10-31-2018, 10:35 AM
(10-31-2018, 09:42 AM)panamaniac Wrote: This thread has been an education for me. I've never had the experience of having to call in a complaint and just assumed that, if need arose, I'd call 911 to report a "disturbance". Perhaps it's good that I never had the experience ....
I've never been quite sure sometimes if I should call 911.
Once there was a bus, which had the emergency signal activated, so the sign on the front said call 911, I did then, and 911 knew quickly it was a false alarm.
But that was easy. Another time, there was a man who was, having a loud argument with a woman, who was with a second man (holding hands, clearly together). The man and the woman seemed to know each other, but the man was telling the second man to leave. I feared that it could turn violent, so I called the police dispatch line and gave a description, and watched, eventually, they parted ways, without the police ever showing up, and I wasn't about to wait around. I wondered what I should have done there, whether 911 would have been appropriate. If they had gotten in a fight, or escalated in some other way, there wouldn't be police showing up.