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Mainsail wrote:
Johnny Law wrote:
The Officer would likely have ran the name, found that Mainsail was an upstanding person, and then if someone in the park (or elsewhere) had called in amwag call, the Officer could ward off/cancel a unit being dispatched to check on him.
I guessing that you didn’t read my entire post and I apologize for its verbosity. I have had the police called before in that very park only a few weeks before and they didn’t come. If a call came in after I had (or hadn’t) given the officer my name it’s unlikely they would come – unless – the caller reported something that would have made the MWAG call criminal, in which case they would come whether they had my name or not. So in the end it doesn’t make much of a difference.
Additionally, if the call was just an innocuous MWAG call, the caller wouldn’t know my name so the officer wouldn’t have anything to compare the name in his notebook to. I asked if I was being detained, he said no. Except for his cryptic warning, that was the end of the encounter. I was pleased with the officer’s attitude and demeanor, but very disappointed at the lack of concern for my son when I told him about that incident. He acted as though I was taking him off track.
Now, the way he worded the warning made me wonder. He said that if I had contact with someone in the park it could generate a priority response. What the hell does that mean? I was riding my bike, not handing out pamphlets, what kind of ‘contact’ was he referring to?
I don’t feel any obligation whatsoever to provide my name to the police when they don’t really need it. I know that some here would happily give them a name or show CPL or DL, but it’s not required or useful in my opinion.
The connection that your name makes is this; The next person calling in the mwag complaint will describe your clothing, and the Original Officer may well recognize your description. Having already checked your name, he knows you are not a "problem child" (have no warrants, blah blah) and knows that this call does not need to be dispatched on.
I would think that his cryptic warning was referring to the next potential mwag caller, who (as we know some do) may well embellish their story, making it seem worse than it really is.
You must also remember that this was probably not the Officer who took the report on your son, and if not, he would likely know nothing of the event. Police deal with one incident at a time, and a prior unrelated incident has no real connection to the fact that they were talking to you now about oc. If he was insensitive, then that is unfortunate.
Once an Officer generates a report, it then goes to Detectives who conduct the remainder of the investigation, so asking a street cop why nothing has been done on a caseis pointless, as he will have no further info.
