Survival and Emergency Preparedness

I pasted the interesting parts of the article below:

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department categorizes its calls as part of its 'call reduction initiative.' Through this initiative, dispatchers can take what is considered a low priority crime report over the telephone without ever sending an officer. Those crimes include destruction of property, stealing, auto theft and stolen guns.

Priority one calls include homicides and rapes and typically get a response in around six minutes. Priority two also dispatches an officer. Those are crimes in progress, like a car break-in. Response time is around 12 minutes. Priority three are crimes that have already happened and there is not evidence to collect at the scene, which includes a car break-in. Police do not track response time for these types of calls, according to Edwards.

https://www.kmov.com/news/st-louis-city ... 62791.html

Isn't it nice to know, if you are being raped, you only have to wait 6 minutes for help, on average.

If your home is being broken into, you only need to wait 12 minutes on average.

Hence an individual is their own first line of defense.

Well, since the supreme court ruling that police are under no obligation to come to an situation that may put them in harms way. One more reason to depend only on one person for help. Yourself.

Here is a condenced version of what is said.

"In the cases DeShaney vs. Winnebago and Town of Castle Rock vs. Gonzales, the supreme court has ruled that police agencies are not obligated to provide protection of citizens. In other words, police are well within their rights to pick and choose when to intervene to protect the lives and property of others — even when a threat is apparent."

the decision was made by the courts in 1989.

One of the Sheriff's in my state that has a very firm grasp of the situation. Kudos to him!