“don’t like the police? next time you get robbed call a hippy”
That was actually on a billboard in the city we moved to in 1969. I still live here.
It would probably be every bit as effective to call a hippy, tbh. Cops just show up and take a report.
The one time in my life I needed to call the cops they took 45 minutes to show up 2 blocks from their HQ. The perp, who I caught in the act, had long fled and they never caught him. This was at like 2:30am too, so it wasn’t exactly the busiest time of day for them.
I remember that one.
It was very popular within the law enforcement community.