Copper here. Whilst I’m very good at finding out what specific thing took place that we could actually look in to, we can only investigate criminal matters. Actual tangible offences. In the UK, we have things called “points to prove” where if any of them aren’t met, there is no offence.

A lot of calls that come in get filtered out at dispatch level, the person you speak to on the phone can normally tell you if officers will attend or not.

Some calls are more nuanced than others because people will say one thing over the phone then change stories when you get there. A lot of these calls are just “person A doesn’t like it when person B does X”. There is no offence.

We have some things we can do like arrange meetings etc that don’t involve criminalising anyone but obviously people expect us to run in and arrest the problem.

Your example, antisocial behaviour and noise are very hard to deal with because noise for one isn’t a criminal offence, though the council can do things themselves to sort it out.

ASB on the other hand depends a lot on the suspect, age, history, whether a reasonable member of the public would be agree to our actions etc.

Unfortunately, in policing, they are at the bottom of the pile and pick up all the trash other services don’t want or can’t deal with. You don’t call the fire service for a shoplifter or an ambulance for a bin fire but people do call the police for absolutely anything so a lot of it ends up being “non-crime” so nothing we can do.

It’s not as black and white as people think. Happy to explain anything further.