Wow, talk about not taking any responsibility for a horrible 911 service.
As someone who has tried calling 911 a number of times, I now wouldn't bother unless someone directly linked to me was in serious danger or I saw someone who was in undeniable need of help. In fact, I am far far far more likely to go help them myself than depend on 911/police.
I am not going to sit on a long hold waiting for a 911 operator, I am not going to wait for hours in an information vacuum for a police officer to actually show up to the scene, I am not going to live with the frustration that comes with knowing that hours of my day have been spent waiting for a cop to acknowledge my existence as a witness and then filling out statements that will not actually be used for anything because the person will get off on some ######ed plea deal because the prosecutor is too overworked to actually get mere semi-bad-guys convicted of anything. It is all such a joke.
I think there are a lot of different reasons people don't call 911, some fair and some not, but no one should discount the disenfranchisement people feel with the system itself. (All without going into the politics behind our emergency response set-up, etc)
Claeren.
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