Neighbors with domestic violence issues

[Rembrandt Brown]

Have you ever intervened?

I once called the police on a neighbor because I heard the woman creaming at the man telling him not to hit her again... Months later, he was back in the house, they had an incident where she called the police and a whole bunch of them were there. He was arrested-- Guess who's back?

When I called, I felt bad for not keeping more of an eye out but I doubt there's anything I could have done. Part of me just wants to say she's an adult and responsible for her own choices. But she might be staying for the kids and even if she's responsible for that, the kids aren't...

 

[crazyace718]

Leave that shit alone. If you intervene and end up getting into it with the guy she will gladly testify on his behalf or tell you to mind you business. She's grown and knows what she's willing to deal with.

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

Leave that shit alone. If you intervene and end up getting into it with the guy she will gladly testify on his behalf or tell you to mind you business. She's grown and knows what she's willing to deal with.

Perhaps there is a way to deal with it short of calling the police that does not entail "getting into it with the guy"?

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

Neighbor James Smith told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that he was sorry he’d ever called police. “I’m shaken. I’m mad. I’m upset. And I feel it’s partly my fault,” he told the newspaper. “If I had never dialed the police department, she’d still be alive.”

 

[bububang]

Leave it alone. You see the police were already called before, and he came back. You're wasting your time.

Then if you happen to get in the midst of whatever they got goin on, dude gon be mad then you'll have problems with him ON TOP of the fact that even if the police do remove him from the vicinity, the broad'll have him back over there sooner or later.

Then you dont know the details of whats exactly goin on. Shit could be a mess, I'd just leave it alone.

 

[marcvoi]

Have you ever intervened?

I once called the police on a neighbor because I heard the woman creaming at the man telling him not to hit her again... Months later, he was back in the house, they had an incident where she called the police and a whole bunch of them were there. He was arrested-- Guess who's back?

When I called, I felt bad for not keeping more of an eye out but I doubt there's anything I could have done. Part of me just wants to say she's an adult and responsible for her own choices. But she might be staying for the kids and even if she's responsible for that, the kids aren't...

You can give annoymous phone call.
You did the right thing because imagine you had a sister living far from home with her husband and her neighbor called the cops on dude. You would have been grateful ..also you have done your part as a someone who is looking for a person in need regardless of the outcome .

 

[big enos burrnet]

im seeing this more often on my block neighbors come and go but toxic relationships are common now days...i just sit back and watch and learn......

 

[phanatic]

Leave that shit alone. If you intervene and end up getting into it with the guy she will gladly testify on his behalf or tell you to mind you business. She's grown and knows what she's willing to deal with.

Yep. She's obviously one of these people that have toxic relationships with an undercurrent of "but I love him". I've known men and women that were involved in these types of relationships and after trying to help twice, I no longer waste my time trying to break the brainwash.