Police response times...fudging the records
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 11:31 am
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In a suburb of Baltimore, a house break-in at 2 AM shows that the police are distorting the records on their response times.
The official police record shows that an officer responded within 1 minute of the 911 call. Meanwhile...
How accurate are police records on response times, if the above egregious case shows a 14-15 minute response time versus the erroneous police record of 1 minute? Could this sort of deliberate falsifying of response times be widespread across the country?
In a suburb of Baltimore, a house break-in at 2 AM shows that the police are distorting the records on their response times.
The official police record shows that an officer responded within 1 minute of the 911 call. Meanwhile...
If you're a liberal and anti-gun, then the above scenario could be in your future.As Baltimore Police scrambled to the scenes of shootings early Saturday morning, two young females and a 2-year-old boy were trapped on a rooftop...
Trapped on the second floor, the three had only a rooftop run to.
For nearly 15 minutes, Gaasch was on the phone with 911.
During the call, Gaasch said: “I keep telling the dispatcher, 'They’re still in the house, they’re still in the house. Where are the cops? We need them here. We have nowhere to go.”'
At one point, Gaasch could hear sirens off in the distance.
The dispatcher tells Gaasch they’re responding to another call.
While Baltimore police say an officer arrived to the house a minute after the call was dispatched, phone records show Gaasch was on the phone with 911 for 14 minutes. Online 911 data posted by the City of Baltimore shows an initial call received at 2:15 a.m. from the Highlandtown address.
How accurate are police records on response times, if the above egregious case shows a 14-15 minute response time versus the erroneous police record of 1 minute? Could this sort of deliberate falsifying of response times be widespread across the country?