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 lived a couple houses down from a cop.
His whole family were dickish Karen types and got the annual block party shut down. Their house was regularly egged and TPd until they moved. I may or may not have been involved in some of those eggings.
Did your block party get resurrected after they moved?
I’m sure you weren’t egging it, you were at my place that night
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
My grandmother lived next to cop. You don’t want to live next to a cop. They think they’re the authority over EVERYTHING. He built his fence three feet into her yard. What an asshole, thinking he’d run over a 90 year old lady. We forced him to move it.
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.
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.
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. : /
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.
