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Quotemander Prime said:

Can't prove this, as I overheard it at work rather than reading it, but apparently people in the area had been calling the police about something suspicious going on (screaming and the like) and the local PD never sent anyone to investigate, all this time.

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2. Neighbors reported naked, leashed girls in Castro's backyard
Police were called to Ariel Castro's house at least twice since he bought the property in 1992 — once for a domestic violence arrest in 1993, and in January 2004, when Castro, a school bus driver until recently, left a child on a bus while he went to have dinner at Wendy's, telling the kid to "lay down." But neighbors say they called the the cops more times than that.
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Israel Lugo, who lives two houses down from Castro, says he, his family, and neighbors called the police on Castro three times in 2011 and 2012 — after his sister saw a woman and infant banging on a half-boarded-over window, again after his mom saw Castro unload an unusually large amount of McDonald's food from his school bus to the house, and once more after neighbors across the street saw three men controlling three naked young women on leashes, crawling on all fours in Castro's backyard. Another neighbor, Elsie Cintron, says her daughter witnessed a similar incident, one woman crawling naked in Castro's backyard several years ago, but when she called the police "they didn't take it seriously." Lugo says the police responded to his family's calls, but left when nobody answered the door.
"Everyone in the neighborhood did what they had to do," Lupe Collins tells The Associated Press. "The police didn't do their job."

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Quotemander Prime said:

The guy who uncovered this and told the FBI to give the reward money to the victims is having his criminal record waved like a flag by the media.

They have a pile of lazy cops to bash and three rapist monsters to provide media fodder, but it's better to dig into the past of the only guy in this situation who did the right thing?

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Officer_Charon said:

Let me paint this in an alternate light, re: the lazy cops. (I'm not saying that this is how this happened - it's entirely possible that the dispatchers never sent the call, but most will send out ANY call, leaving any wave-off up to the on-duty supervisor. And most supervisors are so ass-covering, they won't wave off calls. So I don't know where the break in the chain here is.)

I get dispatched to a call about women on leashes. A little unnerved (but only a little - I'm fairly familiar with the kink), I respond to the address and take a look around the property before making contact with the homeowner. Not seeing anything, I knock on the door. The homeowner answers, I get his information. I ask if maybe there might have been something that could have been seen by folks in the neighborhood and misinterpreted, and listen to his story. He tells me, somewhat ashamedly, that he's part of a group of swingers, and they party pretty hard sometimes. I nod my head, log his information, and continue patrolling.

In writing that, I've tried to be as honest as I can as to the level of an interested street officer's involvement in such a call.

The only additional thing I could think of that could be done there would be to ask to make contact with the women. If they say "They've already left," then there is precisely dick I can do in this situation. The Fourth Amendment is a something like a big deal, you know.

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Dave said:

This crime is horrific enough that I would be behind a no bail ruling.

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sixpackshaker said:

I wish he could have lived out his sentence in that hole...

What was it 1,000 years?

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Dave said:

And he's dead. Killed himself. Hanged himself with a sheet.

Guess being locked up against your will kinda sucks. Who knew?

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jwhouk said:

I would pray the answer is "less than one"?

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