Ex-cop here...weighing in.
Do not mistake anything that I am about to say as condoning the actions, and or inactions, of the Police Department, in your sister's area.
From the sounds of it...it's classic burnout. You are looking at the situation from a completly black perspective. Somewhere out there is an advocate for the mentally handicapped that is going to view it from a completelly white perspective. (the actual reality is, more like as not, somewhere in between...the gray area). Now...you have the perpetrator's rights to consider. (yes...he does have rights.) So...between the perpetrator's rights, and his advocacy group. (there is one, trust me) The police have to walk a silk fine line to avoid the case being thrown out.
Now comes the "victim", or plaintif, if you will...ie, your sister. She wants something done about this creep. And NOW. Can't blame her. So would any other reasonable person. So now...the cops are taking it on both sides of the chin. Now come the attorneys. "Poor, poor, Mr. Perpetrator. He was never hugged as a child. He has problems that you will never understand. And to top that off...he was traumatized by the police. Yes...traumatized. He deserves compensation. But...we'll save that for the civil trial. My client, in reality didn't do anything but try to open a window, to say hello, to the plantif. No one was hurt. He never actually entered the dwelling..."
See where I'm going with this? The case is going nowhere. There is no reason to fill out a report. There is no way, and I mean no way to win, as a cop. Were these cops asses? Yeah. No doubt. But I've been in thier shoes, and walked the mile. It's not them, so much as it's the judicial system that failed your sister.
I would, in all sincerity, advise your sister to purchase a handgun, and learn how to keep and use it safely. Take a class with her. They're really not as scary as they seem.
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