I would not go out. Nope.
Cops arriving on the scene will not know you from the bad guy.
Stay inside till they knock on your door.
Reasonable advice, however the cops knew the call was about potential rape, I doubt they believed the woman at the window was the rapist.
I called 911 for a suspicious truck driving around the block about 2 am awhile back and told them I thought they may have been stealing materials at a house under construction across the road.
The cops came quickly but the truck was gone. I wanted to go talk to the cops so I called 911 again and asked the dispatcher to tell them where I lived and that I was coming outside. They pulled up in front of the house and I went out and didn’t get shot. No way I would have just gone out in the dark under the circumstances.
It’s certainly not bad advice. But, remember, she was a foreigner.
Everybody is a bad guy to cops these days.
That is good advice. And, God forbid I should ever need it, I will try to remember. But I can’t fault this woman. Most of us live law-abiding lives and never come into contact with crime scenes. Until I read about this story, I probably would have also approached the police car as this woman did.