Horrible Police Work

Rating: 6/10 (17 November 2013)

We have the detective stating early on that the girls would never have gotten into the RV, but then he did not have the savvy to ask the next question - What did the get into? And instead of him having the RV torn apart he should have gotten the woman's car to search. I am sure there were fibers and prints galore in that car. And why didn't the police officer get the phone records for the suspect. It would have shown he called home that evening.
How did they get taken? Simple - He called home and told her two girls were walking on the street. She came right over and he came out an invited the girls into the RV with a strong leer. They shrank away and the woman came up and comforted them and threatened the man with the police (to get their trust). She then offered to drive them home and that was that.
More incompetent police work happened when the cop sat in the rain watching the loud and obnoxious man go into the liquor store. Then he noticed that he walked out and walked in the opposite direction, but then turned and saw the detective and came over. It just took a little more yelling at the detective for him to abandon his watching. A real police detective would have sent at least two men over in that area to watch. Sloppy police work.
And what detective bangs a suspects head on a table and lets him get a gun?