Nothing. Not even talk to them. Being cordially distant.
Pretty much how I am with all of my neighbors anyway…
Same.
Mostly mind my own business, but expect to have to record and report a domestic abuse.
Would you move away?
how many people can afford to just “move away” if they don’t like their neighbors?
Houses cost roughly 1 house
Moving the stuff inside and the fees and the increased interest rate cost another 1 house. If we’re keeping track, that’s > 1 house to move to one house other than your current one house.
Good for you
I would just mind my business . If he occasionally needs to use a trash can or whatever, I’m not causing any trouble. No reason to assume the worst, but if he starts causing trouble, yeah moving would be the only solution there.
Most people can’t afford to just “move”.
We had cops for neighbours at one place and one down the street in another. Both great people. Used to get together with them, kids played together, etc.
Great people don’t remain cops for long, so I really doubt it
I still know one of them. Have been an acquaintance of another cop for 15 years. Still great people.
Until they witness their coworkers do awful things and say nothing.
And I can tell you with certainty that’s what they do, because the ones that do try to do the right thing are fired at best, and literally murdered at worst.
!! What country do you live in?
The US. Look up Christopher Dorner for just one, high profile, example.
I don’t think you can judge cops worldwide by the cops in your country.
Ok.
This must be US thing I presume?
ACAB applies worldwide, not just the US.
That’s pretty bullshit. And I’m sorry for everyone that thinks this is the case since they probably doesn’t meet normal ones that often as I do…
Just ignore them? I already ignore my neighbours that aren’t pricks, ignoring a prick is no different
Get them really drunk than feed them drugs while you record it for a get out of jail free card.
If you can pull it off, that might legit be worth it, just in case. In a single party consent jurisdiction making the recording wouldn’t even be illegal (IANAL).
Of course, in a perfect world, the cop wouldn’t take drugs, and if they did, would put justice over their personal worry you might hypothetically leak it. I’ll let the readers hash out the probabilities.
Cops can be fine, many of them want to do good. But law enforcement also attracts/breeds a certain type of thumbhead person that either loves or hates you.
Not american here, cops here are actually a trained job with multiple years of training before going out. 3 years pure training minimum and the slightes missbehaviour can get you fired and suspended from your job which will be marked down
I hope earnestly you don’t mean German cops.
No he/she probably don’t. In Germany, the pigs wallow in their own shit and cover each other.
Lol no i dont. Augsburg City Club got raided by 500 police just so the state could show their power again
Yeah, I thought your name narrowed it down to DACH and there’s a lot of German cop apologists out there, because they’re white and only interact with cops during traffic stops.
Oh hell no. Germany is racist af all over
Things are more strict in America, they hold up a mirror to you and if you breathe on it and it fogs up, then you are hired.
Cop lives somewhere down the street.
I ignore him.
But I also have talked to the neighbors on purpose like. Twice. In almost twenty years lol.
My general rule for cops is to keep my head down. They have no particular reason to bother me, but they’re also a certain kind of person. (Inevitably, because the job is awful and nobody else can handle it long-term)
What is awful about the job? I’ve never done it so I don’t know. But it seems like they cannot be fired, even if they mess up so badly that someone dies. That doesn’t sound so bad to me.
They deal confrontationally with the worst people available at their worst moments, and sometimes do it all day. Movies make us think it’s all masterminds and shootouts, but actual calls are 99% drunks, bullies and wife-beaters.
Like, think of the most toxic interaction you’ve ever had. Now consider doing it multiple times a week. You either become toxic yourself or you burn out.
Edit: You know the Florida man meme? Florida just has laws that get more details published. It’s like that everywhere, and probably less funny and more traumatic in person.
Okay but when i’m in a toxic situation at work I can’t shoot someone and get away without consequences lol.
When police show up to a scene, ordinary citizens have no power over them whatsoever. The police have the upper hand, every single time. Whereas if I get into an argument with a co-worker, client, or shopper I could be fired.
The reason workplaces are toxic are because employees are powerless. Police can literally murder people anytime they want and get away with it.
Sure, and if you’re the sort of person that needs everything to be sorted into neat black or white bins, maybe that’s relevant.
The fact that getting screamed at and spit on is unpleasant remains, though.
Police officers aren’t regularly screamed at or spit on. Where are you getting your information from? Are you just making it up?
Yes, they are. You think whatever asshole doing a domestic is above it? They manufacture spit hoods because that’s a regular issue.
I literally witnessed an arrest like this myself within the past month or so.
So your evidence is… a single witness event? And you think that means it happens with regularity? I’m sorry but something isn’t adding up. : /
There was a cop in the neighbor right outside ours ( you have to drive through that neighborhood to get to ours), I thought having him there would curb some of the drug activity, I was wrong. It was obvious pretty early on he was dirty.
Ah, I didn’t know you were superstitious. I don’t believe in the myth of the clean cop.
I thought he would not shit where he ate and keep his neighborhood clean.
Less than agreeable or upright and actually involved in organised crime are two very different things.
Protecting capital over the rule of law and human rights, or protecting those who do is literally being involved in organized crime.
Actually, being a cop is legal.
Cops always defend their bad apples, thus the whole bunch is spoiled.
For context, I’m Canadian and am regularly downright proud of our courts. Our cops on the other hand, no. Just no. Routinely in the papers for egregious criminal activity and abuse of people rights.
In the US, the courts and the cops have long been a shambolic shitshow of gangsterism. Your mileage may vary based on your country.
So? That’s still not what organised crime means.
I’ll use the US as its a much clearer example. For profit prisons with kickback schemes from judges.. Illegal arrests and fines to generate dollars for podunk towns, Abusing RICO statutes for civil forfeiture to straight up rob people extra judicially. It’s straight up racketeering.. Almost everything the LAPD, NYPD, Baltimore PD Ever did. They are notorious.
I wouldn’t really be able to just up and move so I’d just avoid them as much as possible and hope for the best
Not really pay attention to them at all. Can’t be arsed to care, unless they start waving that gun.
