Phoning the police if I see people fighting?

[Coolwinter]

Twice I’ve called the police if I’ve seen people fighting physically, once teenagers and once adults - I just wonder is this reasonable as a response?

Both times my partner has said I overreacted, but I don’t know if it is someone being beaten up and think, if it were my child I’d want someone to call the police. And even if they both started on each other, people can get seriously hurt?

Also I once called the police out as teenagers were fighting, but not badly, but were doing it in the middle of a fairly busy road and cars had to stop. Again told friends and they said they wouldn’t have called the police. AIBU?

No u are not being unfair like u said if it were my child I’d like someone to call police whether my child were the victim OR the instigator there should be consequences

I called 999 once when there was a woman and a man physically fighting in the street, while I was on the phone it descalated when others had physically intervened and they went off in different directions, I apologised to the operator thinking I had wasted the police's time but she said I had done the right thing to call and took as many details as possible from me.

Hmm there was two men fighting outside my old flat when I lived in a rough area, I didn’t call the police as they seen me and I was the only one around and one of the men was a drug dealer who lived in the block. Wasn’t gonna risk them starting on me. So no I wouldn’t always call them.

If it looked serious then yes. Also fights can escalate quickly and you never know these days if people are carrying a weapon.

I would and have several times. Each time I describe what is happening and leave it to the experts to decide how to respond. I'm not going to ignore something in the hope that it will be alright.

Posted too soon. It's too easy for someone to end up dead, even if by accident. (kicked, banging their head on the pavement etc) destroying several families lives.