nitrotc3drifter said:
sorry about the negativity toward cops, but when i get a shotty pointed at me and it takes 45 minutes for them to get here, i am definately gonna be pissed
That is a long time yes. HOWEVER. Police officers DO NOT sit around at the Police Station waiting for calls to come in. They are out in the cars patrolling and answering calls for service. They dont leave they station to go to a call and them come back for the next call. So that part of your reasoning is faulty.
Secondly, I am going to assume that you called AFTER all this happened? And that the immediate threat was gone at the time right?? If so then your call went down on priority because there was NO IMMEDIATE threat at the time you called..
Thirdly, while YOUR call probably seems THE most important thing going on in YOUR life at the moment ITS NOT the only call the Police Department is handing at the time. You and him and her and him and him and you and her are ALL calling the Police Department to have them come out and take care of a situation at the same time. It boils down to manpower or a lack of. Most Police Departments dont have enough manpower on the streets to work all the calls for service immediately. Sooo, what happens is they get prioritized. People calls get higher priority and property calls get lower priority. Now yes yours situation was a pretty darn high priority call, but do you think that maybe others were calling in with calls with just as high of priority as yours? And that they called in BEFORE you did???? And like I said, the threat had left the area.
Also you mentioned that you were mad because no one was arrested. Without any kind of proof, LIKE A GUN then an arrest based on "He said, She Said" wouldnt hold up worth a damn. How would you feel if the Police came to your house and arrested you on someones "word" that you threatened them with a gun, even though they couldn't find one. Bet you wouldn't like that at all huh.
Just somethings to think about before you go and talk down on the Police just because they didn't do what YOU thought they should have...