Why do people think dialing 911 will save them?

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Watching this documentary on some mass shootings and these people out here calling 911 when they should be running and getting up out of there :smh:


Real talk. 911 is a joke especially if you're in a major city like NYC. On two ocassions I dialed 911 and the operators had terrible communication skills asking dumb questions. To make things worse, help didnt come till 45 minutes later. If my life was on the line I would have been done.
 
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Watching this documentary on some mass shootings and these people out here calling 911 when they should be running and getting up out of there :smh:


Real talk. 911 is a joke especially if you're in a major city like NYC. On two ocassions I dialed 911 and the operators had terrible communication skills asking dumb questions. To make things worse, help didnt come till 45 minutes later. If my life was on the line I would have been done.
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Scary Movie did a joke where the main chick called 911 and said she was a white woman in danger.

They came 30 seconds later.
 
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Because you're conditioned from a young age to see them as your protector from the big scary crimunuhz.

You learn when you're older that they're really not... In no way, shape, or form.
 
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I feel where u coming from. I cant think of a single instance where i would call 911. Unless if for the amberlamps and thats only cuz i finally got health insurance.
 
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Watching this documentary on some mass shootings and these people out here calling 911 when they should be running and getting up out of there :smh:


Real talk. 911 is a joke especially if you're in a major city like NYC. On two ocassions I dialed 911 and the operators had terrible communication skills asking dumb questions. To make things worse, help didnt come till 45 minutes later. If my life was on the line I would have been done.
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Maybe it took 45 mins cause your life wasn't on the line? You cat got stuck in a tree or something?
 
According to American Police Beat, the average response time for an emergency call is 10 minutes. Atlanta has the worst response time with 11 to 12 minutes and Nashville comes in at a lightning speed of 9 minutes.

So probably like 15 minutes in reality.

Everyone knows 911 is not to prevent crime, but rather get the wheels churning on the next steps after a crime happens. Only common sense prevents crime (some crimes).
 
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http://mic.com/articles/114046/you-...-a-problem-but-it-is-these-guys-are-fixing-it


A Harvard-based startup just launched a Kickstarter that might save your life someday.

It turns out 911, one of the best-known and widely used emergency systems in the country, is, in some ways, deeply flawed. RapidSOS, a team of 15 including people from MIT and Harvard, has developed a product that would upgrade the nation's emergency hotline using your smartphone. An app they've created sends dispatch centers all your necessary rescue information at the push of a button, eliminating the need for long explanations when calling for help. The $60,000 RapidSOS hopes to raise is to build physical, Bluetooth-connectable panic-button wearables, like a ring to alert help subtly in a sexual assault scenario, or a necklace for elderly people who live by themselves.

"The people who work in the dispatch community are heroes in what they do," RapidSOS co-founder Michael Martin told Mic. "The environment is really intense and we've been handicapping them with this dated infrastructure. We can do better from a technological standpoint, and that's what we're focused on doing."

The problem: When you call 911 from a landline, the dispatch computer receives and displays your phone number, the name it's registered to and the address it's coming from. But if you call from a mobile phone, the address is, if anything, that of the nearest cell tower. According to the Federal Communications Commission, 73% of 911 calls come in from cell phones.

If Martin were to call 911 from where he was sitting on the Harvard campus, it wouldn't go to the local 911 dispatch center in Cambridge. It would go to the center in Framingham, Massachusetts, where every other call in the state goes. After describing his situation and location, he'd be transferred to the local Cambridge dispatch, where he'd explain the problem — and the location — again.

"The reality is, if there's any kind of emergency where the caller doesn't know precisely where they're located, it's impossible for 911 to have a dispatchable address," Martin said. "Meaning even today, 911 can't send a car to a specific house."

Additionally, some 911 call centers across the country are using old, sometimes outdated maps, according to an NBC News report. Without proper locating technology and information, dispatchers can't find as many as 60% of 911 wireless callers.
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i've been seeing a lot of trouble with 911 dispatchers as of late...here are a couple of headlines...

Indiana 911 Dispatcher Placed on Leave After Telling Caller No Ambulances Available
http://abcnews.go.com/US/indiana-911-dispatcher-leave-telling-caller-ambulances/story?id=32938961

Ayuda? 911 dispatcher under investigation for hanging up on Spanish-speaking callers
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/ne...stigation-for-hanging-up-on-spanish-speaking/

Dispatcher to 911 caller: 'Deal with it yourself'
http://www.hlntv.com/video/2015/07/28/teen-shot-dispatcher-hangs-911-call

plus all the info that they don't pass on like in tamir rice's case about it being a fake gun...that got that young boy killed...
 
Op is not entirely wrong tho it's the same concept when dealing with police a lot of ppl have been brainwashed in to automatically calling the police to protect them when in reality it's your responsibility to protect yourself. Externalization of power.
 
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