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Greetings all,
So we had to make a 911 call last night at ~1AM, and I wanted to get some different perspectives on how the call went down.
I live in Mission Viejo, which contracts out police services to Orange County SD. The condos I live in is surrounded by low valleys filled with trees, and is known by local authorities to be inhabited by migrant homeless people who cooks meth on occasion. We've had to call on them before because of the fires they were starting was filling the neighborhood with acrid smoke.
Last night at ~1AM, I was woken up by a loud bang which felt like it was right outside the house, followed by a louder crash. I immediately checked all the rooms in the house, and then my roommate called 911 to report the incident and requested deputies to come and investigate. After making sure there was no one hiding near the front door, we proceeded outside to check on the neighbors. Did not find anything out of the ordinary. I did visually confirm part of the campsite used by the homeless migrants, and noticed movement within the treeline near the campsite. I chose to stay back, observe, and gather as much information as I could.
We waited for almost an hour for responders to show. Nothing. We called 911 back almost an hour later and asked for an update, and was told a unit did arrive and cleared the call.
For almost the entire time my roommate was standing in the condo parking lot waiting for cops to show. The lot itself was well lit, and we could keep eyes on the front door to the house (there is no backdoor, only the garage which faces the parking lot that we stood in). So I am 100% positive no unit ever showed, nor did any officer make contact.
So what are y'alls opinion of what happened last night? Did I overreact in calling 911? Are responders required to make contact to the caller in situations like this? Is there something I should have done differently next time?
So we had to make a 911 call last night at ~1AM, and I wanted to get some different perspectives on how the call went down.
I live in Mission Viejo, which contracts out police services to Orange County SD. The condos I live in is surrounded by low valleys filled with trees, and is known by local authorities to be inhabited by migrant homeless people who cooks meth on occasion. We've had to call on them before because of the fires they were starting was filling the neighborhood with acrid smoke.
Last night at ~1AM, I was woken up by a loud bang which felt like it was right outside the house, followed by a louder crash. I immediately checked all the rooms in the house, and then my roommate called 911 to report the incident and requested deputies to come and investigate. After making sure there was no one hiding near the front door, we proceeded outside to check on the neighbors. Did not find anything out of the ordinary. I did visually confirm part of the campsite used by the homeless migrants, and noticed movement within the treeline near the campsite. I chose to stay back, observe, and gather as much information as I could.
We waited for almost an hour for responders to show. Nothing. We called 911 back almost an hour later and asked for an update, and was told a unit did arrive and cleared the call.
For almost the entire time my roommate was standing in the condo parking lot waiting for cops to show. The lot itself was well lit, and we could keep eyes on the front door to the house (there is no backdoor, only the garage which faces the parking lot that we stood in). So I am 100% positive no unit ever showed, nor did any officer make contact.
So what are y'alls opinion of what happened last night? Did I overreact in calling 911? Are responders required to make contact to the caller in situations like this? Is there something I should have done differently next time?
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