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zebatov posted...

Oh yeah. Found out theyre useless for 95% of calls so I dont bother calling anymore.

For domestic abuse situations, 9-1-1 is truly worthless. And for domestic violence, unless someone is dead, or they believe there's a deadly weapon (gun or knife, anything else does not count), they really don't care.

Police were cruel to allow a man to physically abuse a woman for years, there was bruises and blood, but she wasn't dead, so it was cool. Yeah, the door was removed from hinges, yeah furniture was broke, yeah there was glass everywhere, yeah this went on for weeks, months, and years. But the man said he was sorry, so surely he meant it. It lasted for years of continued 9-1-1 calls being wasteful, staying at family and friends for shelter leading to stalking and continued cyclical abuse, petitions for protective order being blocked due to bi-polar sympathy.

Ultimately it took an undercover CPS agent being present at the time of a 9-1-1 call to have anything done. She knew us from school, knew our father beat us, knew he beat our mother, knew he would stop at nothing, and really, he didn't stop until he died from hypertension a few years later. Maybe Massachusetts was just behind the rest of the U.S., but certainly for the 90s and 2000s, it felt like incompetence.