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Re:Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeal... by nvahalik on Thursday October 31, 2019 @08:49AM (#21408136)
No, my point here is that a lot of people don't interact with their neighbors at all. I've had loud neighbors in the past and when I've had a problem gone directly to them and asked them to rectify said issue. They have generally complied.

The point is that if we were all better in "public relations" and de-escalation, we wouldn't need the cops at all. But if the default answer is just simply "call the cops" then people do feel attacked and they tend to get defensive.

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Re:Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeal... by tooop on Thursday October 31, 2019 @08:54AM (#21408169)
If everybody was a first class citizen - sure, we don't need cops, but that is not the reality. It is easier to call the cops instead of doing "PR" with a chance for it to get physical and there are probably quite a lot of examples of just that.
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