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Originally Posted by Crock
It's in the parking lot of the BBQ place behind the 7/Eleven with two cops just hanging out. Might be nothing, but I thought I'd share. I'd be particularly careful this evening.
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I use to work down the road between mockingbird and regal row. One day I go out to smoke, and I see a suspicious van in our parking lot. It was a van, solid white, strong tint on the windows, just parked across multiple spaces, only marker lights on, engine running. I ignore it go back in, come back out a few hours later and it's still there. I walk toward the van to make sure no one was dead or passed out drunk in it, and the driver rolls the window down. After a little back and forth he explained that that area of town is a very common place for the girls on Harry Hines to take their clientele. Weird cuz he wasn't in a good spot to see much other than our parked cars and people whizzing by on 114. Tall fences blocked visibility everywhere else. I figure the people that own all those businesses are complaining about the pornographic scenes of their CCTV overnight recordings and the presence of used rubbers on the ground. The police get enough complaints they have to show they are addressing it so they dispatch a guy in one of their vans to make appearances in certain areas to discourage some activity there so it'll seem like something got done. Ya gotta love that DPD approach: was some killed, injured or kidnapped? No, ok will send a guy around to makes notes. They are busy solving real crimes, not fund raising with traffic tickets and harsh enforcement of pettyy misdemeanors.
detention van (paddy wagon) waiting @ 183/Empire Central
