Why isn’t anyone talking about this? CNN posted a timeline of events at Sandy Hook, and according to the report it took police 20 minutes to respond. That’s an eternity.
At the police station, dispatchers began to take calls from inside the school. Authorities say the first emergency call about the shooting came in at “approximately” 9:30 a.m.
“Sandy Hook school. Caller is indicating she thinks someone is shooting in the building,” a dispatcher told fire and medical personnel, according to 911 tapes.
Police and other first responders arrived on scene about 20 minutes after the first calls.
Via Instapundit, who adds “You can see why police chiefs are calling for arming school personnel.”
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Twenty minutes is a long time in a crisis situation. This is why self protection is essential. Yeah, we all complain about the occasional traffic ticket but the police are our sworn advocates that will give their lives to protect us and some do every day. God bless them, but they just can’t be everywhere all the time and as the old saying goes: When seconds count the police are minutes away.
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@lonelycon If you knew Redding local, you wouldn’t be surprised… rural.
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@MartinHPetry @lonelycon It’s Newtown, not Redding. Sandy Hook school was 2.3 miles away from the police station
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@lonelycon Uhh, I pointed it out but no one picked up on it
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In 2001 my dad collapsed in my kitchen, his heart had stopped and he apparently also had a stroke. I called 911. It took a half an hour for them to arrive. They got his heart beating again but my dad never woke up and was in a coma for 8 days before he died. The doctor said it was because his brain had gone for too long without oxygen – because it took so freaking long for help to arrive. When I lived on Long Island and we had to call 911 for a medical emergency, help arrived in about 120 seconds. I am not kidding. Looks like Newtown’s emergency response is similar to what we have here in NY’s Hudson valley.
At least where I live there had been recent snowfall which might account for the agonizingly long wait, but what’s the excuse in Newtown? Where were the first responders and what took them so long? Even if the entire force isn’t mobilized, they could have sent at least one cop car, ambulance or firetruck immediately while they assembled the rest of the team. WTF?
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Sorry MI but the police are NOT obligated to even endanger themselves to protect anyone…get over it.
PS it took the cops 5 HOURS to respond to a shooting in our neighborhood. Guess they were busy givng parking ticketts,
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Exactly what I’ve been wondering – and suspecting. It took police too long to get there and that resulted in 28 deaths. In Portland police arrived in just over one minute and charged in immediately hence a low causality count. Amazing no one wants to talk about this. Instead let’s ban guns – including that one nut Lemon from CNN who wants to ban ‘automatic’ weapons – which have been banned in the US since the forties!
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I have a friend who lives in the part of Detroit where when you call 911 they are not likely to come at all.
Like the old Public Enemy song says, “They only come when they wanna”… “late 911 wears the late crown” … “911 is a joke in your town” – it certainly is in mine. You’re better off driving to fetch the help your damned self than you are calling for it around here; even the cops & firemen will tell you (off the record) to keep the direct numbers for them handy because it’s faster that way than dealing with the retarded 911 dispatch crap-shoot.
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Am hopeful all the media will dig into the “response time” issue. It may be
likely than call for injuries/heartatack/illness etc takes about 5 minutes….
for fire about 5 to 7 minutes. For family or bar fights maybe about 5 to 10
minutes. But for gun shooting situations the response might be 5 to 15
minutes or more.
This must be made public before our “leaders” make any move on guns
and gun rights.
In Newtown CT there was NO response for the first 27 killed children and
staff who were killed. And their are reports that it took 20 or mor minutes
before people in the school saw or heard any response.
For the shooter at this shooting and many other shooting across our country
The shooter knew he was “safe” to do his bad deed…yes the health experts
will likely agree that many shooters may have an unhealthy mental condition
but they are smart enough to do their deeds in “gun-free-zones” such as
schools, colleges, movies theaters, etc.
By the way its been found that in shooting cituations where gun bearing is
allowed…ther shooter might kill 1, 2, 3 people before an on location civilian
will pull a gun on the shooter. The shooter at that point will drop his gun
and surrender…or he is shot…or he will shoot himself.
By the way, here in Arizona when our representative Gifford was shot and
many folks were shot in the mall…the shooter’s gun went faulty….at that
point 2 or 3 civilians jumped him and brought him to the ground. When the
responder arrived the civilian let the cops take him. Simutaneously, a
young man, who was packing.just came out of a store in the same mall…he
heard the shooting…he ran in the direction of the shooting, his hand was on
his gun…he was close enought to shoot the shooter and observed the
shooter was having trouble loading his gun and saw the 2 or 3 citizens took
control…at that point the shooter took his hand off his gun….he realized
the shooter was now out of commission.
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[...] PD Response to Sandy Hook 911 Call ***20**** MINUTES It took the Newton PD 20 FUCKING MINUTES TO RESPOND TO THE SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY 911 CALL That 's a fucking eternity. No wonder the motherfucker was able to kill so many – that's a [...]
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i’m absolutely outraged if it is true it took the cops twenty minutes to get there. That is totally unacceptable!!! They need to investigate and the police chief should be fired if this turns out to be true. The security in that school was also terrible. he could break glass in a door to get in???? i hope this is a wake up call for the country about school security.
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Unfortunately there are many factors determining response time. Units already being on calls so the closest available is 20 minutes away. Living in rural areas. Units are lokcated in areas where the need is greatest, choosing to live in an isolated area is a double edged sword. Weather also hurts, we broke the axle of a 4 wheel drive ambulance trying to get back the patient’s 1/2 mile driveway with 3 feet of snow. She died of an asthma attack. If you choose to live away from resources you should be trained in CPR and first aid yourself. Our school system now requires kids to be CPR trained. AEDs are getting cheaper and can be bought without a prescription. I’m sorry for your loss. My father died despite being in a hospital when he coded.
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They have woken up, for the moment, at least the anti-gun crowd. Had he run all these victims over with an SUV while they were outside playing at recess, would there be calls to ban all SUV’s. Not likely.
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