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Annual Inspection 2011, Home Security & The Cops


Nothing to report on the inspection the Super replaced the heating unit filters and did the usual check for damage.  Being that I’m a borderline meticulous neat freak I keep my apt in ship-shape. :) The two employees who did the inspection were unknowingly used as guinea pigs to test out my stop-motion video camera and it captured everything.  Since the case of someone entering my apt/unit was never solved and my neighbor’s window kicked in I decided to hook-up home security.  Anybody that invades my space will be in deep trouble and if necessary I’ll go to the police.  
Here is some trivia for staff and tenants: in urban society once you’re branded a "cop caller" there's a good chance you’ll be ostracized from the community.  The police are not babysitters we as Native adults should be able to resolve our own petty problems/disputes without involving the police unless for legitimate reasons.
Ie: It still angers me when I think about what happened last year.  We had a Thanksgiving dinner for all tenants in the community room when tenant Danny Joseph arrived, for personal reasons Ingrid called the cops on him and of course the Director was there and she did fuck all.  Danny a troubled elderly man who wanted to join the festivities, in the end he was forced to sit in his unit/apt alone and probably hungry on Thanksgiving.  Ingrid & Janis should be ashamed of themselves and I know for a fact my fellow tenants were pissed off.  This was our dinner we should have had a democratic vote among the tenants to decide if Danny can join us or not, I could tell the female police officer was bewildered on why she’s there. It’s good thing I arrived late for the dinner because sparks would be flying if I saw what went down. 

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