Yeah totally different sound profile, a gunshot versus a whisper. And they were designed with that in mind, materially helping police without full-on police state.

But like a lot of the time nobody goes, nobody cares. Depends on the murder...who and where, and like the budget, if the budget just got slashed...

Tangent. So that's when the apathy inescapably sets in for police departments susceptible to it, when they want nothing more than do their jobs but just can't get the resources to actually do their jobs. Have to be more selective, do something similar to doing their jobs but not as expensive. Pretend to do it, answer the phone but get victims off the phone unless the case is stereotypical, bounce people to a different state service. Or recently when I was pressing charges for being assaulted here in Santiago, first assault I actually had minor wounds in so first time I could press charges. Fought back obviously, fight back every time.

So the printer was low on toner, and my form looked blurry and shitty. Still legible though, just a legal document of inferior worth, as evidence for instance or as collateral for picking up on the case later, because of low production values. I told him a company would have a little closet stocked up with more toner things--all office supplies--so they could print all the forms they needed to print. The policeman said "yeah that's how it should be, that's the dream."

Like it was a fantasy to the extent he couldn't articulate what ought to be done about it. In the meantime, they do what the can. But they can't do what they can't do.

Another example was a rock I picked up after a riot, like 12 ounces, weighed as much as a hammer, obviously for stoning people. Picked it up at 22:16 hour when things cooled down and the show's over. Obviously the intention was to kill policemen. Brain damage. You could tell from the weight, and actually it was too heavy for its purpose, it's like a shot put, evidently malicious. And it had no business where I found it, piece of concrete specifically chiseled in order to stone people with. I got stoned in March, the stoners were aiming for police on motorcycles. Didn't get hit, but the intention was there, I was considered pro-police.

And in fact I am pro-police, pro-carabinero, so going back to that rock, I told a policeman I collected it, wanted to present it to them so they could do detective work. It was evidence of something. At the very least I got it off the street, apart from it there's no rocks there it was conspicuous. I don't know whether to post a photograph, I wish the police photographed it, did good old-fashioned detective work on who made it, with what type of chuzo (like a pick), whatever. The policeman (carabinero) said yeah...you know we're uh not the right station for forensics, you'd have to take it to another...Which other I asked...no another one. And for him I have no blame, absolutely none. These men and women are completely overwhelmed. I talked to them about it right after the assault, said "yeah everyone's insulting you, the screams, the graffiti, they say..." then struggling at how to express what I was talking about without actually spelling it out. I then saw a graffiti of what I was referring to on the wall across the street and said "There it is! You can read it for yourself!" Like people think it's so funny to insult the people who protect them. Haha, great joke, classic.

Same in California, so so many activists undermining them, like they can hardly do anything else for the benefit of society other than emasculating police. Any chance they undermine a gangster? Take a picture of a crime in progress but of the criminal, not the cops making the arrest but the actual assault or burglary or robbery?

So back to that assault, it was the stupidest shit, if the assaulter had been in a green uniform forty of the hundred witnesses would have filmed him swing at me, but because instead he took his shirt off as an escalation and obviously was not police, talked very shitty as part of the intimidation like making a show of how uneducated he was by his own volition, and made death threats like an ipso facto criminal, the witnesses respected him more, then yeah they were afraid of him. And nobody filmed it.

I looked for film evidence, photography even, nothing. Everyone was out of battery. It was a super drawn-out conflict, with like five escalations to which I didn't back down, before the punches and kicks. Like three bouts. It was a good clean fight, but oh well, I guess everyone had Apple iPhone 5S's like me whose batteries crap out weirdly, evidently not truly random.

Two witnesses though, and I thank them. A third witness wimped out on testifying.

Like he wanted best of both worlds, you see, protection from police (and men like me who fight back) against criminals, but at the same time bother criminals the least so they can be their favorite or least bullied. Suck up to criminals. That's the attitude. That's what's up.