You must live a very insulated lifestyle to think a majority of cops are interested in dealing with what can be immediately filed away as a civil matter.
Let ME ask you some leading questions since you're a lawyer.
Do you think because you practice law you are the final authority on all legal matters?
Have you ever served in a law enforcement capacity?
Let me also ask some open ended questions
When you practice law do you treat every single clients situation the same? Because you are extrapolating that this guys grandson that he clearly described as a bum would go through the trouble of any of this stuff and you are also making a grand reach that any attorney in the cobb area would even take a case like this given how weak both sides of the situation is.
A cop can "hear" anything but that doesn't mean that would give a LEO probable cause to execute an arrest. The only way that it would lead to that is if the landlord ran his mouth thinking the cop would be on his side. If the landlord said nothing; there's nothing to conclude and definitely not enough to arrest. It's interesting that you're a lawyer but fail to mention this detail consistently during the postings. Anyone can tell a cop anything but in my time as a LEO I couldn't execute an arrest based on hearsay unless the subject of the hearsay ran their mouth enough for me to reasonably conclude that there might be merit to the accusation. If they said nothing to me; then I'd have nothing. The smarter criminals practiced this.
Also again; this highlights your lack of knowledge of law enforcement. 99% of LEO's are definitely disinterested in dealing with a bratty grandchild being put out by a grandpa from a criminal standpoint. If you somehow get the one rookie trying to get a collar then that's just extraordinarily bad luck. But again; see point above. Don't say anything and it stays a civil matter.
But what do I know. I didn't work in a cushy office being a pencil pusher all day to armchair quarterback. I only have peasant field experience to add.
