If you look over his posts, tcsd1236 has all but said openly, "If we come to your place looking for a problem, we're not leaving until we have one -- even if we have to create it." It's right there, between the lines.
His posts also make it very clear he is happy to trample your rights because he's afraid of being sued (even though we all know you can't sue the Police for failure to protect).
He's just one example of a pervasive problem. We can blame a lot of it on evil/stupid legislators who write laws to create crime, to force an arrest one way or another. But the LEO in the field still has discretion, if he has the courage and integrity to exercise it.
There are still many LEO's out there who take seriously that "Serve and Protect" motto, who truly consider themselves Peace Officers and whose only goal is public safety. But they become fewer in number every day. Many departments are looking for something else.
Remember the stories about the guy who always wanted to be a cop, aced the entrance exam (as one might expect of an intelligent man in his 40's, he posted the highest score ever on an exam designed for kids just off the street), then was told he was too smart to be a cop. He fought it as long as he could, but lost his legal battle.
In the incident described, there's no coercion of the wife (except by police), no effort to prevent her leaving, no screaming fight. Only an obnoxious relative who didn't belong there. I hope the wife involved has learned that calling police only makes things worse. She triggered a self-feeding system.
Police and crime/criminals, along with judges, legislators and jailors, form a symbiotic system. Police NEED crime; so do all the others who profit by it. Do you really think a speeding ticket is only about public safety?
This will not stop, until the consequences become too expensive to that system.
Brace yourselves, our society is going down.
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one *makes* them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted--and you create a nation of law-breakers--and then you cash in on the guilt."
--Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”
..."And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things
have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand....The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!"
--Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, “The Gulag Archipelago”