Mar 06, 2009 01:58
So, it's about 2 AM, and I awake to hear a loud slam. I live in an apartment building with a front "security" door that is on a spring and tends to slam if people don't purposefully close it quietly. I hear the noise again shortly after, and then a few more times at odd intervals. Without hearing any other types of commotion, I assume someone is going in and out, maybe drunkenly. It's loud enough to keep me up, but I expect the person will head back to bed after long.
But then the cops arrive. A regular squad car, and then they start knocking on an upstairs neighbor's door. Hammering more than knocking, shouting things like, "open up or I'm kicking it in." Kinda makes me wonder what is going on... at 2AM. I've seen cops in the area before, but always at other apartment buildings and never the one in which I reside. You could say it isn't the best of neighborhoods.
I like cops and these ones seem nice enough (I overheard them trying to get the management's phone number so stepped into the hall to give them a business card I had from their office). I guess I'm not even irked at the 2-in-the-morning part, seeing as they are just doing their job. I just can't get back to sleep until they finish so here I am typing.
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2:20
From what I've overheard, it sounds like they found a phone and broken glass outside. I think maybe they think my neighbor fell out of his window upstairs and drunkenly wandered off, so now they are doing a "wellness" check to see if he is still alive and in his apartment. It doesn't sound to me like they intend to arrest him or anything, but if he's drunk he might not get that same impression and decide to try and wait them out (or maybe he really is wandering around outside somewhere).
I was never really fond of that neighbor. Always very loud and vulgar on his phone, often slamming doors. At this point the people I feel sorry for are the cops. It can't be fun to have to deal with drunken people, to have to disturb people in the middle of the night and probably get angry glances because of it, to get called into situations with little information and be vaguely told to "sort things out", to be forced by your position to care about people whom otherwise you might despise. It reaffirms a general sentiment I have that cops should get paid more.
-LNC