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hunter
(38,264 posts)I think long and hard before I call them, and usually I don't.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Im guessing you dont need them too urgently.
pwb
(11,205 posts)One minute, 5 minutes, an hour, days? Long and hard for Trump is a nano second.
hunter
(38,264 posts)I've seen the police shoot people who didn't need to be shot.
I've been threatened by people holding guns, and I have a big knife scar on my arm from some idiot who meant to stab me.
I once bumped into a guy holding a gun and hiding from the police on my back porch. Seconds later the police were pounding on my door and the guy ran away, jumping over my back fence. I refused the police entry into my house, but I told them which way the guy was running. Amazingly they caught him without shooting him.
For all those "too urgently" situations, the cops usually don't get there in time to do anything but push back the bystanders, maybe get a description of the "bad guys," and start their investigations.
I'm not going to call the cops on some crazy homeless guy I caught stealing my lawnmower, or kids spray painting graffiti on my back wall.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)But when I was in college, living alone out in the boonies when everyone else went home for spring break, a crazy, drunk man tried to come into my house.
I had a baseball bat, and I called the cops. They were there faster than I could have imagined. The guy had broken my window by that time.
They threw him against the wall outside. Hard. I wasnt sorry.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)By which I mean, corporate crime. Crimes by rich people like Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump, Goldman Sachs. Right now it seems like their idea of fighting crime is harassing black people for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, yet people like Epstein can practically run a human trafficking ring, get caught, and still escape punishment.
There's no beating around the bush: THAT NEEDS TO FUCKING CHANGE AND IT NEEDS TO FUCKING CHANGE YESTERDAY!
I also want our penal system to focus more on rehabilitation for low level and non-violent offenses. No more Joe Arpaio way of doing things, which has been proven time and again to not work.
tblue37
(64,982 posts)letting them know that they are known. If they have a Facebook page, they need to get a lot of critical comments on it.
DVRacer
(707 posts)When I tell people I dont want to give police more power in the form of red flag laws. Just imagine how they will be enforced and by whom. New black couple moves into a predominantly white neighborhood for his own safety he carrys a gun Patty sees it one day. She calls and at 4 am police raid the house on a tip and kills their 13 year old son and his father. Police find a pistol and rifle and the media says good job we knew he was up to no good.