The old joke is true. Call the police, call Domino's. See who gets there first. Hint: Have change for the pizza boy.
From the “Dial 911 And Die” file - another reason to own guns.
90% of police work is reactive. Buy a gun, get a dog.
Get a gun and know how to use it. The police will not protect you. They will, however, be able to bring the crime scene yellow tape and the chalk to outline your body. The horrible home invasion story from Connecticut ought to be a wake-up call to everyone who thinks they are safe in their homes these days.
Tell them you are going to shoot the perp. They’ll show up immediately.
Just pay your taxes and shut up.
I do volunteer work in the DFW area and we had an incident with our alarm system and the company was unable, for whatever reason to contact us. It took 90 minutes for the police to show up and they didn’t come to the door right away, they cruised outside looking into the windows. Could have been laying on the floor in a pool of blood...way to go guys.
Key words to use if you really want a policeman.
Some one actually called 911 and died yesterday in Detroit. A guy collapsed on his front porch and all the neighbors called 911. They waited over an hour for the ambulance to show. One of the cops who was waiting was related to the guy and he pulled some strings and got a private ambulance from the neighboring county to show up. But it was too late, the guy died on the way to the hospital.
A major problem with, and the main reason response priority is so low is due to the alarm owners and companies themselves. In the real world, about 99% are false alarms.
The New Jersey Supremes ruled that there is no right to police protection. Dialing 911 does not guarantee a response. The case concerned a man who dialed 911 when he saw a woman getting abducted. They answered but never shower up. She was raped and murdered and the police were probably facing some kind of wrongful death (negligence) suit.
Typical of government: seize a private function, make it a government institution, over time service degrades, but the institution becomes so ingrained in the culture and minds of voters that even though it costs government far more to pay for the private service it displaced, the voters cannot envision life where they would provide the service themselves, even if it were ten times better.
Think: Public Education. Anyone who wants to try vouchers is accused of wanting to “deny children vital funds”, or similar nonsense.
Think: Social Security.
Warning, warning, warning!!: the same exact conversion of Health Care is just one election away from reality!
Problem here MR Kunkle, is that 99% of the dummies answering 911 calls haven't got enough sense to determine what is and what isn't a life threatening emergency.
Another sensible precaution is to move to a small town. Someplace with about a dozen cops on the entire force. You call them, most any night, over a rustling in the bushes, and they will ALL show up. Anything for a little excitement.