[velobro]

“He said he went up to a police officer and they didn’t help him. So, then he called me."

This is my case with most police officers I've encountered in my area. One isn't going to be taken seriously unless you have information on a cop that's been killed, or blood gushing from a wound on your body.

[ntsplnkv2]

This is typically how police officers will deal with drunk/high people. They can't be realistically expected to respond to every time someone is high.

[sterlind]

Which makes drunk people perfect targets for robberies, hate crimes and murders. Police should always respond, as a matter of public safety. Charge them afterwards if it's a false alarm. What if you called 911 and the dispatcher hung up on you because they thought you sounded high? What if you called because you were date raped?

I have no compassion for lazy cops.

[ntsplnkv2]

I have no compassion for arm-chair anythings. Especially arm chair police officers.

> Police should always respond, as a matter of public safety. Charge them afterwards if it's a false alarm. What if you called 911 and the dispatcher hung up on you because they thought you sounded high? What if you called because you were date raped?

What if you're busy trying to keep a drunk from being an idiot and someone else robs the other drunk across the street? There are ultimately too many drunk assholes to take care of everyone. And most are just fine.

People expect police officers, who are paid well less than half in most GOOD scenarios than software devs, to be mental health experts, perfect shots, masters of all martial arts, expert multi-taskers, all while not going just an inch overboard, else the armchair armies will assemble on twitter. And now they must be able to assess whether this person is just drunk or a victim of a dark web graffiti conspiracy. Yea, no.