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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
all someone had to do was call the cops, but no they had the "don't talk to the cops attitude," and someone lost their life. That was someone's family member, I hope that it's not ever yours or one of your friends. Simple burglary sometimes ends up in homicides. A call to the po po could avert that, but your pride gets in the way. It's on your head not mine thank goodness.
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I don't know that you can chalk it up to a "don't talk to the cops attitude." I think that shit like this can happen, not necessarily because people don't want to talk to the cops, but because people think that someone else is going to call the cops.
That being said, i don't know if anyone here who is currently advocating discretion when it comes to calling the cops would have not called the cops in this particular instance for that particular reason. I don't know, though.
Strange,
roach, would you guys rather let someone get raped and murdered than call the cops? I imagine not, but you never know.
How about another tricky moral question: What if you saw someone breaking into your neighbor's house, called the cops, then found out after your neighbor gets arrested that your neighbor was engaged in some illegal, yet essentially harmless, activity that ended up getting exposed because you "did the right thing?" Your neighbor goes to prison because somebody wanted to steal his/her laptop and you wanted to do the right thing. Was it worth it? Is your neighbor glad that you were looking out for them?
I've had my shit stolen before and it sucked, but let me tell you, there are worse things that can happen; some of those things can be the direct result of the involvement of police officers. I'm not saying that calling the cops isn't necessary, or that i wouldn't do it if i saw someone breaking into somebody else's property, because i probably would. All i'm saying is that the decision should not be made without a little thought and that the police aren't always the right answer.