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Originally Posted by Eddies66
If the need to arm Neighborhood Watch becomes necessary than it is time to hire more police.
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As Alan wrote earlier, when seconds count, the police are minutes away. Your neighbor is next door.
Not having anything to do with neighborhood watch, but relevant to police response time and 911 dispatch instructions, a Denver area 911 dispatcher was fired last week. A citizen called 911 to report a road rage incident. The dispatcher instructed the caller to return to the scene of the incident to wait for police. He did. So did the instigator of the incident. That's when and where the caller was shot to death.
The police perform very important services every day, but they can't be everywhere all of the time.