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This is one of my pet peeves about current police work. Many cities have stopped investigating accidents if there is no injury. Some counties refuse to investigate accidents at all, just notifying DPS of it. This is poor customer service.

The reason behind it is the same as the reason for many other cuts in police service. The claim that it costs too much money and takes too much time. I thought this is what we pay taxes for, and if the budget needs to be higher to cover all of the required services, cut the money given away to non-critical services (like donations to various charities or arts programs).

I am a firm believer in full service police departments where an officer shows up to take a report if you call 911 about anything (and yes, I have had some very unusual calls).

And the comment about the self-reported accident not showing up on your driving record is not true. The law does require all accidents investigated by police to be reported to DPS, but they keep all accidents on your driving record, no matter how it gets reported.

The only good thing about police not handling minor accidents is that two mature and reasonable people can work it out between themselves if they want, with no police or insurance getting involved. That just seems so rare in today's society as to not justify a department not investigating it.