The officers decided to catch a Snorlax instead of criminals
A California Court has denied the reinstatement appeal of two Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers who were under fire for ignoring a robbery call to play Pokémon Go. They said incident happened in 2017, when the pair of officers received a call for backup because a robbery in progress happening at a department store close to their area. Instead of responding, however, the two officers ignored the request and left the area.
The patrol commanding officer at the time later arranged a meeting with the pair for their lack of response over the incident, but the two officers said they failed to hear the call because of the loud noise at the area. Still suspicious, the patrol commanding officer decided to investigate further and reviewed the in-car recording system, which later revealed what the court document described as "new and disturbing facts." According to the document, the pair of officers did hear the radio call about the robbery, discussed it, and then decided not to respond to it.
A detective was later called in to further investigate the incident, who found that the pair "wilfully failed to respond to the robbery call and attempted to conceal" their act.
The detective also discovered that the two officers were playing the Pokémon Go video game on the same day - where the pair drove to "different locations where the virtual creatures apparently appeared on their mobile phones." The recordings from...
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