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 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.
I have no compassion for lazy cops.