no knives or back door???
Posted on 05/28/2013 6:33:21 PM PDT by EXCH54FE
Earlier this month, an audio recording surfaced of a 911 call coming from Josephine County, Oregon, that illustrates just how bad a situation can get when an area doesn’t have an adequate law enforcement agency or its citizens are ill equipped to protect themselves.
In the recording that was published by Oregon Public Broadcasting and occurred in August 2012, a woman asks an emergency services dispatcher for help, explaining that her ex-boyfriend — one who just weeks before beat her so badly that she needed medical attention — was trying to break into her house. The dispatcher told the desperate woman the only thing she could: to hide, take another beating and then ask her attacker to leave, or to call back during business hours because there were no officers in the area to respond.
Under normal circumstances a community would be outraged because of the dispatcher’s callous instructions, but everything she said was true. Since the Sheriff’s Department was grossly understaffed and underfunded, it could only afford to operate 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. And the incident occurred about 5 o’clock Saturday morning. Shortly after the woman hung up the phone, her ex-boyfriend pried open the door to the house, choked her and then raped her.
While this is an extreme example of what could happen, Sheriff Gil Gilbertson said, “There isn’t a day go by that we don’t have another victim.”
Although the recording is dated Aug. 18, 2012, it has earned fresh attention since it surfaced during campaigning for a May 21 special election regarding raising property taxes from 59 cents to $1.48 per $1,000 of property value. The tax levy would have raised funds for law enforcement and public safety, however, the community voted against the tax increase, according to the Associated Press.
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Perhaps the woman should have had a gun.
When you leave your personal safety up to someone else, they may let you down.
Well, Skip, driftdiver has won an all expense paid re-loader setup for the caliber of his choice, shown here by our model Svetlana.
I have a Rockchucker, I’ll take Svetlana.
Meanwhile, what does the same government spend on arts, or diversity, or library awareness programs, or any other of the thousand things governments tend to continue to do, after law enforcement is cut?
They don’t have ANY law enforcement there? Highway Patrol? Nobody?
If I ever have a strong compelling need to rob a bank I know where I’m heading.
no knives or back door???
We, as a society are so weak that we expect someone else to protect our lives and property.
Intelligent people have weapons to protect themselves and property and are not so stupid as to believe that after 10 to 30 minutes after they call for help everything will be OK.
When seconds count, the police will arrive within a few minutes.
You cannot help but have a nice visual to that name, huh?
State PD/Troopers/Highway Patrol, whatever you want to call them become the only hundred miles off response when a local LE has no service.
No “Diversity Coordinator” ever lost a job due to budget cuts or sequestration.
LOL
she’s second hand but a good gal.
I traded her in for newer model “Gjirgen -Kjirgen of Fjord in Sweden”
That's the only solution. At this point, the county government can do nothing more than urge the citizens to obtain weapons and learn how to to use them. For that reason, the county officials will be negligent if they don't do that.
... to say nothing of the Assistant Undersecretary for the Diversity Coordinator.
I asked him specifically what that meant. His reply: buy a gun and a big dog.
I took him at his word. To this day, still have a big dog, and now have my wife and both kids armed and trained to shoot.
BTW: I live in rural Will County, IL - about 35 miles SW of Chicago. Folks out here are generally pretty conservative in their belief's and as I know them, are well prepared to defend their families and their homes from the rioting Obama voters should they leave Chitcago and head out this way.
Police and fire are second responders. American citizens are first responders.
When and if I have trouble around my home, the cops are the last thing I think of.
I would bet the city/county/state allocate funds for bicycle paths, art in the park, conferences for politicians, etc., etc. It is unfortunate for the woman but you generally get what you voted for.
I live in the suburbs of Tampa, not that far out.
We had someone break into our home and it took the cops 10 mins to get there. A pretty good response time but a really long time if someone is kicking in your door.
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