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“Calling the Cops Made It Worse”
“Sometimes the solution feels more dangerous than the problem.”
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SUMMARY - “Calling the Cops Made It Worse”

A woman calls 911 because her brother is having a mental health crisis, hoping for help - and police arrive with weapons drawn, escalate the situation, and her brother ends up injured or dead or in jail instead of in treatment, and she will never call again. A domestic violence victim reaches out for protection, and the responding officers arrest both parties, or dismiss her report, or leave her in more danger than before she called, and she tells other women not to bother.

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