QUESTION
public neighbor nuisance in massachusettes
Asked on Aug 21st, 2013 on General Practice - Massachusetts
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My neighbor has called the cops pn is 4 times on the 5 months weve lived here for no reason. The last straw was she called the cops on is because someone elses kid kicked their ball in her yard. She has targeted us because of things the previous tennants have done. My husband is disabled,with 1 to 3 yrs left to live, and we just want it in peace. Piblic nuisance laws are hard to enforce, is it worth a shot?
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Why go out of your way to file a Private Nuisance action and bear such costs and worry about how to prove its elements, when this is nothing more than abuse of police resources.
It appears that the 4 times the Police were called resulted in finding of no crime comitted or laws broken and no reports were ever generated. The police have to respond when a call comes in, unless in their discretion and supported by their knowledge of facts on the ground, they deem responding as unnecessary. So just as you explain above, you can remind the responding officers about your husband's situation, in such a way for them to realize that this is not only disturbing the "quiet enjoyment" one is entitled to in their home but more importantly it amounts to abuse of police resources (i.e. one can be in real need of police while the police are occupied with this) also the fact that the previous 4 calls resulted in finding of no wrongdoing.
Answered on Aug 25th, 2013 at 1:43 AM