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Author	alba_Phenom
Comment	I can not stress the importance of cameras enough, I'm a straight male with a family and have been dealing with similar issues with a deranged female neighbour for 2 years and I can sympathise with just how absolutely useless the Scottish Police are when it comes to dealing with this kind of thing. You soon realise that almost nothing neighbours do towards you or your family is illegal, or is usually borderline illegal but not enough that the cops will be able to make something stick. The advice is always the same "just record everything, just keep reporting everything, make a spreadsheet and take down incident report numbers, etc etc etc"... you mentioned waiting 5 hours, we've waited 3-4 days for cops to come out despite this bampot having bail conditions in place. The only way we were able to get any kind of action on this was when we had blatant abuse from her on a security camera we stuck in the front window. This bitch has stopped short of physical assault, she wouldn't dare with me but she's threatened my partner on several occasions but it sounds like this woman has clearly physically assaulted you. If you had this on camera, she'd be toast, assuming you have been reporting all her other behaviour. Apparently we've heard that cops required more concrete evidence but a Judge will take into account testimony, their intuition on the situation and previous reports... in other words, her claim of you being in her way probably wouldn't make a difference to a Judge and he'd be harsher on her for trying to take the piss out of the Court with claims like that. Again, cameras, record everything, report everything... get in touch with your Local Councillor who can make calls on her, if you have two neighbours on the street (inc you) willling to complain then they can possibly get her out of there... although you soon realise that most people want nothing to do with this drama unless they're directly affected. Our Councillor has been far more proactive than the cops, they have been pretty great and call in every week to check how things are. Finally, if you feel the cops aren't doing enough or are not acting on legit crimes being committed, you can put in official complaints but as you probably well know, it's a Catch 22 because you want to keep them on your side.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/148oppb/physically_assaulted_by_homophobic_neighbour/jo7ru6h/
Created	Thu 15th Jun 2023 12:48pm
Status	normal ()

I can not stress the importance of cameras enough, I'm a straight male with a family and have been dealing with similar issues with a deranged female neighbour for 2 years and I can sympathise with just how absolutely useless the Scottish Police are when it comes to dealing with this kind of thing.

You soon realise that almost nothing neighbours do towards you or your family is illegal, or is usually borderline illegal but not enough that the cops will be able to make something stick. The advice is always the same "just record everything, just keep reporting everything, make a spreadsheet and take down incident report numbers, etc etc etc"... you mentioned waiting 5 hours, we've waited 3-4 days for cops to come out despite this bampot having bail conditions in place.

The only way we were able to get any kind of action on this was when we had blatant abuse from her on a security camera we stuck in the front window.

This bitch has stopped short of physical assault, she wouldn't dare with me but she's threatened my partner on several occasions but it sounds like this woman has clearly physically assaulted you. If you had this on camera, she'd be toast, assuming you have been reporting all her other behaviour. Apparently we've heard that cops required more concrete evidence but a Judge will take into account testimony, their intuition on the situation and previous reports... in other words, her claim of you being in her way probably wouldn't make a difference to a Judge and he'd be harsher on her for trying to take the piss out of the Court with claims like that.

Again, cameras, record everything, report everything... get in touch with your Local Councillor who can make calls on her, if you have two neighbours on the street (inc you) willling to complain then they can possibly get her out of there... although you soon realise that most people want nothing to do with this drama unless they're directly affected. Our Councillor has been far more proactive than the cops, they have been pretty great and call in every week to check how things are.

Finally, if you feel the cops aren't doing enough or are not acting on legit crimes being committed, you can put in official complaints but as you probably well know, it's a Catch 22 because you want to keep them on your side.