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‘Austin Has Failed’: Texas Man Slams Cops’ Lengthy Response Time to Deceased Person Call
Breitbart ^ | 07/04/2023 | Amy Furr

Posted on 07/04/2023 9:28:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A Texas man who found a deceased woman in her backyard claims it took several phone calls for Austin police to respond.

Retired Austin policeman Robert A. Gross’s letter to Mayor Kirk Watson regarding the woman who had been dead for two days was shared online by another retired officer identified as Dennis Farris, Fox News reported Monday.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: austin; cops; response; time
What do you expect from progressive Austin, Texas??
1 posted on 07/04/2023 9:28:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

911 is a joke.


2 posted on 07/04/2023 9:30:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

TWO DAYS? That is ridiculous. They need to Defund the Police!


3 posted on 07/04/2023 9:30:26 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
“They need to Defund the Police!”
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They already did; that's the genesis of the problem.

4 posted on 07/04/2023 9:44:02 AM PDT by Ozymandias Ghost
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Um...useful idiots vote in even bigger idiots into government. What did everyone expect?


5 posted on 07/04/2023 9:44:23 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, the APD did say that non-emergency calls would have longer response times due to under-staffing.
In their defense, she was already dead, right? /s


6 posted on 07/04/2023 9:49:00 AM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (There are only white hats and black hats. The black hats sole intent is to kill all the white hats.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It did not take the police two days to respond.

When the body was found, it had been dead for two days.


7 posted on 07/04/2023 9:50:17 AM PDT by Round Earther
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Twenty years ago the courts ruled that no municipality MUST respond to 911 emergency calls. The two most unobserved terms in contracts are, "May", and "Must" (Should means May, and Shall means Must in some cases)

Police and any government agency are not your friends, saviors, referees, family counselors, or pastor.

You are a nail, and they are a hammer. As a nail, don't call hammers.

8 posted on 07/04/2023 9:55:28 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When seconds count, the Austin Police will be there in two days.


9 posted on 07/04/2023 10:06:59 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

“When seconds count, the Austin Police will be there in two days.”

It did not take the police two days to respond.


10 posted on 07/04/2023 10:17:58 AM PDT by Round Earther
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Isn’t Austin where Californians move?


11 posted on 07/04/2023 10:36:12 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: ArcadeQuarters
Isn’t Austin where Californians move?


12 posted on 07/04/2023 10:37:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Delayed to deceased? Hey, he ain’t gettin’ any deader!


13 posted on 07/04/2023 10:50:48 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe she was just pining for the fjords.


14 posted on 07/04/2023 11:09:31 AM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, she was already dead. That means she had no priority!
I have noticed extremely slow police response lately.
I have been t-boned by some kid. Luckily no injuries.
The kid was actually polite and apologized and confessed.
Since there were no injuries, they left us in the middle of very busy street in the hot waiting for two hours.
But then two! police cars showed up!
It used to be one policeman showed up in similar situation very fast and took care about it.
Now they are understaffed and for security reasons they always show up with backup! Even in rather friendly collision case.


15 posted on 07/04/2023 11:47:07 AM PDT by AZJeep
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To: Ozymandias Ghost

My point (oblique as it was) was that they obviously didn’t defund enough. Cut the police budge in half again. If that doesn’t end crime, cut it in half again. Keep going until crime stops.


16 posted on 07/04/2023 12:11:01 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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