You know what else you hear about in the media?....lots of people getting killed intervening in other people's affairs. That happens more frequently then some of these high profile other cases. If you called the police and asked for a ambulance for someone outside acting mentally off balance and the dispatcher ask you if that person appears to have any weapons and you know they are out there swinging a pipe and you lie that's filing a false police report. That's just for starts, if a ambulance driver gets hurt by being bashed in the head with the pipe to the point they can't work anymore their family can sue you into oblivion. Studies have also shown that when people don't call the police, like the illegal immigrant communities who fear deportation, family abuse and crime rise in those areas. Even if you didn't call the police and called other agencies they are going to tell you to call the police because they can't get involved unless the people want help or are forced to get help, that force usually comes via going to court after being arrested. Even if you did live in close quarters with other tenants or neighbors it would depend on how many parties they have...is it every weekend or is it once in awhile. What happens if you talk to them and they ignore you? Do you even want to try and attempt to talk to them so they can peg you for sure if you had to call the cops or even if another neighbor does it? I can sit here and hear gun shots probably at least once every couple months, maybe at times more often....and you think I want to go out and see what's going on and talk to someone about it?....I don't think so. I am not going to share my feelings with the neighbors either....who knows what families have little gang bangers with big ears listening...I don't want my house shot up in a drive by to scare me into silence. Get real. It's the cops who choose to put their lives on the line, they get paid for that, it's not in my job description as a neighbor.