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Originally Posted by kane
But now you are kind of contradicting yourself by saying that you would want them to investigate. Assume that the OP is 100% correct and there was no 911 call made from his house. This means that dispatch likely screwed up or there was some kind of communication error that leads to the cop showing up at the OP's house to investigate. The OP tells the officer there was no call made. Guess what? Criminals lie. Cops get lied to all day every day and most of them assume they are being lied to all the time. So he has no way of knowing for sure that there was no call made and he isn't going to leave until he feels comfortable that everything is okay.
Maybe if he could ask a couple of questions and have a short conversation with the OP all would be cleared up and everything is good. But he wasn't getting that chance because he felt threatened by the dogs and then was threatened by the OP. Had the OP simply restrained the dogs and talked to cop this likely would have been over in a few minutes and everyone would be happy. You said the cop had no right to be there. The reality is that the cop had every right to be there if he felt he was acting on good faith and with good information. Again, if there were a woman inside being tortured and raped and the cop showed up and someone outside told him there was no call made from this house, you wouldn't just want the cop to agree with him, turn around a leave would you? You might want him to stick around and make sure that things were cool.
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This is the problem here, I suppose. If we're assuming the cop is there in good faith, and honestly believes there was a 911 call from the house in question, and the OP believes there was never a call made and the cop is not there in good faith, it's a potentially explosive incident. I guess no one (cop or OP) is right or wrong in this situation until the mistake made is investigated.
I admit, I almost never assume a law enforcement official is acting on good faith and almost always assume they are abusing and going beyond the powers they are given. I've seen countless examples of this behavior. Of course, there are countless examples of exceptional behavior that don't make the headlines.
So, we're all arguing on assumptions, and even the OP and the cop don't know who made the call for sure.