Do you really think the person that complained said there was a perfectly legal game taking place? Don’t you think the police have and obligation to investigate a report of illegal activity taking place? I know it is easy to make decisions after all the facts have been obtained, but my guess is, they didn’t have the facts you do now.
What idiot would think a mahjong game played by some elderly women constitutes illegal activity?
Again, a good journalist would find out who the "troublemaker" is and find out their connection to the mayor or police commissioner.
The gratuitous "Jack Booted Thugs" commentary aside... cops simply don't have the time or inclination for this sort of BS unless they're getting heat from up top.
What a great story it would be if the "troublemaker" was a political donor to the mayor's campaign...
Lazy journalism.
Read SCOTUS decisions, police have no obligation to respond to any call. Ever.
The estimate of just Federal statutes that are criminal is between 3,600 and 4,500. Add in the regulatory “laws” and that number balloons to over 300,000. As for the number of individual state laws and local laws, who the Hell knows. It has been claimed that everyone, no matter who you are and how “pure” you are, violates at least three laws per day that could send them to the pokey. The real issue is far too many laws for nearly everything, a law enforcement culture that uses these myriad laws to control those it wishes to control and the real effort to cow and scare the citizenry into blind and stupid docile obedience. It is what Rand wrote of in Atlas Shrugged. It is a situation that conservatives should be very angry about.