• Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Please do not call the police on the homeless in the USA.

      there is no possible good outcome from doing this

      • Edelgard [she/her]
        hexagon
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        3 years ago

        You’re calling a state funded death squad to your door. Bare minimum, they’re shooting your dog.

        #ByeByeFido

      • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        There are situations where indiscriminate violence actually makes a situation better, unfortunately, and in those situations you should call the cops.

              • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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                3 years ago

                Imagine a situation where there is already brutal violence being done to you or someone else. In that situation, the worst case scenario when you call the police is that you or that other victim have brutal violence done to them by the cops. But that's not a downgrade, that's just what was already happening. Best case is they stop the violence.

                • SerLava [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  Yeah if you're getting murdered, you don't have much to lose, and even the worst cops usually just want to have a belt notch of stopping a murder, in which case they will often attempt to actually target the correct person. No guarantees though!

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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          3 years ago

          What you need to do is call different police departments to the same spot, then set off firecrackers and initiate the indiscriminate violence in which all actions of the officers are their own

    • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      I made this mistake once. I feel very bad about it.

        • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          It was late at night at my fast food job and both me and my supervisor were closing and the only guy in the lobby was some homeless guy and all of a sudden he starts screaming and crying at the top of his lungs about how no one loves him and how his mom abandoned him and he like he is dying (dude was an alchoholic so he was probably having some withdrawal symptoms or something). Neither of us really give a shit and we're both just kind of messing around and talking but he doesn't stop and we're both like, "yo what if this dude is actually dying?" and then IIRC someone else came in, and he started yelling at them and we were both like "ok lets call 911" and the dispatch decides to send the police because of how we said he was yelling at a customer

          keep in mind this guy is like literally 120lbs at the most and is an old drunkard

          so we wait and then police literally surround the entire building, they show up with like 5-6 squad cars all pointing their headlights into the lobby and they come in and pull the guy off his seat and start patting him down and interrogating him as a group for what seems like forever

          at one point his pants fall down and I see his bony ass and balls

          anyway they take him away kinda just picking him by his arms with his feet dragging like he was stood up and the whole time he's still fucking screaming as loud as he can and both me and my supervisor are like

          "what the fuck just happened?" just because of how disproportionate the response was to some old ass man