Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
I write it all the time, and I’m not the only one who expresses similar advice. And yet, I am never at a shortage for examples with which to embellish the repetition, because the stupid, the foolish, the naive, the delusional, and the evil call them all the time, as do bootlickers, copsuckers, quislings, collaborators, prohibitionists and lawheads. Despite the plethora of examples of cops arriving on the scene and beating, tasing, maiming, raping, arresting or even murdering the subject of the call (or the caller, innocent bystanders, children, pets, each other, and even people in different houses or even different neighborhoods), people who lack either sense, morality or a solid connection to reality just keep on calling them, either out of the childish misbelief that these thugs’ job is to “help” or “protect”, or because they’re sociopaths who actually want to inflict harm on others and fail to comprehend that it could (quite literally, if the cops are bored and decide they want to liven things up with “dynamic entry”) blow up in their faces.
It doesn’t matter what reason you think you have; don’t call them for any reason whatsoever. No, your reason is not different, as you may learn the hard way when someone you love ends up jailed, beaten or dead.
Don’t call them because you see someone with something you think is a weapon.
Don’t call them if you see something you’ve heard is a “sign” of “sex trafficking”.
Don’t call them because somebody is doing something you don’t understand.
Don’t call them because somebody is reading, resting, or sleeping.
Don’t call them because you see a mixed-race couple or family.
Don’t call them because you’re “suspicious” of your neighbor.
Don’t call them because you’re “worried” about somebody.
Don’t call them because you think you see or smell drugs.
Don’t call them because somebody talked to your kid.
Don’t call them because someone is taking pictures.
Don’t call them because somebody pissed you off.
Don’t call them because someone looks “foreign”.
Don’t call them to ask for a “welfare check”.
Don’t call them because someone is black.
Don’t call them to “report” anything.
Don’t call them at all. Period. And don’t call 911 either, because that also results in the cops being called, and whatever information you gave the operator is unlikely to be passed to the cops, which means they’ll arrive in an even greater state of ignorance than the one they generally go about their business in. Don’t call the FBI, ICE, CPS, EPA, or even campus police or security guards, because they’re all just different kinds of cops.
And if somebody else calls the cops, do not talk to them except to ask if you are being detained, and if you’re free to go. Do not joke with them, flirt with them, respond to their conversational gambits, answer “a few simple questions”, try to “help” them, get too close to them, let them into your house, consent to a search, or anything else unless they have a warrant and you have read it and recognize that it does indeed name you (in which case, you’d better look like getting your lawyer on the phone pronto). If they say you are indeed under arrest, shut up except to say “I want my lawyer.” Do not accept any excuses they give about why you can’t have one or don’t need one.
Cops are not your friends, and they are not “public servants”; they are thugs hired by the ruling class to extract money from you and keep you in your place. And your best strategy is to treat every encounter with them as an encounter with a dangerous, unpredictable, rabid wild animal who may maul you for no reason you can adequately comprehend.
