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Post by Gingerbread Man on Oct 2, 2015 11:19:30 GMT
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Post by Browning35 on Oct 2, 2015 19:25:25 GMT
Interesting article about personal initiative.
We in the West like to think that much of this wouldn't apply to us as far as the response of Police/Fire/EMS or Military (if large enough), but in the midst of a really wide scale natural disaster or an unprecedented terrorist attack where everything is effected it would resemble us a little.
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Post by LowKey on Oct 2, 2015 19:38:55 GMT
Interesting article about personal initiative. We in the West like to think that much of this wouldn't apply to us as far as the response of Police/Fire/EMS or Military (if large enough), but in the midst of a really wide scale natural disaster or an unprecedented terrorist attack where everything is effected it would resemble us a little. Hell, it wouldn't take a natural disaster. Just go to a smaller community, one that isn't considered a metropolis. Okay, maybe the local LEO's will have more stones and take risks for their citizenry more so than happened in Kenya, but smaller towns won't have the resources to respond int he time frame that folks on the scene will require. In the end, it always comes down to you being able to defend yourself and your loved ones. You can't outsource that. |
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Post by Browning35 on Oct 2, 2015 22:40:11 GMT
In the end, it always comes down to you being able to defend yourself and your loved ones. You can't outsource that. True that. On part of it I was meaning an incident so large that they wouldn't even bother responding at all, just waited til it was over and then having the police loot the place the way they did in Kenya. In the US there have been disasters where it was impossible to call for help or where the response was delayed a great deal, but the vast majority of the time someone shows up. That's starting to not be the case all the time though. In some cities like Detroit major felony calls are sometimes stuck on the back burner when they shouldn't be because of personnel shortages and call volume and I remember several months ago it was news that a lady was calling to report that her ex-boyfriend was trying to break in, the dispatcher on the line didn't have anyone to send (some break down in mutual aid contracts for police and the city had let most of the cops go), but that's more thought to be a rarity. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2329375/Woman-choked-raped-abusive-ex-boyfriend-dispatcher-informs-cops-help--instead-tells-victim-just-ask-attacker-leave.htmlwww.wxyz.com/news/detroiters-wait-for-six-hours-for-police-to-respond-to-desperate-calls-to-911I imagine if there were four guys with automatic weapons yelling ' Aloha Snackbar' and plugging Infidel customers at the $10 burger joint in the Mall of America someone would likely respond in a more timely manner though. |
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