<p>The weird thing about this as our department (Seattle, not burb) have recently been in trouble for NOT responding to calls. I’m not sure if it was just at the dispatch level or the department level or who decides, but they were not going out for property crimes such as things stolen out of cars. Finally a columnist wrote about it in the paper because in this day and age everyone can track their stuff and they know where their phone or laptop is. I don’t know if it is some lag in the probable cause and search laws or what but the idea of gratuitous calls (and a response) for just looking wrong seems so strange.</p>