ModDog: Check on your people.
Call them. Visit when you can. Pay attention when someone who normally answers suddenly doesn’t.
Especially check on elderly relatives, people who live alone, and anyone whose health or mobility makes isolation easier. A few minutes of your time can matter more than you realize.
Do not assume someone is fine because the bills are paid, the mail is collected, or nobody has complained.
Sometimes “I haven’t heard from them lately” is enough reason to make the call.
The AI criticism, I get. But the cops are often the people who end up finding the deceased and handling the death scene.
That can mean searching the apartment or home for signs of foul play or suicide, locating medications and identification for the medical examiner and EMS, contacting people, documenting the scene, and staying there through the process.
All while the smell of decomposition fills the room and permeates your clothes.
You may not like law enforcement. You don’t have to. But somebody still has to do that job.