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UAdevil wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 6:58 pm About 10 minutes after my post I saw a car drive up 1st Ave by my house going north toward Grant Rd that matched the description exactly. I tried to get a better look but the car hauled ass away when they saw me checking them out. I called 88-crime. They found the car after a short chase at Grant/Park. I hope they got the culprit. Don't know if my tip helped, but it looked suspicious

UAdevil wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 7:24 pm Pretty sure it was the car. They got them 10 minutes later up the street in front on the Grant/Park CVS.

UAdevil wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 10:59 am TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) -

A resident tipped officers off about the location of the vehicle, the TPD said in a news release.

UAdevil wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 1:24 pm I'm just glad he's off the fucking street in an area we walk daily. Scary stuff.

Longhorned wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 5:23 pm I have question about the Tucson PD, or maybe police practices generally. Let me know if this story sounds normal or weird.

I'm driving behind a motorcycle, and a car pulls into the intersection and collides with the motorcycle. Before my wife can dial 911 - miracle of miracles! - a police car turns into the intersection because it just happened to be immediately behind the car that collided with the motorcycle. Suddenly, there's a uniformed officer standing in the intersection over the body of the motorcyclist. And there's a plainclothes man directing traffic, in familiar communication with the uniformed officer while he does so.

I don't know whether both of these dudes came out of the squad car, or whether the plainclothes guy came out of the car that collided with the motorcycle. There was definitely someone still in the driver's seat in the car that crashed.

I go to turn into the parking lot at the intersection to offer a witness account, and the plainclothes guy signals me not to and aggressively directs me to turn right past the body in the road and drive away.

So I call the police on the phone to offer me and my wife's eyewitness account, and they direct me to a voicemail. An officer from TUPD calls me back today and asks me if I have a report number. I said no, we were directed away from the scene of the accident when it was clear that we were witnesses. So the officer on the phone says that, without a report number, there's no way to connect my verbal account with any particular accident. I said it was the only motorcycle crash at 22nd and Swan at 6 pm on June 5. She said there's no record of any such accident if I don't have a record number, and thank you for calling, but this inquiry is now resolved and closed. Goodbye.

The fuck? When did TUPD become so powerless, incurious, and information-poor?

Is it paranoid of me to suddenly wonder if the car that hit the motorcyclist was with the police car immediately behind him? And that maybe there could be a police connection with the vehicle that's at risk of fault?

pc in NM wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:03 am

Longhorned wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 5:23 pm I have question about the Tucson PD, or maybe police practices generally. Let me know if this story sounds normal or weird.

I'm driving behind a motorcycle, and a car pulls into the intersection and collides with the motorcycle. Before my wife can dial 911 - miracle of miracles! - a police car turns into the intersection because it just happened to be immediately behind the car that collided with the motorcycle. Suddenly, there's a uniformed officer standing in the intersection over the body of the motorcyclist. And there's a plainclothes man directing traffic, in familiar communication with the uniformed officer while he does so.

I don't know whether both of these dudes came out of the squad car, or whether the plainclothes guy came out of the car that collided with the motorcycle. There was definitely someone still in the driver's seat in the car that crashed.

I go to turn into the parking lot at the intersection to offer a witness account, and the plainclothes guy signals me not to and aggressively directs me to turn right past the body in the road and drive away.

So I call the police on the phone to offer me and my wife's eyewitness account, and they direct me to a voicemail. An officer from TUPD calls me back today and asks me if I have a report number. I said no, we were directed away from the scene of the accident when it was clear that we were witnesses. So the officer on the phone says that, without a report number, there's no way to connect my verbal account with any particular accident. I said it was the only motorcycle crash at 22nd and Swan at 6 pm on June 5. She said there's no record of any such accident if I don't have a record number, and thank you for calling, but this inquiry is now resolved and closed. Goodbye.

The fuck? When did TUPD become so powerless, incurious, and information-poor?

Is it paranoid of me to suddenly wonder if the car that hit the motorcyclist was with the police car immediately behind him? And that maybe there could be a police connection with the vehicle that's at risk of fault?

IMNSHO, I think this account warrants a letter to the editor of local media!