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To: ApplegateRanch
Problem number one is the routine sending of police to a medical call, when the odds are they will arrive before the paramedics arrive. This automatically escalates a tense but peaceful situation into a confrontation.

Absolutely and if you notice this is a situation that is being repeated more an more these days. So I think its safe to say that maybe, just maybe its not the patient, nor the medical call, or the Ambulance Crews who are the problems here... its the rising introduction of police to a non-law enforcement situation.

Also it seems that more and more Fire and EMT's are being locked up on non-LE calls where cops are responding, involving themselves in situations they have no training or business to be in and get offended by a Fire or EMT personnel, so their first reaction is to arrest them.

And the cops are surprised or shocked when the public has no support for them and little good to say about them.

17 posted on 07/11/2010 10:36:45 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

What’s non-LE?


25 posted on 07/11/2010 11:12:25 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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