“Maybe you are right if there were only a couple of calls (as with the FBI), but wouldn’t you think that after receiving 39 calls about a specific person (as the Broward County Sheriff’s office did), that someone might actually realize that something is going on that’s worth looking into? “
My neighbor made over twenty calls that resulted in a deputy coming out to talk to me. Once, the deputy was ready to draw as my neighbor reported he’d caught me “looking in his little children’s” window. It wasn’t even dark yet and I’d just gotten home from work. I was still wearing a tie and formal shoes. I was able to prove I hadn’t left the house because I had full time video on all entrances. (”Little children” is statutory language that would essentially allow him to ban me from living in my house. Long story.)
I found out later, through my lawyer, that my neighbor had made numerous visits to the sheriff and filed many documents as well. For the most part, the sheriff was minimally responsive because there are so many of these nut cases. Even if there was something glaring, the agencies react slowly and that helps defend law abiding citizens from getting swatted.
We can only expect so much of our agencies. If they give us more, we might not like it. And, let’s suppose they went out and arrested this kid. What would they do with him? Somebody has to pay for, what we in Florida refer to as, “Baker-acting.” Whose budget does that come out of? And, how long can he be held? Indefinitely? Because that is what would be required to prevent him from doing harm. People don’t come out of psychological evaluation cured. No judge would allow incarceration based on a psychological evaluation. He’d be free to go in probably twenty-four to seventy two hours.
Everybody is angry because it’s a problem and problems have solutions. Well, sometimes problems don’t have solutions. Or, at least solutions people are prepared to pay for.