Dear News Editors, On August 1, there was some type of car jacking with the reports of a gun at 44th and Larchwood in University City. This was reported on a public listserv and described very poor incompetent police work.
I doubted the veracity of the account and twice attempted to verify the incident at the 18th district precinct on August 3rd. First I was told that the only incident reported that night was an abandoned vehicle report. I later returned to confirm that report with the community affairs officer. He also confirmed that no car jacking occurred and told me I could report the claim as false on the public University City listserv. After receiving a private e-mail August 4 stating the event did indeed happen, I checked a third time this morning and found out that some sort of car jacking occurred. It seems there is an unreported car jacking in this neighborhood. The two perpetrators are apparently at large. And there is apparantly a serious problem with 18th district police work and accurate police information. The Philadelphia police web site describes a Computer Aided Dispatch system giving the false impression that this type of gross incompetence would not occur. I am now the bearer of serious misinformation after reporting publicly that the initial report was false. Please do a news story on this matter and please contact me for any help. The entire community needs to know. I am forwarding this to the univcity@list.purple.com Thank you. Sincerely, Glenn Moyer
