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The hit-and-run motorcycle shouldn't be hard to spot: It has heavy damage
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why is everything so Top Secret for Boston-area police?
Twitter: "Police still looking for the motorcyclist that struck a pedestrian at 755 Comm Ave"
"No further information could be released at this time, as the incident is under investigation."
Well that's just great. You tell us you're still looking for it, but heaven forbid you actually give us enough information to help you. How about telling us what the damage was, or what it looks like?
Was it a sport bike? A Harley-like bike?
What color was it?
Where was the damage?
Since BU and BPD were so tight-lipped about the whole thing, now we have no hope of ever finding it. Unlike a car, a motorcycle is easy to get off the street, and nearly 100% repairable in someone's garage. A motorcycle can be brought into an apartment, even - and "heavy damage" is usually just the fairings, which can be removed in a matter of an hour or two with some common handtools.
That motorcycle is good as gone now.
By then it's usually too late.
The motorcycle/car is 10 minutes by the time police get there, and 30 minutes gone by the time they can figure out what kind of bike/car it is.
Know what would happen if you put out a tweet? The state police would get 100 calls for 100 false leads.
To to massmostwanted.com if you really want to help law enforcement.
defeatist attitude
There's a difference between not distributing information, and refusing to.
If they'd put out info saying it was a lime-green sportbike with a broken windshield, then maybe someone remembers seeing it elsewhere that evening. Or a landlord notices his tenant is suddenly very keen on getting some indoor storage space. Or a local shop/dealer remembers it when someone orders a new windshield from them. Or maybe someone notices that the lime-green sportbike that's always parked in front of their building...isn't anymore.
It's a long shot, but it's a shot. Instead, since we have absolutely no information, there's ZERO shot.
False tips? HEAVEN FORBID you detectives have to actually do some goddamn DETECTING and chase down leads instead of sitting around scratching your asses until your pension kicks in.
You simply don't know how it works.
There were probalby about 1000 calls today in the greater Boston area for small crimes like this one that could have been tweeted out. Why search false tips when you know you have a better chance being more productive doing other things like the dozens of other arrests that were made today?
Ever see the protocol for an amber alert? Do you know why you you have to jump through 1000 hoops to even put one out? It's because of the false leads that lead to slim succes rates. If they don't work for the most serious crimes, what makes you think they would work for things like this?
Much easier to check surveillance cameras, interview those who might have good leads, or simply Process the evidence you have then follow false leads that waste everyone's time.
Besides, the description was given out right away.
To police on bapern.
There are are scanners and scanner apps you can get if you want to help out.
It's also sometimes better not to let on what or how much info you have to the public, if it's really important, the description will be released at some point, and info will come forward.
"small crimes"?
There were probalby about 1000 calls today in the greater Boston area for small crimes like this one that could have been tweeted out
No small wonder people get away with motor vehicle crashes on cyclists and pedestrians. The police think it's small potatoes.
So hitting a pedestrian and leaving them to die in the road is a "small crime", huh? Newsflash, dipshit: just because you used a car or a motorcycle doesn't make the injuries less severe. That woman could end up suffering from weeks of rehabilitation, or be permanently disabled. That's SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT from a shoplifter (weird how shoplifters are so important on massmostwanted, huh? Maybe because it's sponsored by a business association? How about some domestic abusers? Or murderers? Or assault w/deadlys? We got a couple thousand people running around Boston with years-old warrants and massmostwanted is so very concerned about shoplifters.)
You are right.
I didn't mean it that way.
I meant there are 1000 crimes like this where there is a 0% chance of catching the perp if you tweeted it 10-30 minutes later.