Am I overreacting?
Chicago Police officer to a burglary victim: Can you just forget about it?
While I was at the hospital, I believe it was my rich landlord, here in the Gold Coast, who burglarized my apartment to the tune of over $2,500. The cop who arrived was certainly a nice guy. But he said to me, believe it or not, "Can you just forget about it?" Not once, in over a month, did a detective, or anyone else see fit to visit my apartment.
Two weeks ago, I contacted my alderman, Vi Daley, and my Congressman, Danny Davis, via e-mail. They never saw fit to respond.
Do you have any ideas of what I should do next? Or should I just lick my wounds and understand that because I am not rich or famous, I really have no legal rights.
6 hours ago James B. says:
Dude you sound like a complete whack job. Get back on the meds before they take you away.
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you have every right to be upset about your stuff being stolen. you did all that you can do legally, by calling the cops and such. yes cops are *** holes and seem to somehow get you when your down. things like this happen, i know because i have stole from before. being upset about your stuff is okay, the only thing you really can do is move on, try to recoup and save to get some replacement stuff, it sucks i know. don't listen to what people are saying to you, there a bunch of idoits that have nothing else to do but laugh and kick someone that is already down, i'm the kind-of person that picks people up, so just to let you know, it will get better and hopefully you can get some of your stuff back, but i wouldn't count on it, cause life sucks! good luck
in response to the original post - you need to keep pushing this.
as to the mean ppl here - why let a bunch of strangers you will never know on a personal level upset you? they don't know you as a person only what you asked. if they are being mean and stupid then let them - they obvioulsly have nothing better to do with their time than to make ppl feel bad. :)
My home was burglarized once too, a cop came, took a report and that's it. Most thefts go unsolved.
It is possible that your behavior lead the officer to thinking that you imagined it? Maybe now is not a good time to take on city hall, instead just focus on your recovery. Share these frustrations with your psychiatrist.
I think you have every right to wonder what happened to your belongings. But you also need to be cool & calm about it because if you are still living in the same apartment your landlord can boot you out as soon as your lease is up.
Joe, if you are for real, y answers is a bad place to look for sensible responses - tho you probably already know that. Better off staying on your meds, following up with psychiatrist and don't stress about the whole burglary thing for now. You can decide what to do about it when things are a bit clearer.
Good luck.
That's really weird. Maybe they are prejudiced against mentally ill people (i am included, kind of in the middle range as far as psychosis goes) and think that you are imagining that your sh*t was stolen? Perhaps they're just @ssholes, or using this as an excuse to be lazy. Sucks when you know you're right and the world's like 'oh no, it's all in your head because your insane and i'm not and i know better'. Everyone has their own problems, doesn't make us complete dumbsh*ts.
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