Posted on 07/06/2013 9:42:54 AM PDT by Q-ManRN
911 call(no gun)=48 minutes= dead
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/16/grace.coldcase.zimmerman/
911 call(with gun)=90 minutes= alive
http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Slow-Response-By-Dallas-Police-Angers-Robbery-Victim-206317351.html
Good thing the 'dead body' wasn't me!!! altho sometimes it feels a little like it... ;-) Howdy!
Let’s make your first post a link.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3039507/posts
URLs auto-link in most posts, as long as there is no HTML. This does not work in the original post, for some reason. Pro tip on FR workings.
Hello Marcella, I can obviously relate to your sentiments. I see the situation as more of a regression than a progression. If regressives have their way, we will all be living in areas that are like Detroit and Chicago.
The laws make it increasingly difficult to defend yourself while criminals run armed and unchecked.
Good for you for taking personal responsibility for protecting yourself and your family. It is great that you realize that there is no one that can better protect you than you.
Thank you. I need all of the free tips that I can get! :)
Excellent! I sometimes wonder if we are in the Great Tribulation... perhaps it has never been worse than it is now... certainly not in this country!
Like chumming for sharks!
bfl
So when you post Part 3, after you make your post, reply to your post #1 with something like:
Part 1
[put the URL for Part 1 here]
Part 2
[put the URL for Part 2 here]
and the URLs will automagically turn into links.
Ultimately individual police officers would prefer to go home at the end of their shifts. People should keep that in mind.
I mean no disrespect to any LEO’s who might be on this thread.
Thank you again. I like processes that work automagically a lot!
And a few officers, like other human beings, can have rough spots in their private life that cause some acting out in their professional life. It happens in ALL professions.
For many current police, it's just another civil service job. They are in it for the benefits and the retirement package, and have no interest in taking any risks. (Note, I said "many" not "all"). Also, police depts with tight budgets cannot afford the medical and disability costs of having an injured cop, so police management tends to emphasize a policy of "officer safety above all", even when individual cops would want to go after the bad guys.
LEO’s are human like the rest of us.
“I sometimes wonder if we are in the Great Tribulation.”
Me, too - I think we are there.
” LEO’s are human like the rest of us.”
Precisely!
Reading this, and having grown up in a area where the most impressive estate around was "The Sicilian Club", the following explanation occurred to me.
The business of the Mafia was to make money providing contraband goods and illegal services to a larger society demanding both and willing to pay. Unshackled by legal niceties and equipped with a medieval willingness to inflict punishment on opponents anything which interfered with the conduct and profitability of that business was brutally and summarily dealt with.
The police, on the other hand, are low paid government functionaries more concerned with making it home to their families than anything else. And there's no blame or shame in that. But they lack the means and the motivation to do anything more than catalog the carnage around them, go home to their families, and collect their steady albeit meager pay.
Living in the home neighborhoods of the old time Mafia was akin to living within the walls of a robber baron's castle. As long as he wasn't robbing you, and assuming you didn't have the means to live in a Wayne Manor of your very own, it was one of the safest places where one could possibly reside.
Nice job. I’d like to read the rest of them.
Please ping me when you post them.
Thank you and stay tuned.
Good post! Thanks for sharing it.
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