Unless you're a home owner, don't get involved with these amateurs. You will not be dealing with a professional urban police department. If you are a victim of a crime you will get a lecture instead of assistance. Once when I lived in an apartment in Rutherford my mentally unbalanced neighbor broke in while I was at work. Although nothing was stolen (he claimed my cat was speaking to him through the door), I felt the incident warranted a police report. When the officer arrived he seemed angry and annoyed with me after I explained the incident. He seemed to be convinced that this must have been some kind of a domestic squabble between me and the neighbor and that I shouldn't bother the RPD with these problems. He seemed to have no concept of the fact that apartment dwellers live in separate housing units. This wasn't, however, an isolated case. Another time my car was rear-ended getting onto Route 3. I exchanged insurance information with the other driver and it all ended amicably. My insurance company, however, insisted that I get a police report so off I go to the RPD also know as the Lecture Hall. Instead of helping me the desk sergeant lectured on about how I should NEVER have used that entrance to Route 3 (how else am I supposed to get on the highway?) since that that is a high accident zone. I supposed if I worked at RPD I would have this information. He also went on about how one should always call the police at the scene of the accident no matter how minor it is. After being spoken to as if I was the most naïve person in the world, it turns out that the RPD could do nothing and that I had to request an accident report from Trenton. That was really all I needed to hear.
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