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[–] Pattoe [S] ago  (edited ago)

Had some pretty bad neighbours in the past too, worst one was abusing his girlfriend, called the police numerous times on them. Luckily I've gotten good neighbours this time around.

Where I live you can't call the police over noise complaints. You have to call the council, which are only open in business hours. They then tell you that if the problem persists for longer than 6 months to call them again, then they'll check on the house that is causing the problem at random intervals for the next year and then if they see anything out of the ordinary they will begin a process to deal with the problem that can take anywhere up to a year.

So in short, if you have noise problems from neighbours our council might sort it out in 2 and a half years, if you are lucky. (This doesn't include domestic violence, however, the police do deal with that.)

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[–] happycatsunshine 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Whoa.... Is that typical in the UK? That sounds so inefficient. So basically people can be awful and get away with it for months if not years. Wow. I'm legitimately stunned.

Here we can call the cops but its not guaranteed that they will come or help. I saw a driver hit a parked car once and damage it, got the license and called, no one showed. More recently someone stole my credit card and bought a bunch of stuff to grow drugs, and shipped it to my house while I was on vacation. I called thinking that the police would want to look into it but they blew me off. If you have money, they will help. The noise complaint was lucky.

I live in New Jersey near Manhattan, its very crowded, I guess they don't have time or are too lazy.

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[–] Pattoe [S] ago 

Not sure how typical it is in the rest of the UK, my council is ridiculously inefficient, and the police force isn't much better. It took this family over 2 years to be evicted and they were setting fire to stuff and dealing drugs.

The police respond sometimes, it seems mostly luck based. I once had the police called on me when I used to fund raise for the WWF door to door (Not voluntary, for commission, it was a terrible job) because an old woman was scared when i knocked on her door. The police knew I was licensed to be there but they still came out, just to tell me not to knock on her door. (I'd already been and gone from her address anyway)