Blame The Computer

@gewcew23 (8007)
United States
March 19, 2010 12:27pm CST
Walter and Rose Martin have lived in their current house since 1997. Since 2002 New York police have been to the elderly couples house 50 times. Is this elderly couple drug dealers or something, no but the computer keeps telling the cop that their address is where criminals live. The most recent raid was the one that broke the camels back when two cops broke a window in the back of their Marine Park home. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/computer_glitch_blamed_home_years_mHUCrXCM8vhEyVGJolFIPK
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laglen
@laglen (19759)
• United States
19 Mar 10
i would charge the police department for harassment. Why didnt they flag the address years ago. You would think after 13 years you would think the police would atleast pause before busting the door down.
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gewcew23
@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
19 Mar 10
50 times, how do you keep on going to the same house 50 times by mistake?
spalladino
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
21 Mar 10
Hey gewcew, I'm not going to side with the government this time so you might want to print this one out. There's no reasonable explanation for what these people have had to endure and, I agree with laglen, they should hire an attorney and sue. The claim made in the article, that the address was flagged in the datebase but "somehow" it popped up again is not satisfactory. Once something is entered into a database it stays there until and unless someone changes something. Glossing over this kind of incompetence is unacceptable.
bobmnu
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
20 Mar 10
The police (including the management and commander) in that precinct should be reassigned all over the city and new ones brought in. IF it is a computer problem that is easy to fix and should have been done years ago.
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gewcew23
@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
20 Mar 10
IF it is a computer problem that is easy to fix and should have been done years ago. Your forgetting that is a government computer.
sudiptacallingu
@sudiptacallingu (10879)
• India
20 Mar 10
how is this possible! 50 times and how are the police getting away with this? I cant really imagine what they have to say each time they go and harass the same people!! Maybe the police think that since its an old couple they can walk over them and try and prove something in order to hide their own incompetence over something else.
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dragon54u
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
19 Mar 10
That's insane! Why hasn't someone done a couple of minutes work and kicked that address out of the alert status? I hope they sue and win, that is ridiculous!
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gewcew23
@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
19 Mar 10
That would have been to much work, it is better to keep going to the same house over and over again then actually get it right.
matersfish
@matersfish (6306)
• United States
19 Mar 10
I wouldn't even understand this level of ineptitude in this day and age from some Podunk Mayberry police. It really does my head in thinking it's the police in NEW FRIGGIN' YORK! lol And while I can't get the link to load, I can still read where it says "Brooklyn." LMAO! This is the kind of police force we have in Brooklyn!? FAIL
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gewcew23
@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
20 Mar 10
Oh yeah this New York's finest.
10joyrahut
@10joyrahut (3)
• India
20 Mar 10
I think either the criminals are smart enough to put or deviate the cop trackers...or the Martins are hiding some secrets or they dont know anything abot it... in past these years cops should have been able to to get this down that they are being fooled by either of them...