I tried to stop someone who stole from me. He then attempted to actually kill me. When the cops came they he admitted that he was trying to kim me, but that was because he was "in fear of his life". I had to admit to them that I was prepared to do what I needed to get back what was mine. At that point they told me to I could sue him, but if that if anything was going to happen they were going to arrest me for attempted assualt. The whole system is pretty screwed up.

Forget getting pierce county sherrif to come. Out of probably 15 calls, they came twice for on going situations. From drive bys, guns being pulled, thefts, assualts and other things,they generally don't bother coming. From what I can gather, unless they get multiple calls, forget it. I can't count the thousands of dollars we have lots over the years and never got any response. I actually had an employ sign their name to several thousand dollars of my checks and cash them. The sheriff responded by stating they didn't have time to prosecute fraud.
Last time I called to send in a report they made me wait over 8 hours to have a deputy hand me a form and leave. Of course, they refused to allow me to simply pick up a form. Its all a joke.

Of course, I have had a great response with them regarding the horrible offense of not wearing a seat belt. Twice in the last year within 100 feet of pulling out of my driveway.

Police are becoming a lot like hatcheries. They only seem to exist for the purpose of self preservation. Look at king county, a couple years ago they threw out thousands of warrants for car thefts and other offenses because it cost too much and was too hard to enforce them. Then, of course, they put out a full force offensive to track down people who haven't paid their parking tickets.