Help me to help you
Dispatch is on the air sending multiple units to what they can gather is some form of disturbance. It's difficult to understand the woman screaming bloody murder on the telephone.
Based on what the officer in dispatch is hearing, responding units are told to "step it up." Officers are racing from all over, urgently trying to get to the scene. The first unit arrives and tells other units to "slow it down." Things aren't as bad as we feared, and officers back off the throttle.
Multiple units are on scene now, and everyone else is cancelled. A female attack victim is crying, make-up streaming down her face. Her boyfriend struck her and threatened to kill her before fleeing. She doesn't have any marks on her face andcan't won't remember what her boyfriend looks like. She loves him and doesn't want him arrested. She refuses to give a statement.
Officers clear to take other calls that were put on the back burner for this priority call. A priority call that the victim didn't want help with, but called 911 anyway.
If you're not interested in cooperating with us, don't call us. Deal with it yourself and stop wasting our time, there are folks out there that really do want our help.
Based on what the officer in dispatch is hearing, responding units are told to "step it up." Officers are racing from all over, urgently trying to get to the scene. The first unit arrives and tells other units to "slow it down." Things aren't as bad as we feared, and officers back off the throttle.
Multiple units are on scene now, and everyone else is cancelled. A female attack victim is crying, make-up streaming down her face. Her boyfriend struck her and threatened to kill her before fleeing. She doesn't have any marks on her face and
Officers clear to take other calls that were put on the back burner for this priority call. A priority call that the victim didn't want help with, but called 911 anyway.
If you're not interested in cooperating with us, don't call us. Deal with it yourself and stop wasting our time, there are folks out there that really do want our help.
Labels: pet peeve, stupidity, the good the bad the ugly
posted by Moe at 12:23
4 Comments:
Moe:
I had to laugh at the whole "can't/won't" remember the boyfriend's description...simply amazing.
I agree with you 100%.
Let the police DO THEIR JOB...not take you by the hand and walk you through life...besides, wasn't that what your PARENTS were for?
(until you could stand on your own two feet, anyway)
In our city, we've always got the 911 "hangups" to deal with...way too many to be a "coincidence".
(just stupidity)
Stay safe.
From Moe: Deal with it yourself and stop wasting our time, there are folks out there that really do want our help.
Sure, be glad to. But when I do deal with it myself, do not pull your gun on me, apply a Tazer to my nuts, cuff and stuff me and then lecture me about taking the law into your own hands.
Deal?
I don't lecture people. As for the other stuff, if you don't want to do things properly, then you get what you deserve.
Dear Moe,
I so hear your frustration and you are exactly right. The only other thing I can add is that recovery/escape from bad stuff is not always a straight line progression.
She's wrong and she knows it. At the same time, the show of people willing to help her may cause her to seek help before the crisis next time. We can only hope.
Thanks for saying and acting like it matters, because it does. If this woman has never been supported before, you showed it her it was possible.
Ann T.
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