In a different situation, where I was pretty sure that someone in the neighbouring apartment had gotten thrown against the wall where my bed was, along with a lot of shouting and swearing and someone saying zie wished zie was dead, I didn't call the police at the time. But I went the next morning to alert the apartment office (this was a co-op). It turned out that my neighbour the lease-holder in a wheelchair wasn't in fact trapped in the apartment with these crazy people -- she had sublet to them while in the hospital, and my information helped the office to intervene.
So it turned out that ratting them out was good. But telling the office might have made things worse in that whoever was a victim might also become homeless.
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Date: 2006-09-17 01:34 am (UTC)In a different situation, where I was pretty sure that someone in the neighbouring apartment had gotten thrown against the wall where my bed was, along with a lot of shouting and swearing and someone saying zie wished zie was dead, I didn't call the police at the time. But I went the next morning to alert the apartment office (this was a co-op). It turned out that my neighbour the lease-holder in a wheelchair wasn't in fact trapped in the apartment with these crazy people -- she had sublet to them while in the hospital, and my information helped the office to intervene.
So it turned out that ratting them out was good. But telling the office might have made things worse in that whoever was a victim might also become homeless.