[Immerito]

Outrageous. Are there no murders, no rapes, no burglaries in those seventeen districts that all those officers have time for THIS?

****

“Cops are referring to this operation as a “well-being check”. They apparently take these well-being checks pretty seriously:”

“Oak forest police and officers from 16 other districts were called in. Negotiators called his home, but eventually got him on his cell phone. The chief said he never told investigators he was not inside his house.”

[dragnet2]

Oak forest police and officers from 16 other districts were called in. Negotiators called his home, but eventually got him on his cell phone. The chief said he never told investigators he was not inside his house.”

Did they bother to ask him if he was OK or if he needed any help?

Officers were called in from 16 districts?

Maybe they should have brought in the national guard.

[Tublecane]

“The chief said he never told investigators he was not inside his house.”

Which begs the question: what *did* he say? If it wasn’t along the lines of “Goodbye cruel world,” maybe they could’ve taken it a bit slower.