I'm a black doctor. My neighbors called the cops on me for listening to Biggie.

[meadowlander]

91. How do you know the neighbour didn't take that approach the last (X) times this happened?

Since we only have the one woman's story we don't know what other steps the neighbour may or may not have taken in any previous incidents, if there were any.

We also don't know:
- the race of the neighbour(s?)
- whether there were multiple complaints about this incident or only one
- whether the apartment complex had a manager at all
- how responsive the manager has been in the past and what kind of relationship the neighbour had with them
- whether the manager could be reached at all
- how long the music was playing
- how loud it was
- how long she had been living there and whether there had also been issues with previous residents. If she recently moved in, hadn't met the neighbours and the previous residents were troublemakers, the neighbours may not have realised they were calling the cops on someone new.
- what kind of relationship this woman has with the neighbours generally. They could be in the middle of a feud about something completely unrelated and not feel comfortable directly confronting each other without it escalating. Or it could have been a revenge call because she leaves her trash out too long or has loud sex or her cat craps in the neighbour's flowerpot or some other rubbish.

You know, context. Neighbours gets into beefs like this all the time in every neighbourhood everywhere in the world since the dawn of time. That's what neighbours do. Sometimes it is racially motivated and sometimes it isn't.

When someone is breaking the law (or in this case violating a noise ordinance) and you don't feel like you can cope with the problem yourself, you call the cops. That's what they're there for. When everything is working right and they are doing their job, it can deescalate a situation that could otherwise get out of hand. They are meant to be trained professionals who know how to resolve conflicts. Just because some cops are bad at their jobs doesn't mean that calling the cops, even in appropriate circumstances, is the wrong thing to do.