Several years ago I came home to find that the back door had been pried open. I started to go on in but I decided to call 911 instead.
911: What's the emergency?
Me: I came home and found my house has been broken into. I'm not sure if anyone is still inside or not.
911: Where are you now?
Me: Outside hoping some SOB will come out the door.
911: Sir, are you armed?
Me: Yes
911: Sir, you need to put the weapon down now.
Me: I will just as soon as an officer arrives.
In about 2 minutes 3 cars came flying in from different directions. I put the gun away and let them clear the house.
I don’t think I’ll ever understand how they can tell someone to make themselves defenseless when there is risk of harm/death. I wouldn’t hesitate to tell them to go F themselves, easy to say that from the other side of the phone, their life isn’t in danger.Several years ago I came home to find that the back door had been pried open. I started to go on in but I decided to call 911 instead.
911: What's the emergency?
Me: I came home and found my house has been broken into. I'm not sure if anyone is still inside or not.
911: Where are you now?
Me: Outside hoping some SOB will come out the door.
911: Sir, are you armed?
Me: Yes
911: Sir, you need to put the weapon down now.
Me: I will just as soon as an officer arrives.
In about 2 minutes 3 cars came flying in from different directions. I put the gun away and let them clear the house.
I'm willing to bet it doesn't take 2 hours to show up if one of their friends or families puts in the call; funny how that works, but I'm probably anti-LEO for thinking that.
Most telecommunicators don't know the guys on the other end; they get the calls, they give them out. Now what the responders do is on them. But I know if I am the TC and I get a call at an address I know, yeah, I would likely give it out at 10-18 traffic (10-18 = "urgent/emergency").
Saying someone is in the house, your life is in danger, you are prepared to sweep the house while armed, these are triggers that would elicit a fast response.
In a large city, maybe, but in a small town or locality, if someone name drops there’s a good chance it’ll get recognized if it’s someone who’s somebody
Was that when you went on your first gun shopping trip?Police response to the active home invasion? 45 minutes.
Good point. Sounds like a good way of saying 'we're understaffed, need to hire more cops'."Over investigating" has the ability to delay response to the next call to almost any extent. Dispatch will not call an officer off a burglary and send him to an armed person call, not going to happen. The longer they can stretch this BS call the longer before they have to respond to the next call..... Remember "blue flu"?? It's the same but on the clock.....
About 10 or so years ago, my wife woke me up. 'I hear voices by the back window'. I got out of bed, and sure enough there's two guys trying to jimmy the window open. They had taken the screen off and were trying to get the window open when they saw me and ran off. My neighbor is a city cop, so I told her about it. 'Call the non emergency number. An officer will come out and take a report'. I called, couple hours later cop shows up, I show him the window and screen. 'What can you do' I asked. He says 'nothing'. 'Can you get fingerprints?'. Nope.Before we were married, my (now) wife was at home with a broken leg. A couple of big guys pounded on the front door. Thinking our friend, who lived down stairs had locked himself out, she hobbled down there and looked out the window. They saw her and started trying to kick the door in. Thankfully, it was a solid 100 year old door like they don't make anymore and it held. They went around the back of the house and tried kicking in that door. It cracked the frame but it held.
For whatever reason, when I went to class that evening, I set the alarm system we had in the house to bypass the upstairs but keep the downstairs fully active. They pushed in a window AC unit the and came in the bedroom window. She got herself locked in an upstairs bedroom with a knife just as the alarm system went off indicating they were in the house. Thankfully they got scared off by this and went right back out the window.
Police response to the active home invasion? 45 minutes.
A couple of weeks prior, the alarm tripped while we were gone. A screen was removed from a downstairs window and there were foot prints in front of it. We called and tried to file a police report, but after the responding couple sat in the driveway for 10 minutes having what looked like an argument, they blew us off and said we we full of it.
She certainly wanted one. Back in those days, I'm not sure what the process would have been or if I even thought people could buy them. After she was followed home one night, her grandfather offered to buy her a pistol to carry. This would have certainly been in the days before concealed carry permits. It would have probably been illegal to carry it, but that's what people did back then.Was that when you went on your first gun shopping trip?
'What can you do' I asked. He says 'nothig'. 'Can you get fingerprints?'. Nope.
Then why the f did I bother calling you guys.
There's another vid in the news link that's above the YT vid. My ADD won't let me listen to the Nuw Yoika akcent dat wong.So, I sat and listened to the whole video. Did I miss something or was there a "this is how it gets fixed" idea?
If you don't propose how to fix it you're not alleviating the problem.
Most telecommunicators don't know the guys on the other end; they get the calls, they give them out. Now what the responders do is on them. But I know if I am the TC and I get a call at an address I know, yeah, I would likely give it out at 10-18 traffic (10-18 = "urgent/emergency").
Saying someone is in the house, your life is in danger, you are prepared to sweep the house while armed, these are triggers that would elicit a fast response.
I can't speak to any other area but ours. LEs here are inherently lazy. Lazy by nature. 2nd and 3rd generation on the Government tit. Sheriff's department serves papers and oversees the jail and courthouse. That department is made up of LE retirees from the County PD and State HP and retired Yankee LEs. All hanging around the court house and airport. The County PD [only one in our state] is set up to be the enforcers for the County Council. A hired Yankee Chief and made up mostly by folks he gets hired and the nepoetists of the old regime. The last time a called them for a trespasser the Officer arriver 45 minutes later. I can't tell you how inept they are BUT I can't imagine how bold the thieves would be without their presence."Over investigating" has the ability to delay response to the next call to almost any extent. Dispatch will not call an officer off a burglary and send him to an armed person call, not going to happen. The longer they can stretch this BS call the longer before they have to respond to the next call..... Remember "blue flu"?? It's the same but on the clock.....
True, and something most people don't think about. As I think about it now, I have to wonder what we expected when we called back then. I guess we naively believed they would investigate and magically catch whoever was responsible? When it comes down to it, the function of police is to keep order of the public at large and as a whole, not to any individual. The benefit to the individual is only a side effect.
Good point. Sounds like a good way of saying 'we're understaffed, need to hire more cops'.