"Six 911 Calls Later"

This post will be a response to the podcast by Pink Rifle (by the way this podcast addition and the other discussing the woman protecting herself from her stalker can be found on iTunes by Pink Rifle who has a website: www.pinkrifle.com)

In this podcast addition, Pink Rifle plays and remarks on 911 tapings. As the story goes, a man is forced to call 911 a ridiculous six times because a "dark figure" was firing shots at his house and a neighbor's house from across a small lake. Even when he told 911 operators that his neighbor had felt a bullet "whiz by his head" that did not speed up the process and the victims waited almost 40 minutes until police officers reached the scene and over a dozen shots had already been fired. In the end, Pink Rifle plays a tape of the police department issuing a statement of apology, admitting that the call possibly should have been prioritized a bit more and that they were "investigating" the issue with their communications center.

Things like this should not happen but they are a reality. Quite honestly, this was a situation were people had no way of protecting themselves and were relying on the good old American system to pull through. Although one may argue that it is only more of a reason to remove weapons from the general population, I do not believe that point is valid. If the "dark figure" was at closer range this might have been a much more damaging situation. If anything, this story presents a major issue in our society: our police department. Clearly understaffed and with backwards priorities, the police department has shown itself time and time again to be virtually useless beyond posing speed traps (which they seem to work very hard at -maybe they should concentrate efforts elsewhere, like maybe, protecting citizens from malignant gunfire? -just a thought). The woman in the previously discussed stalker case was not aided by the police, she had already involved the police in early problems but this time they were too late and sirens could be heard in the background only after he had stormed into her room and she shot him to death. The police are not as accessible as they should be, opening the doors for more criminal activity and subjecting law-abiding citizens to torment and fear where there should be much less.

Point: protect yourself. Not because no one else can, but it seems that sometimes no one else will.