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Highland Park police urge detailed suspect descriptions, warn residents about door-to-door alarm sales
Summary
Police chief advised residents on how to identify suspects safely — emphasising permanent identifiers — and warned about suspicious early-morning or late-night door-to-door alarm-system sales, asking people to call police rather than open doors.
Police Chief told a Highland Park neighborhood meeting that residents can help investigations by reporting detailed, permanent identifiers when they see suspicious activity and by calling police rather than opening doors to strangers selling alarm systems.
The chief said the most useful details for identifying suspects are features that cannot be changed quickly — tattoos, scars, facial hair, shoes, jewelry and vehicle descriptions — and urged residents not to approach suspects. “I don't want anyone approaching anybody and, you know, jeopardizing your safety,” the chief said.
Why it matters: brief or generic descriptions such as “wearing all…
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