We can never truly know what the future holds. Pattern recognition like statistics can tell us what is likely to happen, but it is never guaranteed. So as part of that, we can also never know how people will react to a given situation, either.
The point of this is simple: you can do the right thing and still have bad things happen as a result. Reporting a crime to the police is a good thing. If it just so happens that you reported a crime that a police officer was part of, then it was a bad thing.
I hate it when characters make incredibly moronic decisions in a story. And what bothers me the most is when an entire story is predicated on characters being stupid. Some people say that if characters always did the smart thing, there would be no drama, but I say that they can make the right or smart choices all day long, but that doesn't mean it can't turn around and bite then in the butt. All the same shock and intrigue can be created without one stupid decision being made.
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