EMNofSeattle
Regular Member
With all the LEOs being laid off across the country as property tax revenues and sales tax revenues of the municipalities go down, I doubt the LEOs would respond to the call.
Home invasion with possible sexual assault is a high priority call. by the time the lady on the phone is asking you questions there should already be officers on the way. I really doubt it took the cops 20 minutes to get there too. Where I live a home invasion call is like a red alert scramble, officers will be there in minutes. (spare the seconds count argument, I know that already, that's not the point) Also while I am in the unincorporated south Kitsap county and there's only 4 deputies in the south kitsap region, Police Officers from the much better staffed city of Port Orchard Police Department will respond to out of city calls if there is no deputies close enough to arrive there first. POPD and Kitsap Sheriff work very closely together in the south part of the county. but the point of this is, in most suburban areas a call like that should be much less then 20 minutes. It can seem like a long time when someone is getting assaulted, and maybe Eye95 lives in a very remote rural area. but even in understaffed areas like where I live, a home invasion call should take much less then 20 minutes. years ago my best friend and his mother came home early from a vacation, my friends dad was very ill and stuck in bed and he heard steps in the house and thought it was a burglar and he called the sheriff from the room extension... three deputies and a sergeant were there in 3 minutes and another deputy and a POPD officer were 30 seconds behind them.
So with what I know about police responses. I'm certain that unless this is in a a very rural area with many long roads that police response was not really that long.
*I've looked up the demographics and staffing levels of Fairborn Ohio and Greene County and compared to Kitsap County, relatively similar, I don't think it really took cops 20 minutes to show. I'm sure eye95 felt that way, but unless he had a stop watch, i think it was a time effect on him thinking someone was in danger. if it really was 20 minutes then Fairborn/Greene County needs to improve their response time.
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