Can the Police be Trusted to Do the Job That Taxpayers Pay Them to Do?

When the Township Police learned that the State Police had caught the burglars, they obtained pictures of the confiscated loot, which they showed me to see if I could identify any of the stuff. I was able to identify much of the money as possibly mine. There was a picture of a small plastic bank that had my name on it, which I pointed out to the police. I also identified a digital camera and a silver watch as mine. The police were elated because this would help in the prosecution of the burglars.

When the burglars were tried in court, I gave a victim’s rights speech. I explained to the judge and the court how valuable (monetarily and sentimentally) the money and coin collections were, and how important the records in the computer and the pictures in the camera were, which could not be duplicated.

Both burglars received prison sentences. The girl was pregnant and served only one year of a long sentence. The guy is still in prison and will be there for many years.

I waited and waited for the police to contact me and return the items that I had identified, but it never happened. I finally decided to follow up on it and found that the State Police did not even know I existed or that any of the confiscated property was mine. Consequently, they sent all of it out to auction. They said the Township Police had not notified them that I was a victim. This is so wrong! If the Township Police had done their job, I could have gotten back some of my money and other items that I identified. The State Police detectives affirmed the same.

The Township Police Chief was having sexual relations (and filming the acts) in his office with a fellow Township official during this time. There was a lot of corruption going on in that department. Things were not getting done. He was eventually busted and has since been replaced.

I want to sue them for derelict of duty and denying me my right to recover the items that I had identified. I am a tax payer; they were supposed to serve me, instead, they let me down. I am very emotionally hurt and upset at losing so much old and rare money, and losing my father’s and sister’s old and rare coin collections. It hurts me deeply losing the pictures of my sister in her final days. These items can never be replaced and I am very hurt that the police did not do the job that we, the taxpayers, pay them to do.

There is no appropriate or valid reason why the Township Police failed to notify the State Police that I was a victim, and that I had identified many confiscated items. If they had been doing their job instead of having sexual fun on the job, I would have recovered much of my belongings. I will never get over losing such valuable belongings and the police failing me. I want to , and plan to punish them, by suing them for punitive damages.