{"id":1165,"date":"2012-09-12T08:24:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2019-08-27T17:42:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T23:42:22","slug":"to-local-law-enforcement-i-know-you-are-reading-this-blog-so-please-please-read-this-my-goal-here-is-to-help-save-stalking-victims-which-i-know-you-all-want-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"To Local Law Enforcement &#8211; I know you are reading this Blog so please, please read this&#8230;my goal here is to help save stalking victims, which I know you all want as well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. We need mutual aid agreements to respond to stalking that crosses County or State lines<\/p>\n<p>2. Law enforcement needs clear policies within their department for responding to stalking and managing stalking cases<\/p>\n<p>3. Law enforcement needs to be trained to read the signs of stalking &amp; what they mean before the stalking case becomes lethal &#8211; look for the high indicators<\/p>\n<p>4. Investigating stalking: Listen to the victim (carefully and patiently to find out details, even the small ones that the victim doesn&#8217;t necessarily think are important at the time)<\/p>\n<p>5. Look at all the incidents<\/p>\n<p>6. Stalking is a course of conduct that requires continual investigation<\/p>\n<p>7. Put the case of the stalker in context (context is everything in stalking cases) &#8211; the stalkers actions may seem benign, but the meaning behind those actions may be his\/her way of \u00a0knowingly causing fear to the victim, and that is why the stalker has chosen those actions<\/p>\n<p>8. The job of law enforcement is to piece all these pieces of information together (like a puzzle), so you can see a clear picture of the offender in front of you<\/p>\n<p>9. Once you have identified a subject that you have in mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Look for who has a motive to do the acts<\/li>\n<li>Look for corroborating evidence (are there photos, videos of the behavior, answering machine tapes, voice mails, text messages or emails, these things are helpful, but you don&#8217;t have to have them<\/li>\n<li>Interview the suspect, multiple times if necessary<\/li>\n<li>Use other investigative techniques that have been used successfully in other types of cases in law enforcement, wire taps, and other techniques that have been used in narcotics and other types of cases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now once, this should be easy, you know you have an offender that is after a particular victim, how easy can it get? \u00a0All you have to do is focus your investigation on the victim and the offender, and you will catch him in the act of stalking! \u00a0There are certainly more offenders than there are police officers. but our law enforcement should be a lot smarter than the offenders. \u00a0No excuse to not have communication between counties, cities, and states, have mutual aid agreements, offenders travel, victims run to different states or counties and their stalkers follow.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Develop mutual aid agreements<\/li>\n<li>Have policies\/protocol in place to show how you will manage a stalking case that could go on for weeks, months or years<\/li>\n<li>Include the victim in safety planning<\/li>\n<li>Connect victims with advocates<\/li>\n<li>Enforce all orders of protection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can not minimize these cases &#8211; it is the most dangerous thing that you can do in law enforcement &#8211; it is tombstone mentality. \u00a0You can never say, &#8220;well maybe it will get better,&#8221; because that is exactly what the offender wants. \u00a0If we give over with minimization the offender takes over with maximization. \u00a0The offenders are counting on everybody to treat their actions as less than a crime. \u00a0The longer you stay on a case the more you will see what the victim has been trying to tell you all along &#8211; if you walk in the shoes of that victim then you won&#8217;t minimize, then you will get the whole picture.<\/p>\n<p>This important information I have learned from Mike Proctor &#8211; Mike has become one the this nation&#8217;s leading experts on stalking.<\/p>\n<p>F.Y.I. Yesterday, Tuesday, September 11th\u00a0Steve went to roll our trashcan down the long driveway of the house we are now renting, so the trash collectors could pick up our trash down at the end of our driveway, by the street, as always &#8211; but what a surprise he got when he opened the can up to put one last trash bag in it&#8230;it was completely empty! \u00a0Someone had come up our driveway to empty our trashcan. \u00a0The trashcan that was tucked on the side of our garage. \u00a0What a shock &#8211; someone took our trash! \u00a0And mind you &#8211; the new neighborhood we are in is kind of out-of-the-way and the house we are renting is many turns into the neighborhood and at the end of a street &#8211; so this was intentional. \u00a0What would the reason be for this? \u00a0Hope they enjoyed looking through everything as we have nothing to hide &#8211; maybe they should have been this diligent with the criminals.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1166\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?attachment_id=1166\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1166\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1166\" data-attachment-id=\"1166\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?attachment_id=1166\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Morganscandle.jpg?fit=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1536,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;221&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1316003501&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Morganscandle\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Keep the candle burning for all victims of stalking&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Morganscandle.jpg?fit=584%2C584&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1166\" title=\"Morganscandle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Morganscandle.jpg?resize=584%2C584&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Morganscandle.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Morganscandle.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Morganscandle.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Morganscandle.jpg?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Morganscandle.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keep the candle burning for all victims of stalking<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. We need mutual aid agreements to respond to stalking that crosses County or State lines 2. Law enforcement needs clear policies within their department for responding to stalking and managing stalking cases 3. Law enforcement needs to be trained &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=1165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stalking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2wvjS-iN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5150,"url":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=5150","url_meta":{"origin":1165,"position":0},"title":"An Extremely Important Tool For Law Enforcement","author":"Toni Ingram","date":"January 15, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Communication with the victims family is one of the most important tools that law enforcement can utilize in order to solve a case. 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