Post #2795051

2026-01-19 16:27 UTC

The report number is very important. Cops want to brush off stuff that involves protecting people in my experience, buy having evidence of all this is vital if he starts stalking or something like that. He's unlikely to escalate directly to shooting, but he is at risk of escalation

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@fizzle@quokk.au 2026-01-19 21:54

> Cops want to brush off stuff that involves protecting people That's not my experience here in Australia. Like in domestic violence situations, even where no serious injuries have occurred, police are fairly pro-active in establishing restraining orders and so on. The thing is, the police I've interacted with are very practical, have limited tools at hand, and tend to work on an if-this-then-that basis. If your situation doesn't slot in to an established "this" situation then you're not going to get a "that". If I'm really honest, while I'm sympathetic to OPs situation, I don't really think anyone is in imminent danger. Yes a law has probably been broken but the copper OP spoke to doesn't have the ability to get the ID of the caller, so there's not really much of a process for them to follow. They can't post a couple of cops outside OPs house for the next month just in case he gets into another FB argument. I don't say that to be dismissive of OP, just to demonstrate how it appears from their end. If you don't actually ask to submit a formal report and obtain a report number then it's understandable they don't want to go to the effort to do that either.

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