[Sacajaweau]

I heard the operator talking about it. He just didn’t know....but 22 minutes to get someone there??? It doesn’t matter. The delay probably saved lives!!

[napscoordinator]

Horrible situation. I feel for everyone. I mean that operator will have to live with that mistake forever. The Villain must still be focused on that stupid Dad who killed his two kids.

[Cicero]

I don’t think there’s a chance that responders could have gotten there in time.

But according to another report posted here earlier, there were indications that this guy was a sex pervert lunatic, and there were long delays while they failed to resolve that question. They never should have allowed the kids to visit this guy until they HAD worked it out.

I think that’s where they screwed up.

[WXRGina]

Transcript of social worker’s first call to 911 before the explosion (this is the male dispatcher in the article who regrets his handling of it):

http://www.thereporteronline.com/article/20120208/NEWS04/120209826/-1/LIFE/transcript-social-worker-s-911-call-from-josh-powell-s-home&pager=full_story

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It doesn’t matter. Nothing would have been changed, except maybe more people would have been killed. The guy was evil. He planned his evil well.

[Tex-Con-Man]

As a society, when it comes to child protective services, we only have but one of two choices;
Whether to error on the side of being overly cautious and risk separating kids from decent parents...
Or error on the side of being too lenient, knowing there are times when a child will come to harm at the hand of their own parent.

The point being, when it comes to messy domestic disputes, errors are inevitable, we just have to choose which one we can live with.

As a small, less intrusive government conservative, I want the bar to be very high before the state can take away someones own child.

[bgill]

Naw, someone calling 911 is just wanting to gab a while.

[NonValueAdded]

When seconds count ...

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

"Especially for somebody who has done this for as long as I have, to relisten to the call and hear how clumsy and faltering I sounded," Lovrak said, "It was horrible. This has been a nightmare."

Just an average government hack. Soverign immunity should become a thing of the past. Start making government agencies carry liabilty insurance like any other business, and remove the statutory protections.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

"Especially for somebody who has done this for as long as I have, to relisten to the call and hear how clumsy and faltering I sounded," Lovrak said, "It was horrible. This has been a nightmare."

Just an average government hack. Soverign immunity should become a thing of the past. Start making government agencies carry liabilty insurance like any other business, and remove the statutory protections.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

"Especially for somebody who has done this for as long as I have, to relisten to the call and hear how clumsy and faltering I sounded," Lovrak said, "It was horrible. This has been a nightmare."

Just an average government hack. Soverign immunity should become a thing of the past. Start making government agencies carry liabilty insurance like any other business, and remove the statutory protections.

[right way right]

I live within 4 miles of this event.
The Pierce County sheriff dept. is way under staffed in this area.

I read the transcript. I found it typical. The 911 dispatcher has to try to decide the priority of the situation.

As a result they become complacent in recognizing real dire situations because, they deal with so much trivial domestic disputes and minor crime.

It is a relatively low crime area with a very fast growing population. The fastest growing part of Washington.

While listening to the transcript is agonizing, the real fault belongs to whoever decided to allow visitation of a father under investigation for their mothers disappearance.

Out here the sheriff shows up to do the paper work after the fact.

I feel for the dispatcher, he definitely was not on the ball.