Because this is lemmy where not only does one’s personal experience with a thing cast a blanket judgement of the entirety of that thing for all time, but now, because of that one persons anecdotal experience, ALL people’s opinions are entrenched it the same blanket judgement.
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Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Why are you mad at the cops and not the person who called them?
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 1 month ago
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Do cops write laws, no. Crooked politicians write unjust laws. Cops know laws are unjust and enforce them anyway.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What do you do for a living?
Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I pimp out your mother, I thought you knew?
Pinklink@lemm.ee 1 month ago
That’s literally their job. I do not want my politicians acting as cops, and I sure as hell don’t want cops acting as politicians.
tal@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Yeah — if you don’t like laws in a democracy, you have a solution — elect legislators that will create laws that you want. If they can’t get support for it, then you don’t have adequate support in society for rules that work the way you want.
The answer definitely isn’t a police force that acts as an independent arm of government that disregards the law and decides what laws it wants to enforce. You wind up in a situation like that and you definitely will have corruption…from that police force.
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The fact that they took the job in the first place is morally dubious don’t you think?
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Any sensible dispatcher will filter out calls by a crazy person. Any sensible officer responding to the report could easily tell that OP is a little person not in an emergency situation and decide not to bother them. The fact that neither of these things happened speaks volumes…
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 month ago
To be fair, it's often difficult to judge a situation over the phone. Some crazy people sound like regular ones. And even more so in the opposite direction. Normal people might sound crazy in emergency situations. So there isn't really a way around checking on things.
needanke@feddit.org 1 month ago
Plus with good cops you’d rather have them one too many times then on too few.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 month ago
Yeah exactly. I mean it takes some balance and they absolutely need to be sensitive. But it is like this in some professions. Once you put in the effort to put away your lunch, drive somewhere etc, you're then going to engage. At least talk to people and try to assess the situation. Same for firefighters, paramedics and even some technicians. And it's the right call in lots of inconspicuous situations. At some point the stop giving a f.. and just bother people because the alternative is they'll occasionally have to return to the same situation several hours later and it'll usually have become worse in the meantime.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No, they most certainly will not. I don’t know who told you this, but even though a 911 dispatcher caught “filtering calls” may be immune from civil liability and negligence lawsuits, if pressed, they can lose their immunity if ifs discovered that they were grossly and/or willfully negligent.
In the least- they’re definitely getting fired.
daymoon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 month ago
Lol. Did the cops handle this well, at least? Did it take them time to judge your age, or did they just laugh and leave?
daymoon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Carighan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So… good cop? Sounds perfectly fine tbh, I mean what should they have done? Ignore the call?!
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Still an overstep IMO. Little people don’t look like kids, it’s super uncalled for.
Skunk@jlai.lu 1 month ago
We know it wasn’t in the US otherwise they would have felt threatened and shot you.
Sorry it happened to you.