Oh yeah. Let's tie up a few squad units watching an old woman for 8 hours. In the meantime, a crowd gathers. Then people start making noise. If the police try to do anything, people start throwing stuff. In some neighborhoods, you can stand around all day.
We got called to a housing project for a heart attack. Midway into the procedure, the police tell us we have to leave. A crowd was forming and they were having trouble keeping out of the ambulance. They wanted to steal drugs. This was at 3PM, not during the night. We strapped the lady in and took her off. She died.
They had sent me out to get the defibrillator and I remember thinking "Who are all these people? Don't they have jobs?" I was in high school. What did I know?
That's your f'ing job. I guess "Serve and protect" has become "Serve unless it's an inconvenience, and protect my own ass even if I kill a sick old woman."
Nice. Real nice.
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So tying up a few cops for 8 hours, which is almost certainly much longer than it would have taken to wait her out BTW, is not worth it to save a human life in your opinion? I hope to God you aren't still working in any capacity that involves the lives or safety of other people, because you obviously don't place much value on human life.