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

    • Lussy [any, hy/hym]
      ·
      2 years ago

      They may beat you, they’ll probably call you slurs, but some countries put in a little more effort than Americans

      this idea that acab should only apply to America is dangerous bullshit.

    • pppp1000 [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      We don't know if the OP is American or not unless they said it somewhere. Calling the cops without understanding what is even going on without talking to the people involved(again the OP can ask the other neighbors to come along) is a surefire way to get someone potentially killed. You do more harm than good unless it's an absolute life and death situation like a standoff and even then pigs have done more harm than good.