When minutes count... again...

Once again, we see the the false hope of "Call 911".  After agreeing to house sit, a woman was confronted with an intruder.  The intruder was a former tenant of the homeowner, but was no longer allowed to be on the premises.  When threatened by the intruder, the woman calls 911 for assistance.  The police do not show up.  After it becomes evident that the police will not be arriving anytime soon, the woman calls her husband, 20 minutes away.  He drives the 20 minutes armed with what Senator Feinstein thinks is perfectly acceptable for the masses, a baseball bat, to protect his wife.  Unfortunately, this is not ideal, since it is actually an awkward weapon weighted unevenly, would require much practice/training to be used effectively and is not a good choice for indoors/close quarters use.  As such, the much younger intruder ended up taking the bat away from the woman's husband and beating him with it.  Now that an assault has happened, the police arrive in minutes.  Unfortunately, the husband dies hours later from his injuries.  According to the police, the 40 minute delay in response was due to the fact that "they did not know what the intruder would do."

Well people, it would have been nice if you had shown up to find out.  Then we would have one idiot in jail for trespassing, one husband alive and well and a public comfortable in the fact that when called, local law enforcement will respond.  Instead we have a funeral being planned, a widow witnessing the violent death of her husband and a law enforcement organization that looks like they can't be bothered to respond unless someone dies.

I also note that the crack investigative journalism teams failed to find that law enforcement took 40 minutes to respond (according to the dapartment), and then it is only one article, linked above.  I have seen claims on the various comments section about an hour plus between the first call to 911 and the call to the husband, with a time lapse of 3 minutes between the second 911 call and the arrival of law enforcement.  That kind of coincidence smacks of "no response unless violence occurs."   I would wait for the official report on this disparity, but I doubt that will be coming through the Sacramento news organizations...