, but depending on what it is, you may not get a follow-up. Like needles, unless they know who used it, are cleaned up by another department. Even if you saw who used the needle, they might bag it, but generally that would go nowhere - Unless who used it is already under investigation for something criminal, then they're like hounds.
If it's evidence of something happening to you - like someone's stalking you - I think then you get more involved in the process. That's when emails, phone calls, recorded conversations, etc. become important. But if you walk into a Police Station with printed off evidence of this guy to warn police from the Farms, they may give you a look because it's not impacting you directly.
This could be different in other provinces, though. Your only other option would be make friends with a cop (or better yet, have one in the family), and just casually mention this to them. They'll mentally take a note, but otherwise nothing will be done unless this fuck came to you specifically and did this shit.