Plano detective investigating package thief unravels murder-for-hire plot instead

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awesomemom1217@reddit

Absolutely. Anyone who wants to unalive an ex and their new significant other won’t be able to move on indefinitely. Life in prison is what he needs.

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Neither-Luck-9295@reddit

you can say the word 'kill' on the internet. You're not getting demonitized.

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Alternative_Hall_470@reddit

Social media has everyone trained like lab rats to press a button for a treat. Or avoid the button to keep from getting shocked.

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Furrealyo@reddit

Plano PD out there fingerprinting door knobs for clues in a porch pirate situation.

Meanwhile Dallas PD can’t be bothered to pull over any one of the endless stream of Altimas without plates.

Good job Plano PD!!

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Neither-Luck-9295@reddit

bruh Plano PD are hit or miss as well. Maybe the detectives do work. But the uniforms are just as bad/lazy/apathetic as all the other PDs around the country.

I literally sat on Alma and Legacy and counted over 100 cars without front plates in a 20 minute span. In this 20 minute span, there were 7 police vehicles that came through the same intersection at various points. All 7 of those police cars were at the intersection when there were these blank front cars present.

That's 100 tickets of easy revenue they could be after.

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TheBitchTits@reddit

So your gauge for proactive police work is whether or not they stop every vehicle that doesn’t have a front license plate, solely for the purpose of generating revenue?

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Neither-Luck-9295@reddit

Maybe not as reductive as that. But more traffic enforcement is SORELY needed in Plano. It's bad enough with the straight pipe assholes who race up and down our main streets because of how perfectly grid-like the city is.

But criminology studies have repeatedly shown that when you enforce low level violations, the other stuff sorts it self out in the long run, because criminals will not want to take risks in high enforcement areas.

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zimjig@reddit

Front plates ruin the look of a car. I’ve never had one on my car

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Later2theparty@reddit

Dallas PD has plenty of funding to hire officers but no funding to give them the tools they need.

As someone who has worked for both cities, not in the police, the resources available are night and day.

Dallas would have employees stand in line for 30 minutes waiting to check out a screwdriver that costs $6 to protect against the employee stealing it; then stand in line for another 30 minutes to check it back in. This is not an exaggeration.

I knew a few people who worked for Dallas PD and they said it was just as bad for them. That kind of environment discourages people from even wanting to do their job when the employer throws idiotic barriers in their way every day.

Plano has their own issues but it is, or was, a very great city to work for.

New leadership has changed that and I started seeing a lot of the same kind of mistakes that Dallas has made that lead to them being completely dysfunctional. So I left Plano too. Hopefully they can sort it all out because from what I've seen here the general public has started to notice the effects.

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Thesinistral@reddit

Volume…..18,769 cars were stolen in Dallas on 2023. That’s 52 cars per day.

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xmaspackage@reddit

Dallas PD literally ignored a murder because there wasn’t a body. Plano police found the body in the trunk of a car in a Best Buy parking lot and just traced the car back to the crime scene…and then dumped the murder on Dallas PD’s doorstep. DPD is a joke.

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Furrealyo@reddit

Several police officers in my extended family. It’s well known that DPD is where you go for training/certification before transferring to another department.

DPD is chock full of officers who can’t get hired elsewhere.

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CoolDude1980@reddit

I feel like the article could have given way more details on this. I'm interested in hearing the rest of the story! Not "he asked about a silencer, yada-yada-yada, he's in jail awaiting sentencing."

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wittyscreenname@reddit

This sounds like some movie plot where a detective is being punished by the captain with small cases, etc.