I would suspect that very few people who weren’t cops would go through the trouble of acquiring the uniforms, badges, patrol car, and look of scumbag entitlement of cops just to rob your place at 5am.
Surprisingly, there is a rational set of procedures one can safely perform whenever someone knocks on their door. These work even if you own a gun and it’s 5am.
Or you could go a different route and invite them into a dark house, skulk about in the shadows and blast death metal from some unseen stereo.
Calling 911 is essentially the same procedure you use to verify potential phishing emails – never follow the link offered in the email from your “bank”/open the door for the “police” – unless you initiated the conversation by going to your bank’s website directly to verify the claims of the email/called 911 to verify the claims of the people at the door.
Oh, I sold all that stuff years ago.
I don’t think I would call 911 unless something seemed sketchy. I guess I’m just not willing to tie up an emergency line for some nurse that broke down at 5am on her way home from work or something. Luckily with almost everyone having a cell phone the likelihood of someone needing your phone or help is very low.
Bolding mine. I’m sorry that your experiences with police have been so negative.
If I lived more rural but ------- in the inner city and not having relatives close who don’t have keys of their own and sense enough to call first. And with my neighbors and all. I’m at least going to dial 91 and put on the porch light before I so much as touch the curtains or doornob. I keep a phone with a long cord just inside the livingroom for that reason - odd things coming on/from my porch at odd times. (Mostly drunks – but just in case).
Burglars might knock, but they don’t mean you harm (specifically) as they expect you not to be home. That’s the definition of burglary vs. robbery/HI.
Hypothetically, I wouldn’t brandish in the first place. If I had to use a firearm, they wouldn’t know it first.
Explains his existence or his presence?