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    Default Am I a Nuisance 911 Caller

    I am just curious if someone would be considered a nuisance for calling the police out to much on their neighbors. I live in a pretty bad neighborhood and in the last 3 years, I have probably had to call the police out for various reasons on different people 30 to 40 times. I am thankfully moving out in two weeks to a better area, but I have gotten to know the police pretty well in my area. Every call I placed was for a legitimate reason and I know that many of the calls have resulted in an arrest of one or more people.

    Tonight, I had to call because one of my neighbors had 2 males and 2 females fighting in the backyard and playing loud music at 1:00 in the morning. The police showed up and arrested 3 of the 4 people. They were drunk and shoving each other around alot.

    Last week, I called about a large party at the end of my street. They were parking on the yard, the sidewalk and blocking the street. They were telling people to go around and take the back road in. There were maybe 20 something cars parked in front of a single house. Once the police came out, one of the guys started arguing with the police and was promptly introduced to the hood of the police car, then given some new jewelry to wear behind his back.

    The time before that was some gang kids drawing graffiti on the shed across the alley. They were lined up on the curb for several hours once the police chased them down through the neighborhood on a foot chase. I heard from my neighbor that they are still in jail.

    When the police come out, they don't seem annoyed from coming out to much, but I am wondering what they say about it after they leave. I just don' t want to have to call them out for something where my family is in danger and they get the call and have the attitude that it's just that guy that always calls again.

    opinions?

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    In many areas you'd be considered That Nuisance Guy, that's true.

    There may be much eye-rolling, but they have to do their jobs. Bless them. (And LEOs, I mean that most sincerely - you know that).

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    It sounds as if you are calling about real events and not just phony hullaballoo that you make up to get back at the neighbors.

    If any of the officers are getting miffed at you, that is their problem - not yours. You are doing what we tell fellow citizens to do: Report suspicious and criminal activity.

    You are lucky, however, that these local thugs have not sought some payback for you calling the cops so much. Records of calls to the police are generally public record subject to release upon request except when the release of that information might endanger the reporting party. But, it sounds as if you would fall into the latter category.

    I'd say you have nothing to be ashamed of and would like to see more people with the stones to report real problems.

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    I am a licensed CHL carrier and my wife always carries under the MPA in Texas. I refuse to be afraid in my own house.

    Generally when I call, I tell the dispatcher that I do not want to be identified and I do not want the responding officer to make contact with me. Several of the officers know about the small arsenal of weapons and ammo I keep on sight and they do not seem to have an issue with it.

    I had an instance a couple years ago where I had a run in with a younger Hispanic male loitering in the alley behind my house and I called the police. I was out washing my truck in the driveway. About 20 minutes after the call, the same guy came running through my backyard, jumped the fence and ran right past me. I tried to grab him but he was to quick. I had brought out my 12 gauge earlier just in case. I grabbed it from the back of my truck immediately after he ran by. A few seconds later a police car emerged from the alley pursuing him. He lost him at that point and came back to talk to me. All he did was ask me to place it in the back seat. He came up and spoke with me for a while and we had a friendly conversation. He even was admiring the woodwork on the shotgun.

    Later on that day, they caught the guy at home. He told them he saw me get the gun out and heard me pump the shotgun. He said he had never run that fast in his life and he was terrified I was about to shoot him. I have never seen him anywhere near my house again and when I drive down the street and see him, he will not look me in the eye. That is fine by me. In this neighborhood, I am happy to be known as the heavily armed gun nut that mows his yard with a Python on his side and will shoot first, ask questions later.

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    Quote Quoting bcdudley
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    I am a licensed CHL carrier and my wife always carries under the MPA in Texas. I refuse to be afraid in my own house.

    Generally when I call, I tell the dispatcher that I do not want to be identified and I do not want the responding officer to make contact with me. Several of the officers know about the small arsenal of weapons and ammo I keep on sight and they do not seem to have an issue with it.
    Your wishes would not outweigh state law with regards to public records. Fortunately for you the flotsam and jetsam do not know how to (or do not care to) push the issue when the police say, "No" to their requests.

    As for the weapons and ammo you keep on site, I don't know why the officers would have an issue with it. Unless you are for some reason prohibited from possessing them, then it's your right to possess lawful firearms and ammo.

    In this neighborhood, I am happy to be known as the heavily armed gun nut that mows his yard with a Python on his side and will shoot first, ask questions later.
    That's great so long as the locals do not decide they have had enough of you. Many people do not have the fortitude you have, and many would not wish to put themselves and their property at risk. All the guns in the world wouldn't protect cars in front of the house, animals in the yard, windows, walls, etc.

    I'm certainly not criticizing, but your attitude is a rarity and not everyone has the stones for it.

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    That is exactly why I am moving out in 2 weeks, so I do not have to be that person. I was not this way when I first moved in here, but I kind of grew into the role after I had several teenagers wearing what to me, looked like gang clothes, try to pick up my 4 year old daughter over the chain link fence in the the back yard for whatever reason, they said they just wanted to play with her. Then 3 break ins ( 1 in the house and 2 in my truck), a fight on my front yard between gang kids and the constant graffiti on my property, I got tired of it. I still have to repaint my garage in the back about once a month, but that has gotten better. It used to be almost every day.

    I have been trying to move for almost 2 years now, but credit issues have prevented it. I have repaired my credit enough now so that I am able to do something about it.

    Thanks for the opinions.

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    Having worked 911 (and currently dispatching for state-level law enforcement), I'm in complete agreement with Carl. Sounds like there's a lot of activity in your neighborhood that isn't, shall we say, condusive to peaceful and lawful living. It's not YOUR fault that other people around you choose to behave in ways that put you (and probably other neighbors too) in states varying from annoyance to fear - and I can honestly say that law enforcement would rather get the chance to respond to things that are going on, rather than have to piece things together after the fact (for example, rather get a call about a suspicous person NOW, when officers have a chance to locate them and see what's going on, than to have to take a fistfull of burglary, criminal mischief, vandalism, or other reports later). Lemme tell ya, nothing annoys dispatchers MORE than someone calling in about something that happened "yesterday" or "sometime last week"...as if it took them that long to look up the number for "911". Given the number of your calls that have resulted in legit cases for your local boys in blue, I'd be willing to bet that rather than an eyeroll, the dispatchers "get it" that your call is likely to be something fruitful, and it wouldn't surprise me if they started units rolling your way as soon as the call came in, due to your history of being a credible and relevent source of information...as opposed to callers who call every night to say that aliens are monitoring their thoughts, to ask where to go vote (yes, people really call 911 for that), where to find a plumber (ditto), or for situations where they are "shopping" for a dispatcher willing to send an officer for something that's a civil matter...I could go on and on....

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    I'd hafta say keep up the good work!

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    Thank you,
    I feel much better about it now. I have noticed that when I have called for the last year or so, the police usually show up in less than 5 minutes. On the call I made the other night, they were driving down the alley before I even finished calling it in. I never thought about it that way.

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