white heat

Not so. Here in Oregon the cops can't do anything in a store parking lot unless the store invites them too, so yeah, burnouts could get taken care of by the cops if the store complains.

hhrcrafty

Cops will almost never be dispatched to a non-injury collision in a parking lot. That said, from a legal perspective, you ALWAYS want the cops to respond if you are NOT at fault. Shady insurance companies are hard-pressed to deny a claim when a police report has been filed and the only way to do that is to tell the dispatcher that there's been an injury or you don't know for sure. Either way should trigger an EMS response and a ticket for the driver at fault.

wysguy

Here's how it works where I live...

Police will respond to a non-injury crash (not called "accidents" any more here, they had too many "on-purposes" when bad guys ran from cops, I guess). Police will also write crash report if requested by either/both driver(s). Not necessarily a "state crash form" (Pennsy is very strange about crash reports), most local departments adopted a simple "he said/she said" form to document the incident, in case the insurance company requests it.
They don't necessarily say "car x was at fault", and won't readily ticket someone for backing out of a parking spot whose view was blocked, and finally, will only enforce traffic laws in a parking lot if specifically requested in writing by the property owner (not necessarily the tenant/store staff)