like I don't wanna be mr cracker callin cops but say you hear your neighbor bang on his front door so loud it shakes your apartment 3 rooms away, you hear him inside yelling with a woman, hard to tell what they say, but you clearly hear "get out of my face" from her, and either "give me my keys" or "give me my kids" (but wtf???) from her, shouting, and then pounding like someone is being flung around the room
is this cop time? do cops make things worse? is this "just talk to your neighbors" time even though the clear and present threat of violence is there?? I literally do not know what to do. I panicked, I called the cops, I think they literally just talked to the guy and then left.. idk what the alternative would be, I can't just get the woman alone to ask if she's okay when the dude's almost always there, guy is like 7 foot fuck,
e: I don't know how to reconcile "all cops suck they make everything worse" with not wanting to be a fucking bystander when someone is potentially (from all the sensory information I can gather) getting beaten by their partner
We live in the world as it currently is, not in the one we would like to have. It would be nice to be able to call someone skilled in psychology and conflict resolution or a people's militia that was responsible to the community but we don't have those things at the moment.
If you are afraid the people next door are hurting eachother lots of times cops are your only realistic option to save the victim. It's a shitty option but if the alternative is doing nothing and letting the abuse go on then you shouldn't feel bad for doing it.