Quote Originally Posted by Ruiner
Yes, they are, but not always in the timely fashion that you may want. That may or may not be in their control, but cops can't be everywhere at once. Sometimes you have to "protect" your own stuff w/o the benefit of the cops being there.
Exactly,
Just before Thanksgiving, Jenn and I were at O'Charley
s and we overheard a conversation going on at the bar. Apparently this guy came in and sat down at the bar and was already very drunk, but he ordered some food. After he ate, he tried to get more alcohol, but the bartender would not serve him. Guy gets up and walks out. Well, they get the manager and what not to go get him to come back in to pay. By this time they had already called Gwinnett co. police. We were there for about another 15min and the cops still had not come and the guy was leaving the parking lot. Still no cops. After we were done eating, we saw the guy in a parking lot across the street so we called the cops and told them where he was. More then 20 minutes went by before the cops finally showed up. Man got arrested for public drunkenness...very luck not to get a DUI (which he should have).

Lesson? took the cops ~45min to respond to a person who was getting into a car very drunk and driving away.