The last time I called the cops was because at 6 in the morning someone was beating the shit out of someone in an apartment in the building next door. These are old school NYC storefront/apt building combos, so everything is attached. Because of past incidents I don't call the police unless I had to, but the cries were heartbreaking and the woman I was dating at the time insisted. So I call the cops, get ready to go to work.
Hour later they show up, as opposed to going to where the abuse took place they go to my apartment; I am already gone. She comes down to explain to them what happened and it's next door; instead they give her a hard time to make sure she isn't covering up her own domestic abuse.
Which I understand since many abused people are in that fog, but from her perspective (we are both black) she explained it was less 'Are you hurt maam? is he hurting you?' but 'Stop lying to us, you're wasting our time'. She eventually convinced them I called them to try to help our neighbor, not to report myself (lol), but instead of checking out next door...after all of that they just hopped in their car and drove away without checking up on that apartment.
I never found out what happened to that woman.
So yeah, when the copaganda is like 'We run into danger!!!' its more like a shitty delivery driver...the bare minimum to check off that they tried to do their job. Which is why they arrested the first person they saw here while the domestic abuser was probably going for another round.
