Nowhere_X_Anywhere t1_ja0hwm2 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 10:44 PM

>so for those of you wondering why the police didn't run the plates, you're not alone.

Yeah, I cannot imagine any issues at all with the police complying with every private citizen's request to run the plates on some random vehicle.

The landowner, outside of claiming it wasn't theirs did absolutely nothing that would have warranted the police running the plate and giving the property owner the RV owner's info.

There is a reason you cannot just go to the DMV and demand info on someone based on their plate number.

If you want that info you need to start legal proceedings and prove that you have a legal justification to that info.

This protects you, I and everyone from some random crazy pulling your plate 'cuz they though you cut them off and showing up at your house .

The property owner had other options at their disposal they never pursued, like filing an abandoned property claim, and as this is resolved never need to pursue now.

It would be nice if a few more folks did a bit of research before leaping to 'the cops are lazy, the cops are lazy and they should have just doled out private info, the cops are lazy and should have had it towed, etc., etc.'

simonhunterhawk t1_ja0j9w6 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 10:54 PM

In this situation the cops wouldn’t have even needed to give up the information, they could have found the person’s contact info through the DMV and contacted them directly.

zeeke42 t1_ja0ozyk wrote on February 25, 2023 at 11:36 PM

No one's saying they should hand out the info. Just call the owner and ask what's up.

Stickyfynger t1_ja0lb4t wrote on February 25, 2023 at 11:09 PM

MPD wasn’t interested in offering OP guidance. Sounds like they found their out (private property-nothing we can do) and that was that.

vexingsilence t1_ja21deb wrote on February 26, 2023 at 6:37 AM

Bet if someone left a trailer on an MPD cop's property, they'd handle it differently.

gundamx92000 t1_ja2598m wrote on February 26, 2023 at 7:26 AM

No one was asking the police to give the owner the person's phone number. They were asking the police to contact the owner of the trailer. This does not breach any privacy.

IntelligentMeal40 t1_ja2yfe9 wrote on February 26, 2023 at 1:31 PM

This is off the rails nobody was asking the police to give this person the trailer owners phone number, the police could call them I’ve had the police show up at my house to tell me things because they found my address in the DMV database.

Vequithan t1_ja37ozq wrote on February 26, 2023 at 2:47 PM

Shit, I deal with people using my apartment’s dumpster as their own dumping ground because why should they have to pay anything for the landfill? My neighbor called the cops after midnight because she saw people dumping a bunch of trash bags in our dumpster and also yelling. Cop arrived after they had left, dug through the trash a bit and managed to find mail WITH THEIR ADDRESS ON IT! Contacted them immediately and forced them to clean it all up (they did!). They absolutely can handle situations like OP’s on their own. And even then, an officer has every legal right to obtain information from the DMV for an illegally parked car on someone else’s property. This person’s response makes no sense either because OP wasn’t cut off on the road or any other reason they listed. This is totally within legal grounds to do at least a little legwork to help out a citizen they swore to protect and serve.