[banana dick]

yet again, women suffer due to the incompetence and laziness of the authorities. they could have saved them. how many more women are going to have to be raped, tortured and murdered before people fucking realize just what this world is like to a woman?

after their horrific handling of the cleveland serial killer case (it was just a bunch of prostitutes, who cares?), the fact that they're trying to claim they got no calls is laughable. who the FUCK do these people think they are?

The case of the three women held captive for a decade in Cleveland reaches a new level of absurdity with a Tuesday night report detailing the many warning signs that police appear to have ignored. USA Today says that not one not two but at least three neighbors called the police between 2011 and 2012 to report suspicious activity at the house where Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight escaped their years-long imprisonment on Monday. We're not talking about the watering-the-flowers-at-midnight brand of suspicious activity. We're talking women-being-led-around-the-yard-on-dog-leashes suspicious. Some might just call that sick. (Add it to the list.)

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Cleveland Police missed something. That much is clear. Despite the department's obviously extended effort to find the victims, the sheer volume of tips that would have led them to the Castro home is starting to looking pretty condemning. While some are calling the USA Today report "mostly hearsay," it's hard to believe that so many different neighbors would've made such similar calls. Some reported inexplicably large amounts of McDonalds being carried into the house by Ariel Castro, one of the three brothers and a school bus driver. Others reported seeing women in the windows of the Castro house and at least once incident of a woman pounding on a women, after which they called the police.

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The leash stuff really is twisted, though. "[Neighborhood] women told Lugo they called police because they saw three young girls crawling on all fours naked with dog leashes around their necks," the report reads. "Three men were controlling them in the backyard. The women told Lugo they waited two hours but police never responded to the calls." Again, this is just one of several incidents that neighbors say they reported to police, incidents that the Cleveland Police didn't follow up on. It's not just the USA Today piece that's making these claims either. Local news outlets are issuing similar reports.

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Despite the volume of reports — The New York Times published a similarly condemning story after USA Today's — Cleveland Police not only say they did nothing wrong. A police spokesperson told CNN on Tuesday that they never even received any calls. Hard to believe? You bet. Understandably evasive? Sure. But it's certainly no get-out-of-jail free card. (Pardon the bad pun.) As Reuters' Jim Roberts put it, "Hard to see how this Cleveland story ends well for the Police Department there."

[PlinyTheYounger]

Fucking scary shit...makes me wonder about my neighbors.

[Hvergelmir]

When taken in the context of what happened there, yeah it's chilling, but if there's no creepy rapey stuff happening, it sounds like S&M.

[Darkest Angel]

Still, they should have checked.

[Hvergelmir]

If all the neighbors saw was him walking women in the yard on leashes, there's nothing the cops can do.

If said women were yelling/screaming for help, that's different.

[AmericanIllusions]

Are we surprised? Cops only get up for 2 things and that's fresh donuts and when one of theirs gets hurt. Otherwise take a number and sit your ass down.

[Pyramid_Head]

Fucking sorry ass police force.

[GregK]

Originally Posted by PlinyTheYounger ↗

Fucking scary shit...makes me wonder about my neighbors.

Makes mes wonder about myself

[peema]

Talk to you after cops bust your door open after some "neighbor" reports too much pizza delivered to your house or some other suspicious activity at the premises.

[Megamel29]

Originally Posted by peema ↗

Talk to you after cops bust your door open after some "neighbor" reports too much pizza delivered to your house or some other suspicious activity at the premises.

I'm an American! I can order as much pizza as I want! I'd go pick it up myself, but my Hoveround is in the shop.