Cleveland Police Deptartment

Murder an unarmed kid waving a toy gun. Get off because you are a cop. You are a despicable embarrassment to the United States. Good job giving ISIS more propaganda fodder. You and the city of Cleveland are a worthless, disposable pile of pestilence with no morals ethics, or shame. I will never visit your pit of a city and I will do everything I can to bad mouth the police, the government, and the entire sick city for the remainder of my life.
Congratulations!

A department in chaos.
A department that fails to treat citizens with dignity and respect.
A department that lacks training, equipment and an environment in which officers would want to excel at their jobs.
A department that exemplifies everything Cleveland – broken, disheveled, bereft of hope.
This district is one of the worst. Don’t expect the dignity of a response to a call. Don’t expect officers to care. Don’t expect help.

I’m under-impressed…TO SAY THE LEAST!
My boyfriend lives in the hood. I’m not a fan of the neighborhood, but it’s not my house. When we first started dating the fact that there was a strong police presence in the neighborhood was comforting. In the past few years, I’ve noticed a significant decline of cops… unless there is drama happening.
He lives across the street from a rental where there are teen-​age kids who scream inappropriate things out the windows, hang on electrical wires obstructing traffic, and all manner sorts of domestic violence and drugs. The cop are over there frequently, but only after someone has made a phone call. Where the absent parents are 95% of the day, I don’t know.
A week or so ago my beau’s car was broken into. He happened upon the «would-​be thieves» as they were running away from his car at 5 am. He was on his way to work, and they messed that up royally. They (we think) didn’t finished the job because it is a standard shift car. We figured they didn’t know how to operate such «fancy» equipment. Granted my man drives a POS car, but they did over $ 1000 worth of damage and quite frankly, we wished they would have just taken the dumb thing.
So my beau calls the «ever-​ready» CLE PD. 3 hours later… still no cops. Call again, and the new dispatcher says, «We don’t have any record of your initial call.» Really??? What the heck are you people doing? Shift change at 5 am perhaps? Donuts? Coffee? Come on. So, he calls & says there are 2 people running down his street away from his recently broken-​into car and NO ONE COMES TO CHECK IT OUT?! Brilliant. Completely, and totally brilliant.
After the 2^nd phone call the CLE PD deign to show up and have an attitude… immediately. Sorry, dude, I know you were probably doing something REALLY important. So my beau explains, nicely, gently, even, that he’s been waiting around and that the initial call didn’t get made, and the cop is being rude and argumentative saying it isn’t his «fault» but the dispatcher yada yada. And I see the cop and say, I’m sorry but 3 hours is ridiculous, and the cop starts to pick a verbal fight with me. Really? You’re going to show up am IMMEDIATELY pick a fight with a woman? Classy CLE PD, VERY classy!
The cop is jotting a few things down, asking minimal questions and says to my beau, «Your police report will be posted and ready in 7 – 10 days. The man says, «Thank you so much, may I have my car towed now?» The eloquent Cop replies, «It’s your car, you can do whatever you want with it.» Nice. Thank you again Mr. Po-​Po, I’m impressed by your great social skills, respect, and social niceties you HAVE NOT provided.
So the nice neighbor lady is out and of course she wants to know what is happening, so she asks and I tell her. She sticks around to be nosy and then heads inside. She comes out later when we’re having the car towed and says, «Man, that cop was a total dick.» My thoughts exactly.
To cap this all off with a nice bow, the man calls regarding the police report & the dispatcher says, «Oh, those are always posted within 24 hours.» My beau replies, «So the police officer I spoke with, who filed the report, lied to me? He told me 7 – 10 days.» To which the dispatcher gets very silent and quiet and says, «Yes, I’m terribly sorry, but they NEVER take that long.»
What this long story goes to show is the ineptness of the CLE PD, the lack of communication skills, the lack of concern, and empathy towards people. I’m not happy CLE PD, and quite frankly, I think you owe my beau an apology.

*10 hours later update*
They put another ticket on my car this morning. $ 100.00 in parking tickets in less than 24 hours. Good work CPD. You are doing a stellar job.
Last month they gave me a $ 50 ticket for allegedly blocking the crosswalk by my apartment. That was questionable. I paid their little ticket. Then Parma PD said I was speeding in their school zone without the lights actually blinking. I paid those little fiends their $ 100. Today the snow was falling heavy. I worked from home because going to the office would have been a bad move. If I would have known what events would follow, I would have gladly drove to Independence. I live on Lake Ave in one of the brick apartments. There are a lot of people who park on the street and have no other option. I parked on the street today. I do everyday. When I try to enter my car at around 5 pm I notice a neon green ticket protruding from my sideview mirror. Another $ 50. And for what I ask? Because there was snow on the ground? I have nowhere else to park. You are trying to rebuild this backwater city and convince people it is not a corrupt, dangerous and crazy place to live? I am starting to think that it is not the illuminati, NWO, the 1% or Skull and Bones who are destroying the middle class, it is these bogus police departments. I got a couple of rolling stop tickets in Cleveland between 2012 and 2013. It is better for your car to not come to a complete stop. Better for the brakes, fuel economy and transmission. My brother has been robbed twice within a year and pistol whipped. People are getting shot. People are getting kidnapped. And you are repeatedly ticketing one of the few people who are actually working and paying taxes to this city. What crimes do the police actually prevent? I don’t depend on the police. If something is stolen, somebody is robbed, why even call the police in Cleveland? If somebody breaks into my apartment, don’t think for a minute that calling the police is going to be my solution. I got something for that. I may end up listening to some of the right wing dudes that I work with and end up moving to the country and escaping this cash extraction scam. I had a good time listening to David Allan Coe in Medina the other week. Maybe city living is not for me. I am sick of paying money to this city. I rather have my tax dollars going to a scoreboard that looks like Tennessee instead of having more cops patrolling the streets and handing out petty tickets and doing their little bummy, Iraq level of freedom, DUI checkpoints. We are living in a police state. Wake up. Watch the movie They Live starring Roddy Piper.

Whoever answered the phone when I tried to report a loose animal was not very friendly or professional, and could really use a refresher on customer service skills. Seemed like she really wanted to get me off the phone and could not care less about what I was calling to report. Of course, she did not answer the phone with any greeting or identification, besides Cleveland Police Department. I would think that they would be more appreciative of citizens calling to report something, when they really do not have to. Just very taken aback at the level of rudeness and unprofessionalism. If I answered the phone at my job, or spoke to my clients the way I was spoken to, I would not be employed. Also, makes me think twice before calling about a concern in the future.
Just FYI, I first called Cleveland Animal Control (who was completely useless and just as rude), who told me they cant do anything and to call Ohio Wildlife, who then told they cant do anything either and to just report it CPD.