Bob_Skurka
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<font color="blue"> 45 minutes.... ridiculous. </font>
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45 minutes.... COMMON.
Don't bet your life on 911. The police are NOT there to protect you. They'll be there in time to take a report.
That's YOUR job. </font> <font color="green">
The police are NOT there to protect you. Wow, sounds kind of insulting to men and women of law enforcement. I personally take exception to that statement. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif As far as response time goes in Baltimore County Maryland response time is usually around 10-15 minutes or less. Even calls to the country response time is no where near 45 minutes. </font>
I am friends with the #2 ranking officer in town (I live 6 mile outside of town and am not covered by his department), and I employ 2 police officers at my company. My view is that IF the police are able to, they will do everything they can to protect you. However, most times they cannot do that because they are on the scene after the fact. That is just the reality of it. The officers I know tell me that my view is pretty accurate.
My burglar alarm went off, my neighbor called me even before the alarm service called me. They had also called the sheriff. A few moments later my alarm service called me and they had called the sherriff. I left my office to drive home. My office is 17 miles north of my home, I arrived at the house before the sheriff arrived. It takes me at least 30 minutes to make the drive from the office to the house. I did a visual inspection of the exterior, I checked all the exterior doors, everything was locked, everything in tact. I entered the home (gun drawn) and did a search. One of the dogs had tripped a motion sensor by entering a room that was supposed to have been locked off (human error) so it was a false alarm.
I was calling the alarm company to report the status and heard a helicopter overhead. It was the sheriff. They were hovering over my driveway looking at my convertible. It took them at least 45 minutes to show up with a helicopter. At least 45 minutes!
Now I have no idea if they had 10 real emergencies that same day or not, but I do know that in the time span of 45 minutes there was all sorts of bad stuff that could have happened.
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45 minutes.... COMMON.
Don't bet your life on 911. The police are NOT there to protect you. They'll be there in time to take a report.
That's YOUR job. </font> <font color="green">
The police are NOT there to protect you. Wow, sounds kind of insulting to men and women of law enforcement. I personally take exception to that statement. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif As far as response time goes in Baltimore County Maryland response time is usually around 10-15 minutes or less. Even calls to the country response time is no where near 45 minutes. </font>
I am friends with the #2 ranking officer in town (I live 6 mile outside of town and am not covered by his department), and I employ 2 police officers at my company. My view is that IF the police are able to, they will do everything they can to protect you. However, most times they cannot do that because they are on the scene after the fact. That is just the reality of it. The officers I know tell me that my view is pretty accurate.
My burglar alarm went off, my neighbor called me even before the alarm service called me. They had also called the sheriff. A few moments later my alarm service called me and they had called the sherriff. I left my office to drive home. My office is 17 miles north of my home, I arrived at the house before the sheriff arrived. It takes me at least 30 minutes to make the drive from the office to the house. I did a visual inspection of the exterior, I checked all the exterior doors, everything was locked, everything in tact. I entered the home (gun drawn) and did a search. One of the dogs had tripped a motion sensor by entering a room that was supposed to have been locked off (human error) so it was a false alarm.
I was calling the alarm company to report the status and heard a helicopter overhead. It was the sheriff. They were hovering over my driveway looking at my convertible. It took them at least 45 minutes to show up with a helicopter. At least 45 minutes!
Now I have no idea if they had 10 real emergencies that same day or not, but I do know that in the time span of 45 minutes there was all sorts of bad stuff that could have happened.
