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Originally Posted by Bent Wookie
You posted a "what if" scenario, and I don't see the relevance. Not everyone who is drinking is belligerent and aggressive. Some are, but that doesn't mean the police can ignore everyone in that situation. If the second sentence in a conversation with a police officer has "f-ing pig" in it, then no, I wouldn't expect the police to listen that well. But realistically most people don't talk like that anyways. And really it shouldn't matter that much anyways. If the police officer was called a pig a minute before by another drunk and lifers girlfriend asked for help, he isn't absolved of his duty.
I posted a rather common occurance (scenario as you called it) to try to add some perspective. I think it is relevant. And I agree with you, not every situation should be ignored simply because someone is drunk- as I stated, I am willing to bet she was offered some advise on how to pursue it when she sobered up. And yes, realistically, A LOT of people talk that way especially in that setting.
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You would lose that bet. She was simply told by the officers (who didn't take the time to walk half a block to see what was going on) that it happened all the time, and there was nothing they could do because it was a he said, she said situation. That's it. If there were going to offer advice on how to pursue things in the morning it would have been a whole lot easier if they had made the effort to even get the names of the people involved.
As I've said before, the truth of the situation likely does lie in the middle (though I will never hear the other side of the story no matter how much I'd like to meet the guy to get it). I have no doubt that they were arguing with the guys. I'd just like to have seen the cops spend 5 minutes and try to see if there was anything they should be doing. They didn't. That's pathetic. There is no excuse for it (even if they were waiting for the juicy jumbo they had just ordered to come off of the BBQ).
Thanks for the heads up on the pepper spray. I didn't know it was illegal. Oh well. I'll just tell her to make sure she only uses it at 3am when drunk people are involved. There is nothing the cops could or should do about that anyway.