--- title: "Open Letter To Local Police Officers & Police Leadership" canonical: https://romancescamsnow.com/open-letter-to-local-police-officers-police-leadership/ type: post author: "SCARS Institute Editorial Team" published: 2023-05-02 modified: 2023-05-02 categories: ["♦ LAW ENFORCEMENT - JUSTICE - INVESTIGATION", "2023", "Editorial & Commentary", "Governmental Entities & Agencies", "Law Enforcement Support", "Laws & Regulations", "♦ CRIMINOLOGY / VICTIMOLOGY", "♦ SCARS ADVOCACY"] summary: "" organization: "SCARS Institute - Encyclopedia of Scans - World's #1 Anti-Scam Website - Romance Scams NOW" organization_url: https://romancescamsnow.com/ llms: https://romancescamsnow.com/llms.txt --- # Open Letter To Local Police Officers & Police Leadership # Open Letter To Local Police Officers & Police Leadership ## Helping Law Enforcement Understand Why Reporting Matters ### Open Letter to Local Police - SCARS Commentary ## Attention Police Officers And Leadership - Local Police Please Take Victims' Reports We have to change the mentality of the local police in the United States regarding Scams & Financial Fraud crimes. Our local police do a great job, but the fact is that crime victims are being denied their right to report these crimes every minute of every day is unacceptable. Scam victims contact their local police to report these crimes and are turned away because local police often do not want unsolvable crimes on their books! These victims are profoundly traumatized to begin with, trauma equivalent to that of sexual assault or domestic abuse. Your local police officers need to understand this. The reason why 97% (or more) scam victims DO NOT REPORT is that they hear from each other just how difficult it is to report these crimes to their local police. ## Reporting EVERY crime matters! We ask all local police to be the professionals we know they are and take these crime victims' reports. The local report may not be something you can investigate, but more often now you can - in more and more cases, you can recover the victim's money. Plus these victims need to declare themselves as innocent victims since more and more of them are being prosecuted just for being victims and sending money to the transnational criminals that controlled them. The National Police Association wants you to take these reports also - READ THIS: [https://nationalpolice.org/why-reporting-crime-matters](https://nationalpolice.org/why-reporting-crime-matters) **Financial fraud IS NOT a victimless crime.** 20 or more victims take their life each DAY in the U.S. because of these crimes. These are violations, an act of violence against the elderly all the way down to teens. ### We ask you to train your local police teams so they stop thinking this is a joke and respect the victim's rights. Take the report! 1 in 10 Americans will be the victim of a scam each year! The victims are our parents and grandparents, our siblings, and our children, our spouses. At a minimum 10% of your community has been victimized, but it is made so difficult to report these crimes that you are unaware, victims are giving up - they do not want to report them now. These crimes are larger than gun violence, drugs, and terrorism combined. They destroy more lives too! You need to learn what these really are and how important you are in helping the victims of these crimes. Together, we have to change this perception that these are not crimes or that they are poison cases. these crime victims depend on you! And so does SCARS ([AgainsScams.org](http://AgainsScams.org)) - we advocate for victims worldwide! Tim McGuinness, Ph.D., DFin, MCPO, MAnth Managing Director Society of Citzens Against Relationship Scams Inc. [www.AgainstScams.org](http://www.AgainstScams.org) [contact@AgainstScams.org](mailto:contact@AgainstScams.org) ♦♦♦ PLEASE SHARE ♦♦♦