Posted on 05/15/2008 4:24:36 AM PDT by Abathar
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- A Nashville, Tennessee, 911 operator has been fired after he was recorded saying that he didn't "give a s---" about what happened to a woman who had just called to report her ex-boyfriend was threatening her.
Emergency Communications Center spokeswoman Amanda Sluss said Wednesday that Frank Roth was in training during the February incident and was fired a month later.
Roth made the comments after promising police would arrive soon for a woman who called saying her ex-boyfriend held her at knifepoint and later was threatening her.
After hanging up with her but while still being recorded, he said, "I really don't give a s--- what happens to you."
Sluss says the incident is not reflective of how 911 operators treat callers and that "a series of errors" led to the delay in response to Sheila Jones.
"Certainly this particular caller didn't receive the service she deserved," Sluss said. "This is not indicative of how our employees treat citizens. It's not something that should have been said. It's not what we train our employees to do."
It took police three hours to reach the scene after the first call.
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She could have walked 10 miles to the police station faster.
And they're worried about the comment he made to himself after he hung up the phone?
(He deserved to be fired.)
The police are not there to protect you. They are by our own constitution, there to respond to a crime committed. Protecting yourself is your own responsibility and that starts with being a bit more selective with who you become intimate with.
He can call me anything he wants as long as he gets the cops to where I am fast.
“Help! I cut a tree down and it landed on me, Hurry!”
“Okay Dumb*ss, I have fire and police burning rubber to get to you.”
I got no problem with that.
How true. Great post!
She was probably one of their regular callers.
A McDonald’s employee would have been fired quicker for behavior like this. Protect and serve? Yea, right . . .
Sounds like a firearm advertisement doesn't it.
Apparently that's what the police had to do.
They were not using vehicles that night to reduce their carbon footprint..........
Most of these 911 operators are nothing but a joke. Like many of the cops.
...I can understand why this guy said what he said...watch the tv show “Cops” for a while and you see the same thing over and over....a bunch of riff raff making problems....half the time drunk....I’d like to know what it costs the law abiding citizen for 911 to handle one domestic call....911 operator salary/cops salary/cops car/EMT salary/ambulance/dept of social services case worker ect.ect...annual costs must be tremendous.
....it still doesn’t excuse the operator’s action...he deserved getting fired....sounds like they did him a favor though...got him out of a bad job.
While I do not dispute your statement, many officers and especially police chiefs advise people to not protect themselves nor take certain steps to protect themselves, and instead to depend on the police for that protection. But no charges of fraud ever come from this (oddly enough).
Jim Rome went off on this on his show yesterday. Kinda funny.
"Oh, how judgemental of you!" < /leftistjackass>
They should keep a talley of these costs and post them every year:
Repeat callers: $XX
Repeat callers, alcohol/drug related: $XX
Repeat callers, alcohol/drug related, on public assistance: $XX
“They should keep a talley of these costs and post them every year:
Repeat callers: $XX
Repeat callers, alcohol/drug related: $XX
Repeat callers, alcohol/drug related, on public assistance: $XX”
....you got that right MrB....of course, if such stats were ever made public the MSM could label it “mean spirited”....as I watch my taxes go up and up I’m getting more ‘mean spirited’ every day.
“The police are not there to protect you. They are by our own constitution, there to respond to a crime committed. “
Which wouldn’t be a problem except that most police are against allowing civilians to carry weapons.
Remember this the next time you hear someone say “They should have just dialed 911”.
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