One of our customers who is patiently awaiting his arrival of “CopTalk” by mail, recently emailed us with specific questions in regards to vehicle alarm systems verses other anti-theft devices. I got so carried away in answering his question that I thought, “Boy, there’s enough information here to be the tip of the every other week topic!”

And so, here it is.

If any of you that read our page have any questions pertaining to any information discussed in the site, please email us and we will be happy to either answer or research the answer for you to the best of our ability.

The Netcops Staff sincerely wishes you a SAFE and HAPPY Thanksgiving Day Holiday. Use good old common sense, DON’T drink and drive, and you’ll be headed in the right direction.

Stay Safe everybody!

Here’s this week’s Tip of the week in response to our customer’s question:

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I see it every year. The calls start to increase in November, and continue through the winter. The calls come out as structure fires, or chimney fires.

Police and Fire departments respond and see the aftermath of a preventable tragedy.

The homeowners huddled outside wrapped in blankets provided by neighbors, children staring blankly at the burning house they used to call home, families watching their treasures and belongings from past years being destroyed in only a few minutes. Most people flee a fire with only the family pets and the clothes on their back. Then the aftermath, finding shelter, food, clothes, etc. to get by on until the house is rebuilt. Even in a small fire that doesn’t destroy the entire home, there is usually additional damage from smoke and water.

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This week’s story of the every other week comes straight from watching the news.

Nearby where I work, a 15-year old girl is missing for several days and then is found dead along a roadside.

An unfamiliar adult in broad daylight grabs another young girl in broad daylight at a mini mall, but she manages to free herself and escape abduction.

A young girl in the same neighborhood reports being followed by a subject in a car who followed her and pulled alongside her several times until she began to run and summoned help from a gardener who was working nearby.

A suspect is arrested down in southern California after stabbing a woman, and then confesses to killing a young boy who had been reported missing in Northern California.

A man enters a woman’s car, hides in the rear seat, and upon her return he forces her to drive to a rural area where he brutally rapes her.

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Holiday Depression & Domestic Violence

Every year it seems to get worse. When I first became a cop, I was a bit surprised to see what the holidays do to some people. While most people are in a happy holiday mood, cooking, shopping, wrapping presents, others are in a deep depression.

The holidays bring depression to a lot of people for different reasons. Some are depressed because they are alone, some because they lost their loved ones, some because they are having marital or family problems, and some due to financial or job related problems. But the common thread here is that holiday depression usually ends up in violence, family or domestic disputes, or suicide.

Not a happy topic to talk about, but a reality. The holidays seem to push some people over the edge. Calls of domestic violence and suicide rates always increase over the holiday period. I remember my first year as a police officer.
On a Thanksgiving morning at 6 a.m., I was dispatched to a call of a female chasing a male around the street with a butcher knife. They had gotten into a physical altercation over an argument about how to carve a turkey. Luckily, only the turkey got carved.

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