Police want to do the least amount of work possible. The usual line is that it is a civil matter and not something the police can handle. An exmaple is that I was told that knowingly writing a check on a closed account was in fact no fraud but a civil matter.
Government ‘workers’ want to do the least amount of work possible. Unless it increases their power...................
You are correct. We were told by the sheriff’s deputy that our “neighbor” trespassing on our lot and deliberately and with malice destroying our landscape beds and borders was really a “civil matter”, then told us to get a lawyer. When in fact trespass is a criminal act under our state’s law. Had it up to here with these phony pension-building cops.