I have written previously about the extremely strange phenomenon that happens in many parts of the United States, and that's how government officials and law enforcement officers refuse to do anything to illegal squatters, in other words, people who have invaded an unoccupied house and are living there illegally, without paying rent or anything.
In the vast, vast majority of other countries (particularly the free democratic ones), such people would be removed and arrested by police probably within the hour. Not in many parts of the United States, though. Because of some extremely strange contrived set of laws, it appears that city officials and the police forces can't legally do anything to squatters without a court order, and even more strangely, getting that court order seems extremely difficult.
There are documented cases of home owners trying for years to get rid of illegal squatters in their premises, without success. The police will do nothing about them, the city official will do nothing about them, and for the most insane strange reasons even courts of justice will do nothing about them. Nothing that the owner does helps. In fact, and in an incredibly perverse twist of "justice", if the owner were to do something about the squatters himself, it would be him who gets arrested and thrown to jail. And this can literally go on for years and years, and there are many examples of this.
In some states homeowners are legally allowed to defend their private property with firearms, and in some cases in those states some victims of this have done exactly that: They have gathered a group of friends, waited for the squatters to leave the house, broken in (because most often squatters will change the locks), thrown all of the squatter's stuff out, and then camped in the house with shotguns and rifles, stopping the squatters from entering. Ironically, the exact same legal loopholes that allow squatters to stay in the house allows the owner to do the same thing, especially if there's nothing owned by the squatters inside the premises. And in these states defending one's home with firearms is legal, so they can get their homes back in this manner. So, in a somewhat weird twist of irony, in the same way that the cops will do nothing to squatters, they will likewise do nothing when the situation gets "reversed" and now it's the actual homeowner who is "squatting" in his own house, stopping the illegal squatters from entering.
That's not the case in most states where that's not legal, though. In a complete perversion of justice, in those states illegal squatters have literally more rights than the legal owners of the house. It's just incredible.
And it's not just some private home owners who face this problem. Even major banks face the exact same problem. Even multi-billion-dollar banks with their armies of lawyers in many states can't do anything about squatters illegally living in homes owned by these banks. Even a bank, with all of its influence and lawyers, can't compel police officers to do the right thing. Which is just incredible.
And the thing is, and this not restricted to some backwater rural areas where officials are corrupt and don't care. It can even happen in the richest parts of the country!
Indeed, there are documented cases of squatters invading, get this, some of the most expensive hundred-million-dollar mansions in the richest parts of Los Angeles (ie. where all the celebrities, actors, and multi-million dollar CEOs live), living there for months on end, organizing extravagant pool parties and so on... in mansions that they don't own nor have any legal access to, which they haven't paid a single penny for, and which they illegally broke into.
And, incredibly, even in Los Angeles, even in the richest neighborhoods, the legal owners of these hundred-million-dollar mansions can't do anything about it. The cops will not do anything, the authorities will not do anything, the courts will not do anything. Not even when the actual owners can afford literally the best lawyers in the entire world.
And, incredibly, if the legal owners were to "invade" their own property back and throw the squatters out, it would be them who get arrested! And in California it's not even legal to defend your home with firearms, so there's pretty much nothing they can do.
Literally the only way to stop this from happening is to preemptively add such an amount of security, even when the mansion is not being used, that it becomes physically impossible to break into.
It's absolutely bonkers.
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