Some residents of a Halifax neighbourhood say police aren’t taking seriously their concerns about a suspected child predator because they live in low-income area.

Halifax police recently responded to a report of a man approaching a young girl in Mulgrave Park and offering her money to go with him.

A number of neighbours got together and cornered the man in a bus shelter until police arrived.

To their dismay, he wasn’t arrested.

“All they did was just take him away, and did nothing. They didn't charge him or anything,” said local resident Markita Taliafero-Scott.

Now, she says, she’s worried for her own children.

“My concern is that he'll try to come back to the neighbouhood and try it again,” said Taliafero-Scott.

Taliafero-Scott says she’s concerned because, not only was the man not arrested, but there was no follow-up action taken by police that she was aware of.

Now, some Mulgrave Park are saying the way police handled the incident has a lot to do with the neighbourhood in which it occurred.

“It’s a low-income area so they weren’t worried about our kids down here,” said local resident Darlene Upshaw-Tynes.

Police, however, say it’s not that simple.

“We have the community response officer following up with this today, as well as the investigative officer, but right now we don't have evidence that a crime has been committed,” said Halifax Regional Police spokesperson Cst. Pierre Bourdages.

Bourdages said police are taking the incident seriously, and the location where it occurred has no bearing on the investigation.

“We respond to calls throughout the city, no matter what kind of neighborhood it is, or what is the income of the people living there,” Bourdages said.

The fact police didn’t alert the public about the man’s identity and alleged actions is also a cause for concern for some in the community.

“Everybody should know what he looks like, who he is, what he's trying to do, so that other neighbourhoods would be aware of him,” said Taliafero-Scott.

Though police will let people know about cases like this, police say they didn’t in this instance because they have already identified the man at the centre of the case.

But that’s not enough for the residents of Mulgrave Park.

“This is a neighbourhood where we live in, and we should be able to feel safe,” said Taliafero-Scott.

“Our kids should be able to go outside and play without having to worry about someone coming up and offering them money.”

With files from CTV Atlantic’s Kayla Hounsell