I am sorry for double posting, but it was early, so many people may not have been awake.
There was an incident in my home recently. My brother is very ill, the police in my area are well aware of this, 2.5 years ago he stabbed someone, and he has not been called to court yet.
Last night, my brother snapped out due to withdrawal from opiates, he cut himself, threatened to commit suicide, and exclaimed he was going to kill me, my mother, and father.
He punched my disabled, elderly mother in the leg which was extremely painful for her, she gets spasms all over her body anyway, she cried when he hit her, and my Mother doesn’t cry unless it really hurts, she had to limp over to the bed. She has a collapsed/bulging/ruptured discs, rheumatoid arthritis, neuropathy and a neurostimulator in her back which has wires that connect to her spine, if he had hit her in the right place, he could paralyze her. We called the police, told them everything that happened, my brother had taken off, the officers returned later with paperwork for my mother, they went into his room to make him get up to talk to him, looked at his wrist, one of the officers said it was very deep. He then called an ambulance, my brother refused treatment, which the officer said is his right. My mother and I tried to get it thru their head that he is dangerous and has the characteristics of a murderer, that my brother listens to his music, and fantasizes about different ways to kill us, etc. My brother also told the cops he planned on finding acid and pouring it on my face. They wouldn’t arrest him.
They said the most they could do is tell him he isn’t allowed inside the house for the night, my mother told the officer he would just sneak back in the house thru his window, so the officer went back outside to talk to my brother, and I guess he told him to keep it cool and go to bed. When they left, he went ballistic again, exclaiming how he is an informant for the police, and he can do anything he wants, breaking items, more threatening, shoving me (he scares me so I leave the room.)
Moral of the story is… I don’t think this is right, a friend of mine told me in Delaware it is the law that if there is domestic violence in the house, they HAVE to arrest him. My parents have tried kicking him out, the last time they did he gave us a “warning” by breaking a window, he also said if they do he is going to burn the house down with us in it, I know people make stupid threats all the time, but this kid is capable. My brother is 25 years old.
If anyone could please help me find information on the Delaware Statutes, point me in the right direction, or who I can call to talk to that may be able to override this small police department, please. We are worried about our lives. They did tell her she can put out a warrent, but on the paper they gave her, they put down that the victim was not injured, they said it was nothing more then offensive touching, they also noted that no drugs were involved, even though my mother and I informed them he steals medication from both my mother, and father, and he is on several anti-psychotic medications, that he does not use properly. He takes so many he can’t keep his eyes open. (Today my mother is calling his doctor to inform him of the situation)
Please, any advice would be helpful.
1 day ago – 3 days left to answer.
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They don’t care… Elsmere cops are…. I don’t want to say the word, but I think you’ll get my drift, they just don’t care. I called County, state… Attorney General, Victim assistance. No help, they say call Elsmere, The fact that they put on the paper that my mother was not injured, and no drugs were involved when I told the police he is an addict in withdrawal, concerns me. Cops never protected me…….the cops even lied on the paper they said his weapons were his hands and feet. I am calling them right now. This is so unfair, I don’t want to lose my mother.
1 day ago
The cops have been away for years he is dangerous, and diagnosed with a mental disorder. My Mother and I went up to the police station to talk to Seargent #$%*()#$ and he treated me like shit, I had talked to him before on the phone, on the phone he had this “what do you want me to do about it, on the phone he said there is the PFA, when my mother and I got there…. he gave me the dirtiest look, “I TOLD you on the phone several times about the PFA, oh, so you don’t remember? Do NOT play that game with me!” He approached me very aggressively, (knowing that an officer that was supposed to take me to the hospital smashed my face into the glass window of his car so hard, I had a blood blister on my chin for over a month, permanent scar tissue, and a fractured tooth) I backed away from him, and put my hand out and said please don’t come any closer I don’t want hurt again he said “don’t try that game with me little girl (I am 21) I wont hurt you but I will arrest you” so I walked back to the car
Thank you so much for your information…. When my mother went to the courts, they exclaimed that something is not right, because this is waaaaay beyond offensive touching because my mother is disabled, and the terroristic threatening. When my brother left, he grabbed a knife and took off, I had my German Shepherd track him down, he is currently in the crisis center at a hospital, he will probably end up in a mental institution. But this isn’t over, I am going to a higher authority because the town police in this area are very wrong….
God Bless