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I get really tired of dealing with people like that woman.  Okay, I can see her being startled, scared, etc. at the time of the incident.  However, it's when everything has been explained to her and she demands that the cops make everyone else play by her rules is where she loses me.  I don't know how many goddamn calls I've taken where the complainant doesn't like what someone else is doing and wants the police to put a stop to it, even though it's not illegal.  When I tell them there has not been a crime committed, they say 'can't you just go talk to them and ask them to stop?'.  Let's see- I just told you that the behavior you find upsetting isn't illegal, and now you want me to go over and use the color of my authority to try and get them to stop anyway, just because you don't agree with what they're doing?  Ahh, I don't think so.  People have forgotten that they don't have a constitutional right to not be offended or have others not do anything that they don't agree with, and they like to use the police as a club to try and make everyone else do things their way.  I'm bloody sick of it.  Life is risky, get over it.  Not everyone thinks the way you do- get over that, too.  I've gotten more IA complaints for refusing to be someone's personal Gestapo agent than I ever have for things like excessive use of force.

Okay, rant mode off!