Have you ever seen someone being robbed or assaulted?

No. Not since Junior high school. I’ve never seen someone robbed. Just assaulted. I intervened wherever I could.

I’ve seen assaults on several occasions. I don’t remember seeing robberies, though I’ve been pick pocketed and stolen from. Oh, and ticketed by police (legalized highway robbery), and “fined on the spot” by foreign thugs pretending(?) to be police.

Yep, a few times.

If someone where to get robbed I would call 911. I have not seen people get robbed outside of TV. But carrying a gun can come in handy when you are getting robed.

Short answer, no. Slightly longer answer…Upstairs neighbor, female, 19 or 20, had a boyfriend who had a habit of beating her up. Other neighbor and I offered support and called police at least 8 times.

One time police arrived to find boyfriend sitting on her and his hand attempting to go down into her throat to choke her and shut her up. He had punched her in the stomach numerous times in addition to other abuse; thought her unborn child wasn’t his.

Arrested him, got her to the hospital. Docs said her pulse and bp were extremely low and she was near death. Pressing charges was taken out of her hands by police…he’s in prison for a very long time for attempted murder.

I was only very peripherally involved but the whole situation with her and him was so scary and would hype me up every time. He was a jock in high school – BMOC. I ran into him in the entryway once and was scared that he would know I’d called the police a few times because he’d seen her with me and another neighbor.

My wife and I came across a woman being assaulted in a hotel parking lot. We intervened and stopped him from hitting her, and then it became a whole big thing because the hotel manager had called the police in the meantime.

So happy you guys were able to stop those monsters!

Many, many times, but it hasn’t happened in a long while since I moved away from the ghetto and I don’t see my family.

Countless times…
It’s a sad symptom of the diseased state of humanity.

It’s really frustrating too. I’m a former LEO, and such things are precisely why I decided to leave the profession. It’s no fun intervening in crime. I wouldn’t recommend that civilians try to help. Aside from contacting appropriate law enforcement, or medical professionals, if required.

@MrGrimm888 This may sound corny, but thank you for your service! I know law enforcement can get a bad rap and sometimes may deserve it but a few bad apples should not spoil the whole basket. I know there are good ones out there too and I would not want their jobs. Hats off to the good ones!

^I appreciate your support. But. I was just trying to make a living. I actually have a lot of negative opinions on the US “justice” system. I probably hold the record for least arrests. I was not a police officer. I was a SLED officer. I mainly worked in conjunction with narcotics, and ended up spending most of my time dealing with domestic violence. Poverty is the common cause for most “crime.”
When you are trying to investigate drug trafficking, you run across a lot of men beating women to death, and then you have to switch gears. I wasn’t of great use to narcotics units, because I always broke off of my main job, when I heard a woman screaming. I got myself into plenty of bad situations, because I never waited for help and I didn’t carry, unless I was ordered to. So. I spent most of my time fighting people all fucking night, in cheap motels, or apartments.

Then. Later in life,I ended up working for a private company as a SLED officer, doing executive protection, or heading security at large venues, like concerts, events, etc. In many cases, I was essentially a bouncer, with a badge.

And YES. It’s easy to get a bad rap. I can’t speak for all videos out there, where a LEO seems to be crossing the line, but it’s typically in reaction to something extreme that happened first but wasn’t recorded. That’s one reason I love body cams.

As far as getting assaulted/robbed. One house I lived in, was broken into twice, in three years, and large groups of people used to wander around the streets with guns literally in their hands.

In my last place, I was mugged. Well. It was maybe close to three years ago. I was drunk, and walking to the corner store for cigarettes at like 3AM when I was approached by a man from the darkness, by a skatepark. He asked me for a cigarette. I told him I didn’t have one, but he could walk with me to the store and I would throw him a few smokes, when I got a pack. He then said he would rather have money, which I didn’t have (just my card,) and wouldn’t have given him anyway… I guess he didn’t like that response, because he smashed me in my left temple area, with something like a piece of wood, or rings on his hand. Couldn’t tell, or see it coming because it was pitch black outside. Looking back, I should have been more ready for a possible attack. But. I had so much size on him, I wasn’t too concerned. As he kept bludgeoning me I perked up, grabbed his shirt around his chest/neck, twisted it and pulled him close, and punched him a few times. I got one good one in, after some glances, and he went limp. As he began falling I still had his shirt, and landed hard and clean on his face again. (Yeah… It was a dirty move, because he was already done. But fuck him. He attacked me…)
He spun out of my grip and rolled into the nearby ditch. He didn’t move. I just stood for a moment, still surprised at what just happened. Then. I started walking down into the ditch, unsure of my next move. As I was just about to reach down to him, he snapped up, and ran off. He was fast. I’m not. But. He was running like he was injured.
He disappeared into a dark boat storage lot close by. I didn’t follow.
I continued to the store. Got my pack of American Spirits, and a tall bottle of Mickey’s. The clerk asked about my face. I then realized that I was bleeding from my eyebrow/temple.
I didn’t see the guy on the way back. Half the reason I bought the beer was to break it on his head if we bammed again.
I decided to call the cops. I wasn’t a LEO anymore, and I thought the guy might be badly hurt, so I wanted to get it on record. EMS wanted me to go to the ER. I didn’t have insurance, so, I didn’t bother. Gorilla glued my gashed temple (wasn’t the first time,) and talked with the local cops. Their opinion was, they were glad that I likely badly hurt the man. I couldn’t give much of a description, because it was so dark. I just told them that he probably was messed up, on the left side of his face. The cuts on two of my knuckles suggested that he got some free dental work…

So. That’s a keyhole glimpse into society. A drunk guy, and a crackhead guy, beating each other in the dark streets…Not that unusual…

Life, it turns out, isn’t what 80’s movies, and Disney trained me for…