A crazy naked person is definitely worth calling the cops over. I actually did this a couple years ago. I was in West Oakland and my next door neighbor was outside one morning, babbling (and occasionally yelling) about Jesus. I went out and asked him to go inside. He yelled, "Oh my God you're Jesus... ", continued babbling, jumped on top of a car, and started trying to rip the windshield wipers off. I asked him to go inside again and he pulled his pants down and started doing the helicopter. At that point, I called the cops. They showed up in about a minute and wrestled him to the ground. He fought back like crazy, trying to bite and spit. They got him cuffed after about 20 seconds. Then EMTs showed up, injected him with what I assume was haldol, and took him away. He was held for psych eval for three days. When he came back, he behaved totally fine.
The news doesn't report stories like that, where things go right. You'll only hear about the controversial cases where cops totally fuck up, either due to malice or incompetence. But almost every time, things go right.
The news doesn't report stories like that, where things go right. You'll only hear about the controversial cases where cops totally fuck up, either due to malice or incompetence. But almost every time, things go right.