For the first time in my life I had to call some cops, to ask them to step and issue a noise violation. It is nearly 11pm, my family had received the most terrible news that day, and I was on hour 60 of being awake. After what has been the absolute most insane emotional, physical and mental rollercoaster of my life, I finally was drifting into sweet slumber the music began. I tried to fall asleep despite it, but it was no use. This neighbor has been loud before and most times I can ignore it, and sleep through, but this insomnia has a grip on me that I have seen in years.
I went down and knocked on his door and was meet with "WHY YOU POUNDING ON MY Door and man aggressive stepping out. I asked him please I have not slept in two days and I cannot sleep with you music on. He said it sound like I had a personal problem and he slammed he door in my face. The music was turned up instead of down, and Hexbear… I cracked. I am a transwoman living alone, I have been on HRT long enough that my muscle density is gone. I have low ciswoman levels of estrogen in my blood. And this man has menaced me before pounding on my door to accuse me of calling the cops on them on a previous time they were loud, when I had not. They said that I had better not EVER call the cops on him
I had to call 911 and ask them to issue a sound violation. I talked to the cops to give a statement, because frankly, this man scares me. He 6 foot something, towers above my 5"9’ seems to always a baclava, when not in his home and is ripped.
And now adrenal is pumping through me and I may be to scared to sleep. I don’t want the hallucinations Hexbear, these insomnia waking nightmares again.
Oh god.
Edit: I got like 4 hours of sleep. It’s not enough, but it’s something.
Nah. It sucks and acab etc. etc. but there have been times where I have had to call the cops.
We don’t have community policing which is capable of supplanting the police force nor a police force under the dictatorship of the proletariat and, until we do, unfortunately there are going to be situations that require police intervention. That’s just the nature of the grim reality that we live in today.
I’d recommend to people to use the non-emergency line in these sorts of situations - most states/countries have them, if you are reading this comment and you aren’t sure if you’ve got one for your region you should take a quick look now to find out - and it’s a good way to avoid putting additional demand on emergency services in situations that do not require an immediate response.
If your neighbour was a reasonable person then it wouldn’t have needed to get to this point. But that’s outside of your sphere of influence and so you shouldn’t be taking on a degree of responsibility which is not commensurate with your level of control.