Like sorry I’m a little person & my bf is not, but I’m 21 years old not a child. Could’ve came up to us & asked if they were so concerned.
120 cm
Thank you
Why are you mad at the cops and not the person who called them? That’s like getting mad at the firemen and not the arsonist.
Because this is lemmy where not only does one’s personal experience with a thing cast a blanket judgement of the entirety of that thing for all time, but now, because of that one persons anecdotal experience, ALL people’s opinions are entrenched it the same blanket judgement.
Do cops write laws, no. Crooked politicians write unjust laws. Cops know laws are unjust and enforce them anyway.
What do you do for a living?
I pimp out your mother, I thought you knew?
That’s literally their job. I do not want my politicians acting as cops, and I sure as hell don’t want cops acting as politicians.
Yeah — if you don’t like laws in a democracy, you have a solution — elect legislators that will create laws that you want. If they can’t get support for it, then you don’t have adequate support in society for rules that work the way you want.
The answer definitely isn’t a police force that acts as an independent arm of government that disregards the law and decides what laws it wants to enforce. You wind up in a situation like that and you definitely will have corruption…from that police force.
The fact that they took the job in the first place is morally dubious don’t you think?
Any sensible dispatcher will filter out calls by a crazy person. Any sensible officer responding to the report could easily tell that OP is a little person not in an emergency situation and decide not to bother them. The fact that neither of these things happened speaks volumes…
To be fair, it’s often difficult to judge a situation over the phone. Some crazy people sound like regular ones. And even more so in the opposite direction. Normal people might sound crazy in emergency situations. So there isn’t really a reliable way to tell them apart. And they then need to dispatch someone to find out.
Plus with good cops you’d rather have them one too many times then one too few.
Yeah exactly. I mean it takes some balance and they absolutely need to be sensitive. But it is like this in some professions. Once you put in the effort to put away your lunch, put on the gear, drive somewhere etc, you’re then going to engage, almost no matter what. At least talk to people and try to assess the situation. Same for firefighters, paramedics and even some technicians. And it’s the right call in lots of inconspicuous situations. At some point they stop giving a f… and just bother people because the alternative is they’ll occasionally have to return to the same situation several hours later and it’ll usually have become worse in the meantime. Plus after some days in any of those jobs, you’ll notice that half of the people lie to you in one way or another. So you start to not trust people anymore, but make sure yourself.
(And I think this situation kind of matches this. They could have asked for an ID because it’s standard practice, or because they’re bastards, or because they needed some lame excuse to spend more time talking to OP to assess the situation and see how people react and behave.)
No, they most certainly will not. I don’t know who told you this, but even though a 911 dispatcher caught “filtering calls” may be immune from civil liability and negligence lawsuits, if pressed, they can lose their immunity if ifs discovered that they were grossly and/or willfully negligent.
In the least- they’re definitely getting fired.
A Little Person on Lemmy! Woo! Go representation!
But also, does this sort of thing happen to you often, as an LP with a regular boyfriend? Just curious.
Fucking infuriating! This happened to my 4’11" bestie because her husband is 6’ 6". They have been called out in public so many times and had to provide they are 14 months apart in age. Funny when they were 15 and 17 but now It’s been happening for 20 years!
I’m sorry you had to deal with that, people suck. ☹️ People with dwarfism are smaller (duh), but you don’t look like children! That person and the cop are dumber than a bowl of hammers. Or they’re just trying to bully someone… Try not to let worthless people like that get to you!
I’ve seen people with dwarfism that do look like they could be teenagers when they are already adults. I know it sucks for OP but I’d rather cops do this than let potential abuses slide. Doesn’t seem like OP was very inconvenienced by this tbh other than being uncomfortable with the situation which is understandable.
Jesus fucking Christ, I guess i can understand middle class people thinking they like the police, but the fucking abelism in this thread is pretty insane. Didn’t expect that here.
wait ur tiny?
