Friend of mine posted a picture of the back of a truck on his website.....
Sometimes the Irony is just too true
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contender
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I love it!!!!!!!!
I hope I see it around here. I'd shake that guy's hand!
I hope I see it around here. I'd shake that guy's hand!
Local Sheriff's department response time here is 20 minutes to 'we're brokering a drug deal and can't make it today'. Better be prepared to handle your own emergencies.
First let me say I have the greatest respect for our first responders... EMT's got to my house in less than 2 minutes when I was dying back in 2019 and the fire department was in front of them..... firemen.... how can you criticize someone whose jobit is to run into a burning building and drag your butt out? The police have the job no normal average person would ever want.... the media loves to hype anything negative about law enforcement but every encounter I've had with a LEO they have been professional and polite... even kind to a degree and this includes being arrested in the middle of the night back in '78.
Y'all realize the new protocol for an active shooter call at a school or church or such is the first one there goes in... does not wait for back up or a supervisor.... they go in.
I posted in another thread about attempting to explain the 'delay' time if you call for help.... lady was anti gun and I handed her my cell phone and picked up a rock off the ground and then told her to call 911 and tell them I was fixing to start hitting her with the rock and see how long it took the police to get to her to 'protect' her. She still could not get it.... she would have wet her britches if she knew I was carrying a gun while I explained this to her.
Y'all realize the new protocol for an active shooter call at a school or church or such is the first one there goes in... does not wait for back up or a supervisor.... they go in.
I posted in another thread about attempting to explain the 'delay' time if you call for help.... lady was anti gun and I handed her my cell phone and picked up a rock off the ground and then told her to call 911 and tell them I was fixing to start hitting her with the rock and see how long it took the police to get to her to 'protect' her. She still could not get it.... she would have wet her britches if she knew I was carrying a gun while I explained this to her.
ex13F
Bearcat
Like Phil Robertson said, "Where I live I am 911."
In my experience some departments, even when given an advanced notice that someone is coming to murder you, will show up after your next of kin finds your mutilated body.
They then explain that they aren't responsible for protecting individual citizens but society as a whole. So, you can't take legal action against them.
Our local law enforcement is next day for non emergency calls. For urgent business, one to two hours. I recall calling our Sheriff's office about a burglary. I was told "we don't go there" meaning my village at the edge of the County. The dispatcher suggested I call the State Police, they might be willing to come out. Since then it was gotten better here but we are still very much on our own when it comes to urgent matters. The problem is staffing and the County Commission not wanting to spend the money to hire enough deputies. This was told to me by the current Sheriff and his predecessor.
OMCHamlin
Single-Sixer
If someone breaks into my house, I won't call 911. I won't let him either, it could be a long night…
Brant
Single-Sixer
I have seen deputies pass my home less than a dozen times in25 years. Half of those where do to them being called or serving subpoenas. I would suppose that the dirt road creates a need to wash the cruiser more often. But there are 16 homes on this 6 mile stretch of parish road. They do show up, just not as quickly as you would want if you could not defend yourself. I would guess that there is no way one could be at my home in less than 10 minutes. And that is if he was accidentally passing my road while on the state highway.
Neighbors responded quickly. Things have happened on our little road.
1. Dozens show up to look for missing kids. Found quickly unharmed
2. Phone calls made to parents about kid's driving too fast or reckless
3. Strangers questioned about their business at an unoccupied home…and then followed up on it.
4. Stranger asked directions to my house, neighbor told him to call me for the directions and refused to give them out. I thought it was great, even though I was expecting the person!
Neighbors responded quickly. Things have happened on our little road.
1. Dozens show up to look for missing kids. Found quickly unharmed
2. Phone calls made to parents about kid's driving too fast or reckless
3. Strangers questioned about their business at an unoccupied home…and then followed up on it.
4. Stranger asked directions to my house, neighbor told him to call me for the directions and refused to give them out. I thought it was great, even though I was expecting the person!
I hope the local sheriff is appreciative of what happens when a homeowner needs to defend themselves.
OMCHamlin
Single-Sixer
If I had a strong hunch that the little SOB didn't leave an itinerary, I'm not 100% sure I'd feel the need to trouble the sheriff over trifilings, you know LE IS stretched very thin these days...
Not uncommon in border areas. My street is the border between unincorporated L.A. County and L.A. City. When my parked Jeep was hit by a drunk, called the Sheriff they told me they would pass it on to the California Highway Patrol as they handled this sort of thing in border area. Apparently it is to avoid jurisdictional issues.
On the plus side when I mentioned that the drunk was trying to leave the scene the 911 operator sent the Sheriff just to hold the drunk until the CHP could get there and arrest him.
I am going to alert my buddy in Murrells Inlet to be on the lookout for that truck and to make a point to shake his hand. I can't remember the last time I saw a police car of any sort (Sheriff or State) in my neighborhood. Lots of us 'old farts' live here so an occasional ambulance, but no police.
The problem here is the DA not the Sheriff. You never know what he will do. Half the time they lose the paperwork. Seen it too many times. My attorney is a former Deputy DA and he comments make me leery of the DA here. Also, our District Court presiding Judge is very liberal, of course. Who we need here is old Judge Parker from Ft. Smith, Arkansas.
contender
Ruger Guru
This thread has drifted into a direction where police response is often too slow.
Cause;
More lawbreakers due to the lax court system when it comes to prosecution & confinement & punishment.
With more lawbreakers, the amount of law enforcement officers, by percentage is much further apart. Harder for LEO's to service all the calls necessary due to the percentages.
Rural areas suffer the worst due to the addition of travel time.
The only solution to the problem is to reduce the criminal problem by serious prosecution & punishment. That way the lower number of criminals, results in lower crime, with allows LEO's to work actual crime, and do so quicker.
Cause;
More lawbreakers due to the lax court system when it comes to prosecution & confinement & punishment.
With more lawbreakers, the amount of law enforcement officers, by percentage is much further apart. Harder for LEO's to service all the calls necessary due to the percentages.
Rural areas suffer the worst due to the addition of travel time.
The only solution to the problem is to reduce the criminal problem by serious prosecution & punishment. That way the lower number of criminals, results in lower crime, with allows LEO's to work actual crime, and do so quicker.
miniman
Single-Sixer
more like the current police suck and do not want to work.
I would like to get one of these signs.
