I called the police on my neighbor. Was I right to do so?

Question

Last night my daughter, and I had to call the police on the neighbor across the street. Well, it was her daughter... The parents were gone, and left the 19 year old daughter in the house. Well, about 3:00 in the morning we hear a loud banging on a door. It was so loud that we thought someone was at our door. We get up, and see, and hear, I guess her boyfriend banging on the door, and calling her a whor3. Well, we notice that another guy ran from the side of the house. Well, the boyfried was yelling, saying, "Where is the N word you've been Fing? and on, and on. Well, she, like a dumb, dumb opens the door, and the guy starts pulling her hair, calling her a N word loving whor3. He then goes to the side walk, and starts yelling "***** is a whor3, she's Fing an N word!!!" Now, we live in an upper middle class neighborhood, and our neighbors just tend to ignore, but I couldn't. I called the police, because I was afraid someone would get killed. My husband says I should of stayed out of it.

Was I right to call the police? I really am surprised that my neighbors chose to do nothing. I was afraid, and my kids were even wakened by this guy.

Answer 1

You were Definately in teh right position to call the cops , just think if that was happening to your kid and someone else watched it all go down and never did anything, i am 17 and if i saw that happen to another person i would have called the cop too WELL DONE!!!

Answer 2

You were definitely in the right to call the police. You say in the beginning of your post that "the banging on the door was so loud that you thought someone was at your door," and that constitutes a disturbance of the peace, which is at least a petty misdemeanor in most places. So regardless of what additional happened, the person had broken the law in at least one way to which you were specifically the complainant.

Additionally, since you observed that these actions continued in a way that was threatening to your neighbor, even if you had chosen to let the disturbance go unreported, after seeing these actions, you had good reason to think your neighbor's daughter was being endangered and to call the police. It was the only right thing to do.

You phrase your question as though you "called the police on your neighbor," but instead, you actually simply requested that the police respond to your neighbor's address.

If your husband saw someone breaking into their house when you knew someone was at home, would he feel the same way, that you shouldn't interfere by calling the police? Why should he feel any less strongly that the police should be called when it was apparent that the neighbor could be in immediate danger?

Personally, I think the world needs more good neighbors like you!

Answer 3

If you honestly felt like somewhat was going to be hurt, how could you not call the police? I think you know in you heart that you did the right thing, you are just confused that others would not feel the same way. I think some people are more comfortable living in denial, but the truth is that there are people are there who are dangerous. The sad thing is that 19 year old girl sounds like she will probably stay with this guy given that she wasn't wise enough to call the cops herself and to lock the door.

I think you deserve praise for caring enough to do something!

Answer 4

You were definitely right to call the police. You witnessed a crime in progress, and this girl could have been seriously injured, kidnapped, or killed by her racist abusive boyfriend. He was out of control.

You did "stay out of it" by not confronting the man on your own, which would have been very dangerous. He could have turned his rage on you, and he might have been armed. You did the right thing by staying in your house and calling the police. Ask your husband what he would want the neighbors to do if it had been YOUR daughter in that situation. I'm sure he'd want some Good Samaritan to look out for her and seek help for her.

Answer 5

You did the right thing. The problem with a lot of People is they just don't want to get involved. So say you call the police, how is anyone going to know it was you. people are so damned afraid someone will come after them, that theyy choose to ignore the situation. But I'm sure if these People were in trouble they would want others to get involved. So you were totally right. Way to go.

Answer 6

Hell yes! Call the cops on the punk. If he is stupid enough to act like an idiot he deserves to be accountable for his actions. Of course if I was the person being disturbed I'd have probably yelled "there he goes" and pointed out the fleeing figure. Let him chase the guy down the block so I can get some sleep. Anyway it is pretty crummy behavior to sleep with a cheater!

Answer 7

I believe that you were right in calling the police since you felt this girl would be hurt. I have had a similar thing happen with our neighbors across the street but sometimes you have to go with what you know is the right thing to do. We have become this society where we "don't want to get involved". I know that if my daughter was being threatened, I hope that someone else would see fit to get involved.

Answer 8

That is a really fine line on what do to. I think you did the right thing. I was in an abusive relationship. I know for months my neighbors could hear everything. One night it got very bad. Worse than it had been, because everything got a little worse. My neighbor called the cops. Thank god he did because I was able to get out of that relationship. Without his call who knows what more could have happened. You did what you felt was right and went with your gut instinct. You made the right decision and could have saved a life.

Answer 9

You were ABSOLUTELY correct to call the cops. Ask your husband how he would have felt if the boyfriend shot this poor girl dead and you had simply stood by doing nothing. At least now this kid might think twice before coming back to harass her. Good job on your part. There should be MORE people like you in this world who are willing to get involved when needed. Too many people look the other way when they shouldn't. Shame on your husband. You should print these comments out for him and show him that you are not alone in your thinking.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

Yes a situation like that one could get real ugly, real fast. You have no clue what a nut like that guy is liable to start doing and when he does and when the situation goes critical you better hope to hell the cops are rollin'.

Your hubby and your neighbors better change their Sargeant Schultz attitude real fast because silence is exactly what criminals love. They want you scared and they want you to do nothing because it makes it all the easier to burglarize your homes if they know nobody will call the cops. An alert and involved community is the criminal’s nemesis. It is often reason enough for him to try business elsewhere.

Think about it.