Investigation: D[allas] PD Arrives Hours After Some Crimes [From The "Dial 911 And Die" File]

CBS 11 TV (DFW, Texas) ^ | 23 Jul 2007 | Brooke Richie

[theBuckwheat]

Typical of government: seize a private function, make it a government institution, over time service degrades, but the institution becomes so ingrained in the culture and minds of voters that even though it costs government far more to pay for the private service it displaced, the voters cannot envision life where they would provide the service themselves, even if it were ten times better.

Think: Public Education. Anyone who wants to try vouchers is accused of wanting to “deny children vital funds”, or similar nonsense.

Think: Social Security.

Warning, warning, warning!!: the same exact conversion of Health Care is just one election away from reality!

[pikachu]

Dallas cops and sheriffs are in a tough position. They get political pressure to be ‘PC’, hands off the friends of politicos, make sure the rich are safe, and do buck their commanders. MEanwhile they hear the complaints and know they have no way to deal with them. I know some of these men and women and most are looking to transfer or hold out for retirement. No wonder Dallas leads the FBI crime stats. But atleast the bars are no smoking and cops have to patrol for that!

[org.whodat]

Kunkle stresses that most of these 4,000 calls are likely not for life-threatening emergencies, classified as priority ones and twos.

Problem here MR Kunkle, is that 99% of the dummies answering 911 calls haven't got enough sense to determine what is and what isn't a life threatening emergency.

[theBuckwheat]

Yes, exactly. It is not that people suddenly become slobs, dolts and incompetents when they work for government. A lot of successful people, including myself used to hold government jobs. It is that the entire focus and orientation of the organization is totally different than that of the private enterprise it supplanted.

Government agencies have government priorities, in short, they are only political animals. Private business can only function by giving a priority to making a profit. Government should stick to government: courts, military, etc. When it weighs into areas that are the realm of private affairs or of business, then it cannot do well.

(Similarly, we must never allow business to perform a government function.)

[NEMDF]

Funny but true... We had a bookkeeper stealing money a few years back, and the police said they couldn’t come out for a couple more DAYS, then my boss said, well if you don’t come and arrest her TODAY then there will be a murder to deal with as well, and the officers showed up in about 10 minutes to arrest her.

[Graymatter]

Another sensible precaution is to move to a small town. Someplace with about a dozen cops on the entire force. You call them, most any night, over a rustling in the bushes, and they will ALL show up. Anything for a little excitement.

[art_rocks]

Have you heard the audio of the woman who called 911 because the fast food joint got her order wrong and she wanted a police officer to come down and fix it.