A few years back, I saw a man, stop on the sidewalk in front of my neighbors house, at 2AM, sit down, remove his pants, and then walk around, trying all of her windows.
A young, single girl lived there, and this guy sure wasn't one of *her* friends, in fact he looked like a vagrant.
I immediately hit 911, and was promptly put on hold, ("your call is important to us, but all of our operators are busy, etc.,etc.") They finally answered, and said they would be right there. BTW, this is a high rape district, close enough to downtown to be risky, yet fat dumb and rich enough to be careless.
I tried the neighbor's phone......out of service.
This was looking worse and worse.
I watched the guy, and vowed that if he looked like he was getting in, I would have to do *something*, as this neighbor was my friend, and I didnt want her to get hurt.
(Her rental house had had a rape in it previously.) I was afraid to go over there, or even to yell at him through an open window, in case he was armed. I didn't want to get shot being a good neighbor. I am not a cop, I don't know how to do these things safely.
After 20 minutes of watching him fumbling with windows, the police still hadn't shown up, so I lit him up with the laser dot sight from my window.
He didnt notice it at first, so I flashed it across his eyes and even off the glass.
At the point he realized what it was, looked up and saw the AR pointed at him through the window, he took off like a scalded cat. I had no intention of shooting, unless he threatened me with a weapon.
Police finally showed up, 45 minutes later, (pizza would have gotten here faster.)
"Well, it's Saturday night, we can't be everywhere at once." And here I thought a B&E and possible attempted rape in progress had some priority!
The weird thing is, this has happened twice here to me......a few years later, with someone peeping in the outside windows of an apt. bldg.
across the alley.
Same "no-show" cops, same laser method...same outcome. This was before there were laser pointers everywhere, and I wonder if it would be as effective today. Most likely not.
A few more years later, someone in the next neighborhood down made the mistake of actually shooting the perp violating his neighbor.
This was an "in progress" rape/assault, the victim was a State Rep., and guess what? The shooter got charged. The Make My Day Law only applies to your own friggin house.
I now keep guard dogs.