With our city growing in capacity each year it's getting harder to get the cops to come in a timely manner short anything less than bodily harm or murder. Last year the neighbors and I intervened in a woman being raped in the park across the street, as the perp limped freely away (yes he had a bum leg) we had to sit and babysit the woman for forty five minutes before the cops came, then as they got out of their cars they made a mad dash back towards them leaving us asking, "hey where you going?" One of them did stay behind but it shows you that the police already have their hands full. It's not like we didn't have any sympathy for the lady it'd just not our job to do their job which they get paid to do. Most family court cases are civil cases unless there is physical abuse or death involved, police generally will not get involved in a civil matter unless called to a home on a unrelated matter and witness something themselves, depending upon the urgency of the situation determines if they put an immediate call into CPS or they make a referral for CPS to follow up on what they seen. Police will not respond if you call them and say children have been asking neighbors for food for several days saying they are hungry, you will be told to call CPS. Now if it's physical abuse that's a different matter and is consider a suspected case of physical abuse/assault and they will respond. There have been several cases here recently of parents who were investigated by CPS and court ordered to take parenting classes while maintaining custody of their child. Once they fulfilled their obligation and were no longer under CPS radar these infants died at the hands of their parents, one while sitting in a car seat for days in sweltering heat without food and water while his mom was out partying. When it comes to societies most vulnerable I've rather CPS err on the side of caution when it comes to infants, any person found neglecting an infant there shouldn't be any sympathies of a lack of parenting skills or excuses of poverty...there's way to many resources available when it comes to babies there's no allowable excuse, once they go through parenting classes and have been seen by a professional counselor to determine their capability to take care of a child, then and only then should such a fragile member of our society be allowed to return to his parent(s).