Getting Police to Believe Abuse?

I've suffered for years under the abusive grip of my extremely controlling father. Back when I still lived at home, my dad managed to have me involuntarily committed against my will twice in one month! This was quite a feat, as I have never been a threat to myself or to others, nor have I ever suffered from any type of mental illness.

My dad was a wealthy and respected businessman who had strong ties to the police force in our small town. Not only did my dad work with the cops, but my dad also had a team of aggressive lawyers who would threaten to "sue" any cop or psychiatrist who didn't want to do my father's bidding. Both the local cops AND the local shrinks at the County and Private Psych Facilities FEARED my father. They acted as if my dad was their boss, truly. A cop and a shrink both said to me: "Your dad will 'sue my @$$ off if I don't have you committed".

My dad had me locked up simply as a perverse form of "punishment" for God only knows what. I was a good kid/young adult and did nothing to deserve my dad's wrath. Neither did my mom, and he would abuse her, too. My dad would punch HOLES in the walls! But neither I not my mom ever called the police. We were way too scared! Dad said the cops would NEVER believe me or my mom. Also, my mom and I feared reprisal from my dad if we ever tried to report his abuse. So we lived with it. (My mom was a much better "victim" than I was. I wasn't always so willing to just accept my dad's abuse without question, which is the reason why my dad singled me out for specific torture.)

I'm now experiencing an unfortunate situation in which my older brother is utilizing some of my dad's old abuse tactics, even teaming up with my dad to harass me and to have me harassed by cops!

I've lived on my own for many years and thought that any fears of cops storming into my house and hauling me off in handcuffs to a Psych Ward were long gone. Maybe my dad could no longer accomplish that particular feat, but my dad and my older brother are now teaming up to try to get me into legal trouble and I did NOT do anything WRONG! (I didn't do anything wrong 20 years ago, either). My dad holds ALL the power and knows exactly what to say to cops to get them to believe HIM and not ME.

My brother and his wife (whom I haven't seen or spoken to in 20 years) were recently sending me harassing nasty letters and phoning me with horrid threats. I'm not in good physical health, and they wish me death from my illness. I have no idea if that qualifies as a "death threat" but it is extremely distressing. I do NOT have caller ID so I wasn't able to record the calls.

My brother knows I can't afford a lawyer, either. Naively, I tore up the letters that wished me death from illness. I never thought I'd need them for any police investigation! I just viewed them as "bad karma" that I did NOT want to keep in my house. I DID tell my parents about it. My dad couldn't care less. My MOM told me to just "let it go" and not make a big deal out of it.

I just kept "taking" the abuse from my brother and his wife, until finally one day I'd had enough of their harassment. A few months ago, I wrote a letter to my brother, telling him to LEAVE ME ALONE! That's basically all that I said: Just leave me alone. No threats or anything else.

I was astonished to shortly thereafter receive a voicemail message from a cop in my brother's home county in Florida, which is 3,000 miles away from where I live! The cop informed me via message, "IF you have any further contact with your brother---unsolicited by him---via mail, phone, email, Facebook---YOU will face criminal charges"!!! I literally could NOT believe what I was hearing! "Criminal charges"?! WHY?! For what? For writing my brother a letter telling him to "leave me alone" and STOP harassing me? And the "unsolicited by him" part made me nauseated! SO my brother is still FREE to harass ME whenever he feels like it?! And at NO POINT did the cop even want to hear MY SIDE of the story.

I found out that my dad had gotten involved and that my DAD's name was on the police report along with my brother's name. My Dad lives in my state, so it doesn't even make logical sense for my dad's name to be on that police report. It doesn't make sense for there to BE a police report! Once again, my DAD was doing whatever he could to try to make MY LIFE HELL, and he succeeded. My dad spoke to the COP in my brother's county and told her all sorts of LIES about me, just as my dad told the cops here horrible LIES about me 20 years ago to get me 5150'd.

My dad always tells me: "The cops will NEVER believe you over ME. The cops will look at your "history" (the two 5150's) compared to MY history, and they will ALWAYS automatically believe ME. They won't believe a word you say. You have NO credibility". (My dad has no arrest record and my mom and I never reported the domestic violence).

What can I do to clear my name? There are no "criminal charges" for the letter, but my brother gave the cops a PHONY LETTER---NOT the letter that I'd actually written him. My brother wrote all these weird racial slurs (his wife is Asian, not that I care about that) and even copied slogans in German from neo-Nazi websites! My brother attributed these hateful epithets to ME, when I had nothing to do with it! (On my Facebook page, it is public knowledge that I Majored in Psychology and Minored in German, so perhaps my brother wrote the stuff in German to try to "prove" that only *I* could be the author.) It's stupid, but the idiot COPS in his county seem to believe it!

I have a career to think about, and I do NOT ever want anyone to dig up this PUBLIC police report, only for me to get accused of being a "racist". I'm a very tolerant person; that's not me at all. And I called up the police station in Florida and they told me that ANYONE can access that police report! They have a 'sunshine law' or open policy in their county.

Is it true that POLICE will never believe me because of the two 5150's that my dad placed on me 20 years ago? Right after it happened, I moved out and never looked back. In these subsequent 20 years, NOTHING has happened----NO arrests, NO commitments---NOTHING. I'm a perfectly normal upstanding citizen.

But now I suddenly have this crap about the alleged "letter" to worry about. My brother was so EVIL to turn his own harassment back on me! And the stupid COPS never even ASKED for MY SIDE of the story. I feel like I'm being framed for something I didn't do. I admit I'm afraid to talk to COPS after what my dad did to me 20 years ago. However, if I could go to those Florida COPS in PERSON, I would, but they are 3,000 miles away! I don't want to speak to the officer over the phone, because she sounded very hostile and prejudicial against me. (I'm sure my DAD told her all sorts of LIES about me). I know I'd get scared and clam up, and my illness can make it difficult to concentrate. The only thing left would be to write a LETTER to the COP, explaining MY side of the story. Does anyone know if this would be a bad idea? A good idea? Thanks for any advice!