About 20 years ago, when I was living in Yorktown Heights NY (in Westchester county - a pretty high end county just north of NYC), we had to call 911 once because my then wife slipped on the ice and fell when she returned from work late night.
I called and said what had happened and within a short time we had police, ambulance and a fire person show up (I guess they were all bored).
IMO that's part of the problem in US policing: The assumption is that the people are bad (in my case that I had hit my wife I guess - I was interviewed by the cops before she was taken to hospital for a checkup). I called 911 for a medical emergency, not a criminal issue so why do cops have to come and treat me like a criminal. If you think that something is wrong then you find a way to find something wrong.
I called and said what had happened and within a short time we had police, ambulance and a fire person show up (I guess they were all bored).
IMO that's part of the problem in US policing: The assumption is that the people are bad (in my case that I had hit my wife I guess - I was interviewed by the cops before she was taken to hospital for a checkup). I called 911 for a medical emergency, not a criminal issue so why do cops have to come and treat me like a criminal. If you think that something is wrong then you find a way to find something wrong.
I wrote a blog about US policing a few years ago because I feared for my son's safety: https://medium.com/@sanjiva.weerawarana/police-in-us-need-to....