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    Default 911 Dispatcher and Police Officers Do Not Take Me Seriously

    My question involves police conduct in the State of: CA

    I have a few records on my history like trespassing and restraining orders from my ex gf.

    My roommate threatened my life saying they will kill me by September. I called the police and they told me to move out of my apartment and find a different place and live alone. I asked them why and they said I have issues because of my previous relationships.

    Why is the police department taunting me and passing judgments like that against me?

    What can I do to resolve the situation?

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    Default Re: 911 Dispatcher and Police Officers Does Not Take Me Seriously

    Move out, find a different place and live alone.

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    Move?

    You called the police with a report of something that was not imminent, and which you clearly don't deem credible or you would have already put some distance between yourself and your roommate. With the threat being neither imminent nor credible, there's not much for the police to do.

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    Ditto. There's not much the police can do in a situation involving allegedly pending disturbances. All they can really do is make suggestions as to how to provide for your safety.

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    Default Re: 911 Dispatcher and Police Officers Do Not Take Me Seriously

    Quote Quoting davidmyers1980
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    My question involves police conduct in the State of: CA

    I have a few records on my history like trespassing and restraining orders from my ex gf.

    My roommate threatened my life saying they will kill me by September. I called the police and they told me to move out of my apartment and find a different place and live alone. I asked them why and they said I have issues because of my previous relationships.

    Why is the police department taunting me and passing judgments like that against me?

    What can I do to resolve the situation?
    Go to the police department and file an internal affairs complaint against the dispatcher. Dispatchers aren't paid for running a life guidance hotline; if you were threatened by someone - they should provide information on how to file a report and criminal complaint.

    Go to the police station tomorrow morning, file an internal affairs complaint against the dispatcher ... then ask to file a police report for criminal or terroristic threats to which you will file a criminal complaint under.

    Whether or not the prosecutor would even take up the case and press charges ... is another story.

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    Dispatchers are paid to dispatch, not enforce the law or practice law. At most, they should send an officer to investigate a potential homicide by September. If OP needed a police officer, he should have asked for one then. I suggest you review OP's posting history before finding him aggrieved.

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    Go to the police department and file an internal affairs complaint against the dispatcher. Dispatchers aren't paid for running a life guidance hotline; if you were threatened by someone - they should provide information on how to file a report and criminal complaint.

    Go to the police station tomorrow morning, file an internal affairs complaint against the dispatcher ... then ask to file a police report for criminal or terroristic threats to which you will file a criminal complaint under.

    Whether or not the prosecutor would even take up the case and press charges ... is another story.

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    Quote Quoting Eric777
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    Go to the police department and file an internal affairs complaint against the dispatcher.
    I don't see where it was a dispatcher that made the suggestion. It could have been an officer.

    Go to the police station tomorrow morning, file an internal affairs complaint against the dispatcher ... then ask to file a police report for criminal or terroristic threats to which you will file a criminal complaint under.
    The OP cannot file a criminal complaint. They report an incident to the police, the police investigate and the police send it to the DA if they feel there is probable cause to believe a crime has occurred and the suspect has committed the crime. However, given the brief explanation by the OP no crime for criminal threats (PC 422) appears to have occurred. At BEST, if communicated via text, email, or phone, then this could be a crime for harassing communications per PC 653m ... though unlikely to be prosecuted given a single communication.

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